CLINICAURBANA

In progress → Shrine square → As the territory got parcelled into houses-sheds-plots connected by busy road infrastructures, the relationship between the sanctuary and the context has weakened. A rigorous essential geometry contrasts this geography and generates the project elements. The intervention is therefore a lever for reorganising and reinforcing the found assets. The agricultural field is redrawn from the surface, a hard monochrome plane partitioned by orthogo-nal traces on the ground, similar to the straight lines of a Cartesian diagram. The intersections be-tween the straight lines locate vertical elements, conceived as visual signals perceivable from the car space. Towards the street, a forest of tubes punctuates the landscape during daylight and it il-luminates it at night. Towards the centre of the surface, they decrease and are alternated with the rows of black poplar trees that shade the garden. The straight lines also define sectors that frame complex objects, acting as degrees of freedom of the plane: seats, play and sport facilities, tempo-rary configurations of stages, stands, tables and other heterogeneous appearances. The edge bor-dering the countryside terminates with a long wall, sort of a vertical fold of the surface. The narrative of the “excellence”, made of icons that are often deprived of meaning and commer-cialised, is flanked by a sensitive journey through the Veneto province. This new narrative records stories and deeds that nourish other images, while looking for new forms of dialogue with the territo-ry, capable of reactivating relations and alternative micro-centralities.
Fiamme Gialle bivuac
VDM Attic
→ In progress → Responsive → The tensions of the post-war reconstruction process are released in this place. Beside the rail yard stands a group of residential and manufacture-related buildings, characterised by unauthorised development, odd parcelling, invasive infrastructure and heavy traffic. The client intends to extend a dwelling in order to take advantage of the regional law that allows a volume increase and of the tax incentives for building renovations. The chosen strategy doesn’t oppose the anti-design criterion that guided the development of this part of the city, it goes along with it instead. The addition is juxtaposed to the existing building, its materials and construction techniques reveal its autonomy. A double perimeter articulates the two-level plan with a solarium on the roof. The outer expanded metal perimeter traces the footprint of a demolished volume. Its full-height extrusion defines the building’s elevations and an ambiguous space – neither inside nor outside – conceived as an expansion of the domestic rooms, which nevertheless doesn’t count as built volume. The inner perimeter follows an oblique line generated by the minimum lawful distance from the opposite house’s façade. This condition distorts the spaces and establishes their use. Responsive is architecture adapting to the urban apparatus.
→ In progress → Le Bernarde → The ancient barn is the subject of a dimensional and photographic survey. On the inside, the eye is drawn to the provisional elements that limit the structural failures. The design concept moves from here. The new structure is a concrete core that contains the staircase and the installations, and on which the floors supported by perimeter steel pillars are anchored. At the intersections with the existing timber structure the two systems, although substantially interdependent, collide and clash. The tension extends to the conflict between spaces, reconstruction of an internal landscape bent by a non-linear conception of time.
→ In progress → House on Pedestal → Clinicaurbana is appointed to design a detached house in Treviso. A precarious edifice sits on the site: the restoration intervention all but match the cost of a new building. The planning regulations dictate that the new architecture retraces the footprint of the previous house. At the ground floor, the porous basement acts like a pedestal. The white and smooth smaller volume sits on top of it, covered by an aluminium pitched roof. This distinction marks an inversion and a future scenery. The first floor hosts the living area: the authorised volume reduction allows to save on construction costs and to design a vast terrace for magnifying the view on the nearby river. The access system and the vertical connections allow for the two levels to become independent, foreseeing a future division into two separate dwellings.
→ In Progress → The Fence → Clinicaurbana is appointed to design a detached house in Treviso. The lot sits within a densely built-up area that raises issues of overlooking and privacy. The design strategy envisages to divide the site into three sectors, three strips that enclose different activities, public and private landscapes. The playground is a hard platform that opens towards the neighbourhood and the street; it serves as pedestrian and vehicle access as well as play area. The forest is a garden where the dense vegetation obstructs the view of the surroundings, a place in which to retreat. Between these two sectors, a third strip constitutes the dwelling: the concrete wall constructs a sequence of interior spaces and courtyards, rooms opening onto the outside and rooms open towards the sky. Each domestic room and each sector perceives different horizons as defined by the wall. Upon it stands the aluminium volume, the reduction of its openings marking the sleeping areas.
Chisel strokes
Reliquiarium
Via delle absidi n° 13
Cultural centre in Rome
Cultural centre in Cuneo
Lindarosa
Reflex blue
Natalina
Caliera
MET
Elisa
Extra Brut
Double-face
Tommy’s House
Locanda San Lorenzo
The Accountant’s House
Lobster Offices
Trainspotter
Casera Gianin
Gianin House
WAVE 2013
Elle
Eden Theatre Cafe
Kitchenhouse
Cyano and Red are Complementary Colours
Fonk
Tramoggia
Luca’s House
Clinicaurbana
Tabià in Coi