projects for interior and outdoor space
Only 48 hours after the successful ONLYWOOD (the COMVERT Headquarter Grand Opening Party) we went back to Casacomvert for the first skate-session after the completion of the Bastard Bowl, the first skateable spaceship ever landed on earth. It was not surprising to find out that there was a martian skating upthere!
Tags: Bastard Bowl, Bastard Store, Milan, Onlywood, Refurbishment, Skateboarding, Wood
We have previously posted here few drawings and images of our first project for a ‘built from scratch’ private house near Piacenza, Italy. The 140 sqm villa is going to be inserted in a 4 hectares hilly terrain partly occupied by our client’s vineyards. Everybody knows that the end of september is the right time for the harvest… and since we have started to work on site a couple of months ago, we thought this was a good time to publish a sequence of the way we have progressed in ‘filling our bucket’.
Tags: Bricks, New construction, Piacenza, Residential
A year ago we had the great opportunity to be introduced to a famous painter. He needed help to transform an old industrial space into his new, equipped, atelier. We took the task very seriously: we flew over to visit the building and receive his brief, we set up a deadline and we even started a language course to facilitate the communication with our new ‘potential’ client.
We worked intensively and we presented a consistent design proposal with architectural drawings, diagrams, collages and a 1:50 scale model.
After a neverending wait for a longed-for phone call that has never arrived, we have now decided that this is another lost project.
This painful achievement enables us to publish, after more than a year, the outcome of our work.
Places, names and details about this project are deliberately omitted in order to preserve the privacy of our ‘missed’ client…
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.
Tags: Bricks, New construction, Piacenza, Residential
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
Tags: Bastard Bowl, casacomvert, Milan, Skateboarding, Woodstudiometrico 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
Tags: Adriatic Coast, Ascoli, Competition, Higway, Urban planning
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…
Tags: Adriatic Coast, Ascoli, Competition, Higway, Urban planning
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!
Tags: Bastard Bowl, Bastard Store, Milan, Office, Onlywood, Refurbishment, Skateboarding, WoodDiego 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.
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.
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!
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.
