RESIDENTIAL ARCHEOLOGY Conservation and Reuse by ALESSANDRA BETTOLO |
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| DESIGN NAME: RESIDENTIAL ARCHEOLOGY PRIMARY FUNCTION: Conservation and Reuse INSPIRATION: The inspiration comes from the history of the place: a Monastery, a rural complex with sense of community. The project aims to create a bond between past and present inserting new prefabricated volumes into the ancient existing buildings. Here Memory and Contemporaneity cohabit without competing, but enhancing each other. Two different architectures coming together to form something greater than the two with passages, courtyards, outdoor living rooms giving the residents a vibrant social life. UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The project is the reuse of ancient historic buildings in ruin to make 5 contemporary residences. The only possible intervention after a careful investigation, was to block the deterioration with suitable consolidation and design sleek prefabricated volumes inserted in the existing, leaving between them, outdoor interstitial spaces for a social life. A continuous relationship between memory and contemporaneity for the modern living of the 21st century avoiding ancient rural buildings to disappear. OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: Residential Archeology could be the Pilot project to promote a new way of designing spaces to live, to work, to exhibit, taking advantage of all those existing and abandoned buildings scattered throughout the territory. PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The rural complex is located in the Tuscany countryside, between Lucca and Pisa. The design started at the beginning of 2012 but it hasn’t been built yet due to client’s lack of funds. The Geological and Engineering report had positive result, the building department of the area gave its pre approval. The project Residence Archeology will be submitted to the DOB for final approval when the funds will become available. FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Architecture, Building and Structure Design |
PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: The realization technology is prefabrication, SIP system, Structural Insulated Panels, to reduce costs and reach very high standards. The vernacular elements are kept alive giving a sense of connection with natural materials, timber, glass and fiber cement boards for the outer casing of the new building. The Interiors have contemporary feeling using plywood surfaces and fluid open plan. All the materials are kept in their most natural form, where glass, concrete and plywood contrasts against the roughened of the ancient walls. The consolidation system is action tying in the higher parts of the existing walls. To bring the needed light to the plan there are skylights, glazed walls and the creation of passages, yards between old and new. SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: The building complex area is 600sqm and a volume of 3,660cubicmeters. Includes 5 single family houses, 100sqm to 155sqm, gym, spa hammam, open air cooling pool with tall, old walls, roof terrace garden for the residents, central courtyard separating the world outside. The Interiors are functional, the use of plywood adds warmth, simplicity, elegance. Designed using bio architecture materials and techniques, natural ventilation. Glass walls to enjoy the memory textures etched into ancient walls. TAGS: conservation, reuse, contemporary architecture, prefabrication, memory, natural materials, bioarchitecture RESEARCH ABSTRACT: The site history was orally transmitted by parents and grandparents. The buildings use destination as farmers' houses or for agriculture, were visible on the general map of the big estate. All data collection was through observation and people of the Village, whom ancestors inhabited the Rural Complex and to the Owner who still lives in the ancient family Villa. This gave the idea to fill the old empty boxes with modern boxes becoming a unique residential place to trigger curiosity and surprise. CHALLENGE: The challenge was because of first the existing complex subjection to planning rules and listing restrictions, second a site with constraints and the modern building code for healthy environments. The objective was to retain and reuse what was left, locking it at the present stage. Try to rebuild what it was, felt pretentious and fake. Residential Archeology solved the problem with an unusual solution, finding the balance between history, listing laws, health and functional modern residences. ADDED DATE: 2016-02-26 23:55:54 TEAM MEMBERS (1) : IMAGE CREDITS: credits alessandra bettolo |
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NAME: Ab atelier of architecture+design PROFILE: Ab atelier of architecture+design was founded by Alessandra Bettolo in New York in 2009, now is located in London. The Atelier is a nomadic, international, creative laboratory of ideas and projects from architecture to product design, to interior and visual design. |
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Residential Archeology Conservation and Reuse by Alessandra Bettolo is Runner-up for A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Category, 2015 - 2016.· Press Members: Login or Register to request an exclusive interview with ALESSANDRA BETTOLO. · Click here to register inorder to view the profile and other works by ALESSANDRA BETTOLO. |
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