studiometrico

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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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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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 Ing. Mario Cavallé 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, Gorlich 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!