studiometrico

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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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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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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‘Cast Concrete Insanity – 12,000 German bunkers along the coast’ is the title of The Atlantic Wall Linear Museum exhibition second appearance, that will take place at the Architekturzentrum Wien from September 14 till October 09, 2006. The Opening will be on Wednesday, September 13, 2006, 07:00 pm.

[ Fyrvej, Hirtshals. Denmark. Photograph: © Guido Guidi - 2005]

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cinema istria is an old cinema of 1.100 seats distributed on two levels, with a volume of 6.600 cubic meters and an overall floor area of 1.300 square meters. its bearing structure constitutes in a series of reinforced concrete arches supporting the curved roof. a 350 sqm adjecting mezzanine features a series of longitudinal beams bounded to the curved wall opposite of the screen and supported by columns. the cinema, built in the 40’s according to the design of arch. mario cavallè and currently occupied by a car dealer, will be refurbished by studiometrico with great care for its original forms and will be used by its future inhabitants as a working place and a recreational space.

[source: Mario Cavallé, Tecnica delle costruzioni di Cinema e Teatri, Görlich Editore, Milano 1958]

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!

bad-architects.network’s bad-proposal for
the O.I.C. Headquarters competition in
Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has not been
selected for the 2nd phase.
10 anonymous teams will now develop their
10 anonymous projects further…
we are of course very sad for our defeat, but
happy to publish the result of our net-work.

project-team:
anders melsom, oslo (BAD-OSL)
damien guiot, lille (BAD-LIL)
kathrine nyhus, oslo (BAD-OSL)
lorenzo bini, milan (BAD-MIL)
qaul burgstaller, innsbruck (BAD-INN)
ursula faix, innsbruck (BAD-INN)

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bad-architects.network just delivered a bad-entry for
the Organisation of the Islamic Conference Headquarters
architecture competition in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
1st phase results will be announced on the 8th of March 2006

project-team:
anders melsom, oslo (BAD-OSL)
damien guiot, lille (BAD-LIL)
kathrine nyhus, oslo (BAD-OSL)
lorenzo bini, milan (BAD-MIL)
qaul burgstaller, innsbruck (BAD-INN)
ursula faix, innsbruck (BAD-INN)

[advertisment in dubai, 2006, pics by ursula faix]

a small apartment by a big magnolia designed
by studiometrico for a milanese girlfriend is
ready to be colonized by furnitures… and friends

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