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Project • By Kaleido Studio StP • Hotels
Cool Dreams Ortigia
Located in the historic center of Ortigia, Cool Dreams occupies part of Palazzo Gargallo di San Gaetanello, a fifteenth-century building acquired by the Gargallo family in the second half of the eighteenth century and restored by architect Francesco Fichera in the early twentieth century. Rather than treating Ortigia as a picturesque backdrop, the project considers its layered urban fabric, local stone, changing light and relationship with the sea as the primary sources of the design.
Developed by Kaleido Studio StP, the intervention rejects both the reconstruction of an idealized original state and the complete removal of the interiors behind a preserved historic façade. Its central principle was to adapt the hospitality program to... More
Project • By andrea dragoni architetto • Cemeteries
Extension of Valfabbrica cemetery
The enlargement of cemetery in Valfabbrica, an ancient city of medieval origin located in Umbria, Italy, is a project system closes towards the exterior and opens towards the interior of the existing complex, mediating the tombs with a loggia punctuated by large diameter columns, so as to make them perceived as a spatial device capable of functioning as a threshold that defines the sacredness of space.
Alessandra Chemollo
Alessandra Chemollo
Alessandra Chemollo
At the center of the system there is a space of relationship between the outside and the inside, a sort of chapel of the sacred landscape where you can pause, meditate and become aware of the archaic values of nature. In this building the natural light bec... More