A rectangular floor plan of the building was developed, arranged planimetrically with the longest side parallel to Bossi Street, so that the volume by perspective effect, is perceived more slender and streamlined.
Leggi tuttoThe new volume is compact to optimize the energy aspects, and is arranged in the lot following the solar diagram of the place, along the north/south heliothermal axis, to optimize the contribution of natural light on the facades, but at the same time to minimize the shadows reported on the surrounding buildings. The building facades have with respect to their solar exposure, a different transparency gradient: 20%, 50% and 80%.
During the day more natural light in the living rooms and less in the rooms, and an inverted effect at night, with artificial light characterizing the image.
To emphasize the perceptual effect of the building, the cladding of the blind parts also has a color gradient, fading from darker in the north to lighter in the south.
The ground-floor building rests on pilotis and is hollowed out (a citation to the rationalist architecture that characterized the area), leaving maximum horizontal transparency; minimal footprint on the ground and maximum surface area for greenery.
Prominent stringcourses, punctuate and fragment the volume vertically protecting the building from direct sunlight, and at the same time as light catchers, reflect natural light inside the rooms The same stringcourses generate the terraces on the various levels. On the top floor a “suspended” garden completes and dissolves the volume
An intervention to upgrade the area, with an architecture that is an expression of a way of living more attentive to the environment, its resources and people.
