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After a neverending year of sketches, design, writings, phone calls, meetings, documents and contracts, next week studiometrico is going to go on site with its very first ‘built from scratch’ project. A 140 sqm private house will be located on a hilly terrain nearby Piacenza (70 km south of Milan) and inserted within a group of existing buildings and rural facilities. The house has been designed for a mature couple that loves nature, sustainable energy, wine and… bricks. The house should be completed before summer 2009 and the project should then continue with the realization of a new wine cellar. We are very happy to publish some images and drawings of this project.

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Few months after their move into their new home, Those Lazy Italians at Bastard, with the help and guidance of Marco Clozza (a.k.a. The Engineer), are eventually busy with the construction of the Bastard Bowl, their spectacular and hazardous ultimate recreative device. Daily updates of the construction works are available here.

See also previous posts about this project:

Refurbishing a Cinema theater in Milan

Refurbishing a Cinema theater in Milan | 2

Refurbishing a Cinema theater in Milan | 3

Casacomvert!

studiometrico has won BAM’s FIRST PRIZE ! BAM is an invited idea competition for the re-use of some abandoned historical centers on the Italian Adriatic Coast.  After some painful defeats, this is the first time for us to win an Architecture Competition! Next Sunday, the 27 of April, we will be awarded at the Architecture School of Ascoli Piceno.

The Bam Team:

Lorenzo Bini
Francesca Murialdo
Valentina Cocco
Erica Borsa

Other related posts: BAM | Idea competition

On the 3rd of April studiometrico submitted a design proposal for BAM, an invited idea competition for the re-use of three historical centers along the italian Adriatic Coast. Studiometrico was asked by the Architecture School of Ascoli Piceno, University of Camerino to produce an Architectural Manifesto describing how the half-abandoned town of Marano could be revitalised. In our proposal Marano is transformed into a 13 hectares Retail Park at exclusive use of the A14 highway that stretches along the Italian East Coast. The results of the competition should be made public before the end of April…

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We are finally able to post an ‘almost’ complete set of pictures and drawings concerning a project that has kept us busy for more than one year: The new home of Comvert s.r.l, the italian clothing company that produces and distributes Bastard. Few years ago Comvert asked studiometrico to look for a location for its new headquarter in Milan; the place should have been large enough to host offices for 15-20 people, services, a big storage for their products and an indoor skatebowl for employees, team riders and friends. In spring 2005 we eventually found a Cinema theater from the 50’s that really suited Comvert needs and few months ago - after the conclusion of the refurbishment works - the company has moved into its new home: Casacomvert!

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Diego Perrone is one of the 4 artists whose work is shown at MAMbo, the Museum of Modern Art of Bologna, in the ‘Step 2‘ exhibition that has opened on the 1st of December. studiometrico has collaborated with Diego giving an architectural consultancy for the realisation of a 20 m long ramp where 2 sculptures and one video are placed in a precise sequence: ‘La mamma di Boccioni in ambulanza e la fusione della campanaa’. The pink coloured ramp occupies the main exhibition space of the museum and is built in mdf wood panels supported by 100 steel legs.

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Before the summer we have been intensivly working on a project for a small private art gallery in a secret place nearby Milan, Italy… then our mysterious client has just vanished.

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We publish here some new pictures showing progress of the Cinema Istria building site. A new structure of terraced platforms cladded with larch wood panels will soon host the headquarter office spaces. The old floor of the mezzanine has been sanded, old paint has been removed and the pine planks have been taken to life again. Electrical, heating and cooling installations are almost completed and soon furnitures and finishings will complete the works. We look forward to see (and show) the end of it!

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Since last February the works on this small house with a beautiful panorama and some hidden caves have been (slowly) developing through the interior finishing and installation phase. Studiometrico is eventualy about to leave the house in the hands of its new inhabitants. Here are some among the last ‘un-furnished’ and ‘un-inhabited’ pictures we have been shooting this month.

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After a couple of months of site works we publish here few pictures of the most ambitious of our current projects: converting a 1.300 sqm Cinema Theater into an unconventional office space for a young Milan-based clothing company. Architecture works and installations should be concluded within a month and the new headquarter should be available for its inhabitants by the summer. We’ll be able to tell and show more about this project as the building site progress.

[pic by: Nicolò Dragoni]

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Since last Summer studiometrico is busy demolishing and re-constructing a private house on the countryside North of Rome. The project development started in 2005 and has been previously posted with the title House with garden and caves. Since works completion is getting close, we make here available few pictures showing the house before, through and after its troubled transformation.

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The Atlantic Wall Linear Museum Exhibition has opened at the Architekturzentrum Wien on the 13 of September 2006. ‘Cast Concrete Insanity – 12,000 German bunkers along the coast’ (this is the new title of the exhibition) has been set up with good care by the curators and its content has been very well recieved by a number of journalists and visitors. There seemed to be a diffused wish between the participants that the research held by the DPA of the Politecnico di Milano shall become a starting point for further discussions on the value of this European ‘forbidden’ heritage…

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