studiometrico

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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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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After a long trip from Bangalore, India to the North-East of Italy, the Lace Fence Pergola has reached its final destination! Designed by Joep Verhoeven from Demakersvan, is the very first lace fence that is 100% made in India. Few days ago the structure has been delivered and installed on the site it has been conceived for. The Pergola is now part of a 7.500 sqm terrain that studiometrico is transforming step by step into a very special landscape with many features to discover… See more pictures of the mountage of the Pergola here.

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In April 2005 we published a post about a series of gardens that studiometrico has designed in the North East of Italy for a private client. The project is dealing with the organisation of the outdoor spaces surrounding a rural house from the 15th century that has been renovated by vudafieri-partners, a Milan based architectural firm with a long time collaboration with studiometrico. The gardens are going to be completed in Spring 2008 and will feature a number of art installations that are part of the private collection of the owner. Since we have been as busy as silent with this project, we post here some recent pictures of the site works.

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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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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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Interni magazine’s issue of September 2006 features an article about the private house of Catherine Vautrin and Tiziano Vudafieri in Milan. Designed by Tiziano Vudafieri, the house is articulated around a small, shady, green patio that was conceived in collaboration with Lorenzo Bini from Studiometrico and Gianluca Lugli. We publish here few images of the house, the garden (which we previously named ‘A well as a patio’) and the courtyard.

The Patio
[pic: Santi Caleca, 2006]

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studiometrico has presented last week a first proposal for a private garden in shanghai, china. the project is an intervention on a ‘problematic’ exhisting environment: a house already exists and a garden has been already layed out by unknown designers, but since the character of both is not considered satisfying by the owner, vudafieri partners and studiometrico have been called up to collaborate (once again) to produce new concepts for the interior and the outdoor spaces. the proposal has been well received and, according to the scheduled timeline, works should be completed by next chinese new year!

The DPA of the Politecnico of Milan (I), with the GRAI of the
Ecole d’Architecture de Versailles (F) and the Raymond Lemaire
International Centre for Conservation in Leuven (B), has
managed a research within the EU programme Culture 2004
concerning the Atlantic Wall, the defence line built by German
occupation forces between 1939 and 1944 along the coasts of
France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Norway.
More than 12.000 concrete bunkers were built, an impressive
number for cost and labour involved.
The project underlines the architectural and cultural value of an
unique transnational heritage, preserving a shared memory on
the European soil.
An heritage to be safeguarded by the construction of the
Atlantic Wall Linear Museum.

The Atlantic Wall Linear Museum exhibition, designed by
studiometrico has been held at the Politecnico di Milano
between 27 october and 11 november 2005.

1 - walkable map

2 - archive drawers

3 - floating tablets

4 - along the wall

photographs by Sabrina Ragucci

studiometrico has been among the partecipants
in the international competition living in milan/2.
our project intention was to focus on the organization
of a suburban area in milan, to develop a simple, clear,
low cost apartment building, and to describe a variety
of places (from private to public) for many activities
for future residents and neighbours. obviously not very
inspired by our proposal, the jury has then assigned five
prices to other five entries that you can check out, and
maybe comment on the very useful europaconcorsi site

studiometrico proposal for the ‘royal canal
linear park competition’ originated from the
‘reading of the place’ at a local level and from
an accurate overview of the context.

the competition area was strongly marked by
the presence of railway infrastructural lines
that, although partially dismissed, cut through
the urban fabric, turning any structured planning
development into a knotty question. the site
didn’t have the dimensions and the morphology
to become a coherent and generous linear park:
the stretch of land was fragmented the banks were
too narrow and the landscape was too congestioned.
our proposal moved toward theconcept of a more
articulated and equipped ‘public space’. an urban
system that could interact react and dialogue both
to the city pattern and the infrastructural barriers;
a green promenade for the residents and for the
entire dublin population. we believe our project
met the competition requirements in terms of
environmental regeneration but also overcame
the given issues by taking a strong position that
was able to ‘discuss’ while responding.

after a huge delay the jury shortlisted only
four projects to join stage two. studiometrico
proposal has been excluded and it will take
another three or four months (or more ?)
before the assessors report publication (!).
we are as sad for the result as disappointed
for the way the competition has been managed.
nevertheless we are happy to publish the content
of our entry and perhaps get valid net feedback.