Alluminium

Casa ZM is an essential structure with minimalist lines, sorrounded by the Paduan countryside. Alessandra Bello Alessandra Bello Alessandra Bello Behind a wall shielding its privacy, slowly reveals the house, whose natural materials, demarcated in color, allow the architecture to become part of the landscape. Alessandra Bello Alessandra Bello The exterior functions, covered by canopies, are articulated around the central stucture of the villa, in which the interior rooms are enclosed.  Alessandra Bello Alessandra Bello A brighter living area houses minimalist solutions to set off the bold character of the materials chosen: wood, stone and aluminum repeated internally and externally to create a cont... More

House LV was born from the desire to enhance matter and volume. Located in a quiet environment in the province of Venice, the structure consists of a single double-storey volume with contrasting materials.  Silvia Possamai Silvia Possamai From a compositional point of view, there is a relationship between the reinforced concrete used in the porch - a material interpreter of contemporaneity - and the irregular brick cladding - symbolizing the building technology of the place and the history of the house - enhancing the perimeter walls of the house. Silvia Possamai Silvia Possamai Casa LV aims to be a "machine à habiter" where it is possible to grasp the rhythm of time through the continuous change of natura... More

In the recent years in Milan has arisen the need to recover buildings that are no longer efficient or adequate, totally altering the original plant. Recovering what already exists by improving their environmental performance with retrofitting actions is a sustainable choice because it saves the territory, which is a non-renewable and very limited resource.In these terms, the film illustrates two projects by the Milan Studio Park Associati. La SerenissimaThis building, designed in 1962 for Campari firm by the Soncini brothers could have been considered modern and technologically advanced for its time. Actually, in the contemporary condition, many of its aspects had however proved to be costly and inefficient from an energy saving point... More

The current trend in The Netherlands is to recycle existing buildings rather than to replace them. In the old city of Leiden Mirck Architecture has designed such a rejuvenation for a 15th century landmark canal house. In the 1960s the building’s interior was effectively destroyed, which sad event opened interesting perspectives for the building’s redevelopment. The building is now used as an Annex by the International Tax Center Leiden, a postgraduate studies that is housed in the neighboring mansion at Rapenburg 65.The Rapenburg 63 Annex houses a fully equipped modern lecture theatre with 74 seats, a student lounge, and student studios along with a joint living room annex kitchen that overlooks the splendid garden at the backside of the bu... More

 Make-up of a building of the 60s used as a business for the sale and exhibition of furniture and furnishings. Simple vertical and horizontal lines become the main theme of this restructuring, alternating in a game of verticality and linearity that brings the building back to life with a non-invasive restyling. The wide front wall with facing bricks remains almost unaltered from the intervention, on which large white sun bricks rise up, accentuating the verticality concealing the existing openings without eliminating the light. The upper part binds to the underlying one thanks to vertical elements in painted aluminum that follow the lines, and then develop horizontally in the gray base, highlighting the large showroom windows, joined t... More