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Project
Client
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Gross Floor Area
Structural Design
Environmental Design
Services Design
The primary goal of the project is to give a general, unique and broad vision of the intervention, researching a balance between public and private spaces, green and mineral areas, built volumes and outdoor spaces.
Starting from the idea of cooperation and cultural exchange between researchers, the project outlined a hierarchy between public spaces with different functions and dimensions.
For that reason, the alternation between green and paved areas creates a sequence of open work rooms, which can be also used for public events.
The project is based on the idea of a complex divided into 3 blocks with 5 or 6 floors, on the North-South axis to gain the best view through the seaside.
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The buildings were modelled with a dynamic, asymmetric and fluid shape, which follows the profile of the soil, interacting with the natural context.
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To cover the buildings and to protect the central square from the extreme summer heat, the team devised a light shading envelope made of photovoltaic modules, which unifies the whole complex.
The polished and hydrodynamic shape of the building is reminiscent of a couple of Mediterranean fishes, a metaphor which combines several characteristics of the tradition and of the landscape with a contemporary project.
As the matter of fact, the entire cover, made of south oriented PV modules, connects the main Boulevard level and the surrounding hills.