https://llumaa.com LLUMAA Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:39:20 +0000 https://llumaa.com en https://llumaa.com/Office Tue, 05 Dec 2023 13:47:47 +0000 LLUMAA https://llumaa.com/Office LLUMAA is an architecture and urban planning practice founded by Luca Luini, Riccardo Masiero, Lorenza Sartori.
The studio operates at the intersection of architectural design, urban research, and editorial experimentation.
LLUMAA aims to critically and pragmatically engage with the surrounding physical, cultural, and social environment, developing projects that react to context and contemporary challenges. <img width="279" height="278" width_o="279" height_o="278" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a5e5cea57a5443d611cfb51165bafc6f3a44e4df0cb26d23614e4b5cbd5073d/Senza-titolo-2.gif" data-mid="209552719" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/279/i/8a5e5cea57a5443d611cfb51165bafc6f3a44e4df0cb26d23614e4b5cbd5073d/Senza-titolo-2.gif" /> <img width="1890" height="2835" width_o="1890" height_o="2835" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3f6691482026e4a828f8e7d4827af11de35fff91fcc827977cf8d76a9a5f99af/LLUMAA_portrait.jpg" data-mid="247136157" border="0" data-scale="32" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3f6691482026e4a828f8e7d4827af11de35fff91fcc827977cf8d76a9a5f99af/LLUMAA_portrait.jpg" /> Team Luca LuiniRiccardo Masiero Lorenza Sartori Collaboration Giulia Pisoni Federico Paparella Riccardo Piconi Andrea Curti Morgana Bonanni Alessandro Bongiovanni Ludovica Borzì https://llumaa.com/Home Thu, 10 Feb 2022 13:36:06 +0000 LLUMAA https://llumaa.com/Home <img width="6240" height="4160" width_o="6240" height_o="4160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/caf43c6a04247416ac3fa010ebde11c2725f88784d0eb7204ec89cb1c1fbf933/DSCF7842_edited_low.jpg" data-mid="222737708" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/caf43c6a04247416ac3fa010ebde11c2725f88784d0eb7204ec89cb1c1fbf933/DSCF7842_edited_low.jpg" /> <img width="1129" height="1500" width_o="1129" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8e74f712e863798c2978965f2341b59105f040b81e3b4baa060848425376b89/00.jpg" data-mid="203605433" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d8e74f712e863798c2978965f2341b59105f040b81e3b4baa060848425376b89/00.jpg" /> <img width="2268" height="4032" width_o="2268" height_o="4032" 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border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/597/i/668bafc31b554586fcc591b05d3128341371322e65cb31d406b86890a11623cc/Screenshot-2024-05-15-140427.png" /> https://llumaa.com/House-with-concrete-trusses Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:39:20 +0000 LLUMAA https://llumaa.com/House-with-concrete-trusses HOUSE WITH CONCRETE TRUSSES Apartment, Besnate, Varese (IT)Status: Built Year: 2026 Team: Luca Luini, Lorenza SartoriLocation: Besnate (VA), Italy Photograhy: Riccardo De Vecchi Published on: Divisare <img width="2828" height="2000" width_o="2828" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9403fbc405669bc956b03a653dbec58c649bd2d4269131825b5da79a5eaeba71/llumaa-riccardo-de-vecchi-house-with-concrete-trusses-14.jpg" data-mid="247621527" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9403fbc405669bc956b03a653dbec58c649bd2d4269131825b5da79a5eaeba71/llumaa-riccardo-de-vecchi-house-with-concrete-trusses-14.jpg" /> <img width="2828" height="2000" width_o="2828" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94436a429a5eab9cb0eda0d6a86aebdc9da5150b075d8b60acae525d51f2ffc5/llumaa-riccardo-de-vecchi-house-with-concrete-trusses-15.jpg" data-mid="247621528" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/94436a429a5eab9cb0eda0d6a86aebdc9da5150b075d8b60acae525d51f2ffc5/llumaa-riccardo-de-vecchi-house-with-concrete-trusses-15.jpg" /> In the town of Besnate, in the Varese hinterland the project insists on a diffuse post-war condition: the casa e bottega, a building type that conflated domestic life and small-scale production under a single roof. The apartment occupies the former offices of a family construction company, housed in a 1970s prefabricated shed.The structure belongs to a recognisable lineage of Italian industrial building: precast concrete elements of the so-called sistema Varese, a hybrid of standardised spans and site-specific assembly typical of the construction industry between the 1950s and 1970s. It is the same system that, on the exterior, separates the dwelling from the warehouse through a full-height portal — a prefabricated tympanum formed by the same reticulated beam that reappears inside, marking the threshold between the two volumes of the compound. Within, these trusses define the full depth of the space. At the time of the intervention, they were entirely concealed: suspended flat ceilings had parcelled the interior into offices and storage rooms, suppressing the geometry above. The project begins with an act of exposure, removing the false ceilings — the structure, once revealed, becomes the primary ordering device of the new dwelling. Two previously disconnected levels are joined into a single unit. The intervention does not impose a new spatial logic onto the existing shell, but proceeds by precise, localised insertions that negotiate between the inherited geometry and the requirements of domestic life.On the ground floor, the demands of new building services required the complete renewal of the floor — an opportunity taken to lay a continuous resin surface that enters into chromatic dialogue with the exposed concrete trusses above, unifying the entire level into a single base. From here, the living zone opens as a continuous space — kitchen, dining and living — from which two vertical connections of opposite character depart. The first is a spiral staircase in mint-painted steel, light and chromatic, rising to a mezzanine study: the balustrade extends horizontally to become a work surface, and the original terrazzo floor — multi-coloured, screziato, a found material restored to its dignity — spreads beneath the exposed trusses. <img width="800" height="1261" width_o="800" height_o="1261" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b43797f413e093f432d15e5977c1039044f795ae4b2bc0cbd8a5c9306b94b9f8/llumaa-riccardo-de-vecchi-house-with-concrete-trusses.jpg" data-mid="247621653" border="0" data-scale="70" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/b43797f413e093f432d15e5977c1039044f795ae4b2bc0cbd8a5c9306b94b9f8/llumaa-riccardo-de-vecchi-house-with-concrete-trusses.jpg" /> &nbsp; <img width="800" height="1066" width_o="800" height_o="1066" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a122ece34a3217e51dbd47d93128da6bcca1100c5f83a8514061280f32229ed6/llumaa-riccardo-de-vecchi-house-with-concrete-trusses-3.jpg" data-mid="247621587" border="0" data-scale="40" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/a122ece34a3217e51dbd47d93128da6bcca1100c5f83a8514061280f32229ed6/llumaa-riccardo-de-vecchi-house-with-concrete-trusses-3.jpg" /> <img width="800" height="1066" width_o="800" height_o="1066" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8809a6e77d5f0d36ff7c6e89239da697af1994f782de51e4593ca060361190f3/llumaa-riccardo-de-vecchi-house-with-concrete-trusses-2.jpg" data-mid="247621582" border="0" data-scale="40" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/8809a6e77d5f0d36ff7c6e89239da697af1994f782de51e4593ca060361190f3/llumaa-riccardo-de-vecchi-house-with-concrete-trusses-2.jpg" /> <img width="800" height="1066" width_o="800" height_o="1066" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/913c1a55bd6239dce2accfefbb7dca9d892d80f753374fcd19252a3196b09730/llumaa-riccardo-de-vecchi-house-with-concrete-trusses-1.jpg" data-mid="247621579" border="0" data-scale="75" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/913c1a55bd6239dce2accfefbb7dca9d892d80f753374fcd19252a3196b09730/llumaa-riccardo-de-vecchi-house-with-concrete-trusses-1.jpg" /> The second is a straight monolithic and silent stair that leads to the intermediate level of the pre-existing dwelling, where a second bedroom occupies a quieter register: the original inlaid parquet has been carefully restored, its warmth and intricacy forming a deliberate counterpoint to the industrial rawness of the levels below.Above the principal truss, freed also along its edge beam, the main bedroom is transformed by a single decisive addition: new zenithal openings cut through the roof plane, introducing light from above. Against the white walls and pine plywood joinery — the consistent language of all bespoke furniture and built-in storage — the project deploys colors as chromatic landmarks, orienting movement through a dwelling assembled from found layers and new insertions in equal measure. Light arrives indirectly. The concrete porticos along the perimeter filter it before it reaches the interior, giving it a diffuse, courtyard-like quality <img width="800" height="1261" width_o="800" height_o="1261" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b43797f413e093f432d15e5977c1039044f795ae4b2bc0cbd8a5c9306b94b9f8/llumaa-riccardo-de-vecchi-house-with-concrete-trusses.jpg" data-mid="247621653" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/b43797f413e093f432d15e5977c1039044f795ae4b2bc0cbd8a5c9306b94b9f8/llumaa-riccardo-de-vecchi-house-with-concrete-trusses.jpg" /> <img width="800" height="1066" width_o="800" height_o="1066" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/913c1a55bd6239dce2accfefbb7dca9d892d80f753374fcd19252a3196b09730/llumaa-riccardo-de-vecchi-house-with-concrete-trusses-1.jpg" data-mid="247621579" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/913c1a55bd6239dce2accfefbb7dca9d892d80f753374fcd19252a3196b09730/llumaa-riccardo-de-vecchi-house-with-concrete-trusses-1.jpg" /> 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/89c30f25f90fd27f17b098ffde08324852ad78e88bc192681bc63e53a5b2c361/llumaa-riccardo-de-vecchi-house-with-concrete-trusses-12.jpg" data-mid="247621652" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/89c30f25f90fd27f17b098ffde08324852ad78e88bc192681bc63e53a5b2c361/llumaa-riccardo-de-vecchi-house-with-concrete-trusses-12.jpg" /> See more https://llumaa.com/Piazza-Moro Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:40:20 +0000 LLUMAA https://llumaa.com/Piazza-Moro PIAZZA MORO and VIA DELLA REPUBBLICA Bitonto, Bari (IT)Executive Project Project Title: Urban Regeneration of Piazza Aldo Moro and Via della Repubblica Location: Bitonto (BA), Italy Architects / Studio: Luca Luini &amp; Riccardo Masiero – LLUMAA Year: 2023 – ongoing Type of Intervention: Urban regeneration and public space design; pedestrianization; urban green integration; contemporary street furniture Project Area: approximately 15,000 m² Client: Municipality of Bitonto Funding: PNRR – Next Generation EU In the heart of Bitonto, the transformation of Piazza Aldo Moro and Via della Repubblica unfolds as a poetic rewriting of the urban fabric. More than a redevelopment, it is a gesture that restores identity to the city center, drawing inspiration from the lame – the ancient furrows that carve the Apulian landscape and preserve its collective memory. <img width="6114" height="4076" width_o="6114" height_o="4076" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/402f4cdba64f92eb5a13f440ef4c383f53275c70937ab3766eec27520a586676/DSCF7847_edited.jpg" data-mid="237971806" border="0" alt="maquette modellino piazza aldo moro a bitonto masterplan di llumaa architettura" data-caption="maquette modellino piazza aldo moro a bitonto masterplan di llumaa architettura" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/402f4cdba64f92eb5a13f440ef4c383f53275c70937ab3766eec27520a586676/DSCF7847_edited.jpg" /> The square is no longer an island surrounded by traffic, but a vast mineral carpet of local stone, continuous and seamless, erasing thresholds and unifying streets, sidewalks, and crossings. The ground opens as a civic stage, designed for encounter and pause, for flows and stillness, balancing mobility with permanence. Permeable surfaces narrate a more resilient city, one that learns to converse with water and natural rhythms. <img width="3511" height="3511" width_o="3511" height_o="3511" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/58a618317685d89d7966d3665bfaae08d17bc10b56fe2fcfb05c39d758e875e1/Piazza-Moro_masterplan_llumaa.jpg" data-mid="237971312" border="0" alt="piazza-moro-masterplan-llumaa" data-caption="piazza-moro-masterplan-llumaa" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/58a618317685d89d7966d3665bfaae08d17bc10b56fe2fcfb05c39d758e875e1/Piazza-Moro_masterplan_llumaa.jpg" /> <img width="4160" height="5200" width_o="4160" height_o="5200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8fe0abf303e07265d07b53a55dd7abf3eae07e0be397433dff4c98798af72ebc/DSCF7762_edited_low.jpg" data-mid="237971318" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8fe0abf303e07265d07b53a55dd7abf3eae07e0be397433dff4c98798af72ebc/DSCF7762_edited_low.jpg" /> <img width="4160" height="6240" width_o="4160" height_o="6240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b45e40128df0e3c350d7d4996182564534a29ae5d5923001d482ae8332ac96d9/DSCF7831_edited.jpg" data-mid="237971320" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b45e40128df0e3c350d7d4996182564534a29ae5d5923001d482ae8332ac96d9/DSCF7831_edited.jpg" /> <img width="3841" height="5761" width_o="3841" height_o="5761" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d183a8051ff6d1aad21f05c8a99cf9e502f11afdf788f99365785fbaf2f7ee7/DSCF7795_edited_low.jpg" data-mid="237971319" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d183a8051ff6d1aad21f05c8a99cf9e502f11afdf788f99365785fbaf2f7ee7/DSCF7795_edited_low.jpg" /> Greenery becomes the new architecture of the space, expanded twenty-five times over its current extent. The historic holm oaks are not sacrificed but relocated, regaining dignity within a design that interweaves shadow and light, memory and future. Around them, Mediterranean shrubs and seasonal blossoms introduce color, fragrance, and biodiversity. The urban landscape turns into a diffuse garden, where nature is not ornament but structure. Urban furnishings are inserted as fragments of a coherent language, never overpowering, always accompanying the gestures of collective life.At the heart of the square, a vast urban void unfolds — a quiet, unencumbered surface that seems to wait, suspended, for life to inhabit it. This emptiness is intentional: a space stripped to its essence, returned to the city as a place of gathering and recognition. It becomes a mutable stage where civic celebrations, open-air concerts, religious processions, and local festivities can all take place in turn. Its strength lies in this openness, in the refusal of a single program, offering instead a generous and ever-changing ground for collective experience. <img width="1000" height="1000" width_o="1000" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1eda02137293fbe8818ee3e767bae24a692f5c1ac397556ce86b00cf70347643/Piazza-Moro_assonometria_llumaa.jpg" data-mid="237971321" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1eda02137293fbe8818ee3e767bae24a692f5c1ac397556ce86b00cf70347643/Piazza-Moro_assonometria_llumaa.jpg" /> <img width="4961" height="4961" width_o="4961" height_o="4961" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/92c6bcabd2016ee703278d0c041c55ce798f329bb326aafa2f0e5c22b91de5bf/Piazza-Moro_sezioni_llumaa.jpg" data-mid="237971322" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/92c6bcabd2016ee703278d0c041c55ce798f329bb326aafa2f0e5c22b91de5bf/Piazza-Moro_sezioni_llumaa.jpg" /> Via della Repubblica, once a channel of traffic, is transformed into a pedestrian boulevard. The continuity of stone invites walking and cycling, reshaping the city’s tempo. Speed retreats, space slows down, and daily experience becomes more intimate, more human. This transformation is both physical and symbolic: Piazza Moro and Via della Repubblica emerge as an urban manifesto, a place where the city rediscovers itself through slowness, the shade of trees, and the dialogue between stone and nature. A contemporary landscape, born of memory yet oriented toward the future, with delicacy, measure, and ambition. See more https://llumaa.com/Learning-from-the-Lama Thu, 10 Feb 2022 13:36:05 +0000 LLUMAA https://llumaa.com/Learning-from-the-Lama LEARNING FROM THE LAMA Europan 16 - Bitonto (IT) Winner project Year: 2021 Team: Luca Luini, Riccardo Masiero Location: Bitonto (BA), Italy Status: Competition - First Prize The need to regenerate Bitonto&nbsp;itself in the light of the challenges of the Anthropocene is possible through an enhancement of the functioning of its three main scopes: the urban scope, the agricultural scope, and the naturalistic scope of Lama Balice. The latter is the one whose potential currently is the least developed. The analysis of the natural mechanisms existing within the Lama and the study of its complex biology generate exchange models that, once implemented and replicated, could contribute to reinforcing the biodiversity with positive effects on environmental quality, urban livability, and economic processes. The piazzas of Bitonto, Palombaio, and Mariotto would then become the physical places where these regenerative processes would take place on a human scale. <img width="6403" height="2836" width_o="6403" height_o="2836" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/30cdc8cacdb63c69d56f3f39e188d8ae597168465a87318903384083a56e763a/01_Vista-Bitonto.jpg" data-mid="133104012" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/30cdc8cacdb63c69d56f3f39e188d8ae597168465a87318903384083a56e763a/01_Vista-Bitonto.jpg" /> An important geological characteristic of the area is presence of the “Lame": long and shallow karst furrows that cross the plain of Bari from the Murgia hills to the coastline. The “Lame” constitutes a major exception in the agricultural landscape of the Apulian plateau, which is normally dominated by olive and wine cultivation, representing natural ecologic corridors for the wild species of the area. <img width="6668" height="4167" width_o="6668" height_o="4167" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f32b73723cc8f4a23df67f575d2a9e5b03fb960f1672e8d234697d8efb036d0/04_Schema-Lame.jpg" data-mid="134983266" border="0" data-scale="49" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f32b73723cc8f4a23df67f575d2a9e5b03fb960f1672e8d234697d8efb036d0/04_Schema-Lame.jpg" /> In the management of the transformation of the territory Bitonto presents three different grounds of change: •City (urban scope): the space of the consolidated city of Bitonto and the two outposts of Palomabio and Mariotto; •Lama (naturalistic scope): the space of major naturalis tic quality and biodiversity; •Ruralscape (agricultural scope): the ordinated space of the olive plateau and its&nbsp; places of production. <img width="7017" height="4251" width_o="7017" height_o="4251" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/143389831c054b3daf5b83bd9943a60441972170f50e49550b1a0d4e8d987aba/03_Tondo-centrale-01x.jpg" data-mid="133192469" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/143389831c054b3daf5b83bd9943a60441972170f50e49550b1a0d4e8d987aba/03_Tondo-centrale-01x.jpg" /> Lama Balice is a puzzle of diverse and various biotopes, especially if compared to the surrounding agricultural land. Along its path, Lama Balice varies in width and depth, as well as in the presence of water and land usage. The result of this fragmentation is a richness in biodiversity and landscapes that gave to the lama an exceptionality that still needs to be valorized in a proper way. <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44809bf2dc60b256dadaef53c35c86dd91208339314cb1a46122d7c074f29b84/Sequenza-01_1.gif" data-mid="133190085" border="0" data-scale="100" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/44809bf2dc60b256dadaef53c35c86dd91208339314cb1a46122d7c074f29b84/Sequenza-01_1.gif" /> <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d73865e1388f9dfbb473c828995b1c5e33b538c8589f5430a8c46bb23af8c296/Sequenza-01.gif" data-mid="133190084" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d73865e1388f9dfbb473c828995b1c5e33b538c8589f5430a8c46bb23af8c296/Sequenza-01.gif" /> The implementation of virtuous exchanges between the three scopes generates dynamics that can be condensed in local interventions. The theme “reinforce biodiversity” to transform Bitonto is interpreted through the analysis of the mechanisms that regulate e the territory, developing processes between the&nbsp; places of changes, and their reference contexts. The loss of biodiversity of the Antropocene transformation is evident in the disfunction of the ecosystems, in the loss of those ecological services and goods that are no more&nbsp; furnished by the land, and in the loss of complexity of genetic diversity. Bitonto. The system of the squares of Bitonto can be seen as an urban breach in the compact urban fabric of the city. The open space of the squares follows an inclined plane that slowly descends from piazza Aldo Moro to piazza Castello, facing onto Lama Balice. <img width="7017" height="4961" width_o="7017" height_o="4961" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62593fd1c97eccdb19408431ccf95b0f704ae2a02f922be9b184b335f5a771d2/06_Assonometria-Bitonto-01.jpg" data-mid="133191122" border="0" data-scale="100" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/62593fd1c97eccdb19408431ccf95b0f704ae2a02f922be9b184b335f5a771d2/06_Assonometria-Bitonto-01.jpg" /> <img width="600" height="1080" width_o="600" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9bed9265e1b3c941ba84640c589f6d388dee94fe99f992fd63ebf7cbc39569e2/manage.gif" data-mid="133556615" border="0" data-scale="80" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/9bed9265e1b3c941ba84640c589f6d388dee94fe99f992fd63ebf7cbc39569e2/manage.gif" /> The project&nbsp; intends&nbsp; to revitalize&nbsp; the pulsing heart&nbsp; of&nbsp; the city&nbsp; facing&nbsp; the actual problems while preserving the identity and the genius loci of Bitonto center. The approach of the project is the preserving of the main spatial features of the place but with a new approach to the theme of the biodiversity and quality of urban life. <img width="7016" height="2977" width_o="7016" height_o="2977" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1bd7cd46cdc762876b75eb35702c6e2f6a4c8e3dc3c5f2b59176133341addef4/07_Piazza-Bitonto-1.jpg" data-mid="134983016" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1bd7cd46cdc762876b75eb35702c6e2f6a4c8e3dc3c5f2b59176133341addef4/07_Piazza-Bitonto-1.jpg" /> Palombaio, Mariotto.<img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e8e85c6751661151380e737eabca7e84ce32a8ad5454a4c9bd687dca8a9a4f1/Palombaio_Mariotto_plan.gif" data-mid="134547685" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1e8e85c6751661151380e737eabca7e84ce32a8ad5454a4c9bd687dca8a9a4f1/Palombaio_Mariotto_plan.gif" /> <img width="5197" height="3781" width_o="5197" height_o="3781" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/85680ed54d5975ec2e68d6aecf221b48e136724d94b00f3e3d475cd872c2c8b8/10_Assonometria-Palombaio-01.jpg" data-mid="133190066" border="0" data-scale="100" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/85680ed54d5975ec2e68d6aecf221b48e136724d94b00f3e3d475cd872c2c8b8/10_Assonometria-Palombaio-01.jpg" /> The hamlets of Bitonto are situated in the vast olive plain surrounding&nbsp; the&nbsp; city, born and de veloped&nbsp; as rural outposts for the city . The main squares of the hamlets are located alongside this road, as are the main civic and religious building of the towns. The promotion of itineraries to visit the agricultural areas and the inland&nbsp; area of&nbsp; Bitonto can generate a virtuous&nbsp; development of&nbsp; the&nbsp; economy of&nbsp; the&nbsp; hamlets. Particularly,&nbsp; the Via Cela bike lane&nbsp; that connects Bitonto with Alta Murgia National&nbsp; Park crosses&nbsp; the north area of&nbsp; the&nbsp; two hamlets: the&nbsp; goal is&nbsp; to intercept the&nbsp; fluxes&nbsp; of people&nbsp; visiting&nbsp; the countryside&nbsp; by&nbsp; proposing them as&nbsp; intermediate&nbsp; stops in&nbsp; the discovery of the territory, and to establish contacts between local product companies and outside visitors. This process can be fixed in the squares of the hamlets, regenerating them and the activities surrounding it. <img width="1890" height="1890" width_o="1890" height_o="1890" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0e7be894a94b0bef38581b8b3b6fb6eb589981944b11756b36c717affcb57ba/12_Piazza-Mariotto.jpg" data-mid="133190072" border="0" data-scale="81" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b0e7be894a94b0bef38581b8b3b6fb6eb589981944b11756b36c717affcb57ba/12_Piazza-Mariotto.jpg" /> <img width="5197" height="4489" width_o="5197" height_o="4489" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd8188c9a05e13f88b8bddff27403dbd07ffd3380bfded950bb00cd2d99e3909/11_Assonometria-Mariotto-01.jpg" data-mid="133190070" border="0" data-scale="100" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd8188c9a05e13f88b8bddff27403dbd07ffd3380bfded950bb00cd2d99e3909/11_Assonometria-Mariotto-01.jpg" /> <img width="4522" height="3198" width_o="4522" height_o="3198" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e96c6c32512fdd0ff42d554d0f5b2fe6a5add9a4e10b2076fe9cbc7e695662de/vista-bitonto---ig.jpg" data-mid="141649551" border="0" data-scale="51" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e96c6c32512fdd0ff42d554d0f5b2fe6a5add9a4e10b2076fe9cbc7e695662de/vista-bitonto---ig.jpg" /> See more https://llumaa.com/Apartment-SG Wed, 24 Jul 2024 08:50:37 +0000 LLUMAA https://llumaa.com/Apartment-SG APARTMENT SG - BESNATE Apartment, Besnate, Varese (IT)Status: Built Year: 2024 Team: Luca Luini, Lorenza SartoriLocation: Besnate (VA), Italy <img width="2886" height="2886" width_o="2886" height_o="2886" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d62d755f3a4e7f3dc6f93cf66c51200c4b60963fcbafd49474538e214657ca71/sgaetano-Recuperato_Tavola-disegno-1.jpg" data-mid="215183435" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d62d755f3a4e7f3dc6f93cf66c51200c4b60963fcbafd49474538e214657ca71/sgaetano-Recuperato_Tavola-disegno-1.jpg" /> <img width="2886" height="2886" width_o="2886" height_o="2886" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/828e2bbb7c48d509f345a6fb3d7600d5904ed73f562bc363ad72e3f5a65ac527/sgaetano-Recuperato_Tavola-disegno-1-copia.jpg" data-mid="215183434" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/828e2bbb7c48d509f345a6fb3d7600d5904ed73f562bc363ad72e3f5a65ac527/sgaetano-Recuperato_Tavola-disegno-1-copia.jpg" /> The apartment is situated within a 1931 terraced house, overlooking a central street on one side and a bright, green courtyard on the other, while preserving notable architectural elements such as ornate window frames. Designed for a young couple, the project entailed renovating three rooms of the grandparents’ former residence to create an independent apartment. The overarching objective was to harmonize the building’s energy efficiency requirements with the retention of certain poignant features associated with the couple’s memories. The primary aim of the project was to enhance the building’s energy efficiency through internal insulation (to preserve external embellishments) and the installation of a new radiant floor. Simultaneously, an internal reorganization was undertaken to optimize views, light, and privacy, including the addition of a new bathroom previously absent in that part of the building. <img width="4160" height="5200" width_o="4160" height_o="5200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9c64b10accf2d8908f05c0fe00d1016e33da4482ab01d0f29bdf597dc7c39568/ridotto-sg3.jpg" data-mid="215185713" border="0" data-scale="70" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9c64b10accf2d8908f05c0fe00d1016e33da4482ab01d0f29bdf597dc7c39568/ridotto-sg3.jpg" /> &nbsp; <img width="4160" height="5200" width_o="4160" height_o="5200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e049b013d3e7a314fe6e6c6525ac6d77adc7f63aeb3c80fd9ab32edce028d870/ridotto-sg4.jpg" data-mid="215185714" border="0" data-scale="35" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e049b013d3e7a314fe6e6c6525ac6d77adc7f63aeb3c80fd9ab32edce028d870/ridotto-sg4.jpg" /> <img width="4160" height="5200" width_o="4160" height_o="5200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74c992b3645620fdddffd7dc8724d56236ca1a400a53b1682309ec80fba11cac/ridotto-sg1.jpg" data-mid="215185711" border="0" data-scale="35" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/74c992b3645620fdddffd7dc8724d56236ca1a400a53b1682309ec80fba11cac/ridotto-sg1.jpg" /> <img width="4042" height="5053" width_o="4042" height_o="5053" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a1b4293509264b7a8fa117a5e347eacf30f5e62b06866f7545ca2a3d7f6faaf/ridotto-sg2.jpg" data-mid="215185712" border="0" data-scale="75" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8a1b4293509264b7a8fa117a5e347eacf30f5e62b06866f7545ca2a3d7f6faaf/ridotto-sg2.jpg" /> The strategically positioned new staircase facilitates independent access to the premises, nullifying the need for common balcony use. Acting as a distribution and connective element, the staircase imparts distinctive character to the spaces through its color, drawing inspiration from the original internal LIGHT blue paint of the shutters and fixtures. Where possible, the interior finishes integrate original elements of the house with modern components. Notably, in the bedroom, the sole space where the antique cement tiles were preserved, they have been integrated into the contemporary radiant flooring system, juxtaposed with a flooring motif reminiscent of the terraces found in traditional houses. <img width="4160" height="5200" width_o="4160" height_o="5200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9bca4bf53e8a0d4b9034f1deab2324a70788bfdced2595ccca27cfef9d12347c/DSCF8437.jpg" data-mid="215195068" border="0" data-scale="75" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9bca4bf53e8a0d4b9034f1deab2324a70788bfdced2595ccca27cfef9d12347c/DSCF8437.jpg" /> See more https://llumaa.com/Casa-Verta Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:13:57 +0000 LLUMAA https://llumaa.com/Casa-Verta CASA VÈRTA Social housing, Padova(IT)AAAarchitetticercasi - Padova 2023/24 Year: 2024 Team: Luca Luini, Lorenza Sartori, Riccardo Masiero, Riccardo Piconi Status competition: LostLocation: Padova, Italy <img width="1100" height="1101" width_o="1100" height_o="1101" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e79abba4d295bc25b5ef51ab0850ba63ffb37cbaa43e6214396ab0dbdd06222e/schema-territoriale.jpg" data-mid="238113336" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e79abba4d295bc25b5ef51ab0850ba63ffb37cbaa43e6214396ab0dbdd06222e/schema-territoriale.jpg" /> CASA VÈRTA is conceived as a collective home at a human scale, rooted in the spirit of neighborhood life.Its ambition is to reinterpret contemporary collective living through an open and flexible system that welcomes the creation of a new community hub for the Bassanello district and for the city of Padua as a whole. <img width="3485" height="3485" width_o="3485" height_o="3485" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1309d9ea2558eeccfc022e4bf13f511673b3fabadfc96314e47abc29df0129f7/asso.jpg" data-mid="238113281" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1309d9ea2558eeccfc022e4bf13f511673b3fabadfc96314e47abc29df0129f7/asso.jpg" /> The project reclaims a formerly residual urban void, transforming it through the dual presence of a tower and a courtyard. These two architectural figures go beyond the traditional notion of an enclosed urban block, projecting their influence outward and engaging with the wider context. <img width="3270" height="3271" width_o="3270" height_o="3271" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/585cb5cf955d7ac91602d7b3570fa082ee96e6f5e6593ab54e7f3e1d015ebebd/spazi-aperti-Model-01-01-01.jpg" data-mid="238113285" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/585cb5cf955d7ac91602d7b3570fa082ee96e6f5e6593ab54e7f3e1d015ebebd/spazi-aperti-Model-01-01-01.jpg" /> <img width="3234" height="3234" width_o="3234" height_o="3234" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/96db218edd11de251992372f25c08891eb1aaf50c316129a521e3c2e5e40df72/pianta-tipo.jpg" data-mid="238113282" border="0" data-scale="75" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/96db218edd11de251992372f25c08891eb1aaf50c316129a521e3c2e5e40df72/pianta-tipo.jpg" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="1200" height="1200" width_o="1200" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cfa514cc12c3a61f6f6b6178fdfc7abf50213174ede113ed944858baca5ad26f/VISTA-01_PD_2024.04.12_pd-prog_VISTA-01.jpg" data-mid="238113286" border="0" data-scale="45" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cfa514cc12c3a61f6f6b6178fdfc7abf50213174ede113ed944858baca5ad26f/VISTA-01_PD_2024.04.12_pd-prog_VISTA-01.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="1200" width_o="1200" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e091d11125b04ca7fb44d10850bbf2dab4bbbfa0493e37a9e722fbd7071cd9ed/VISTA-02_PD_2024.04.12_pd-prog_VISTA-01.jpg" data-mid="238113289" border="0" data-scale="45" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e091d11125b04ca7fb44d10850bbf2dab4bbbfa0493e37a9e722fbd7071cd9ed/VISTA-02_PD_2024.04.12_pd-prog_VISTA-01.jpg" /> <img width="4041" height="2694" width_o="4041" height_o="2694" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/20942dba975802b4580c0053b33544c732b5637f5fa9b9bf79c12faf95d7788d/sez.jpg" data-mid="238113284" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/20942dba975802b4580c0053b33544c732b5637f5fa9b9bf79c12faf95d7788d/sez.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="1200" width_o="1200" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bb6f1d3069b8b0787a98b3af1340ca9a0fb68281f16f343642c488df90056c0d/VISTA-03_PD_2024.04.12_pd-prog_VISTA-03.jpg" data-mid="238113292" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bb6f1d3069b8b0787a98b3af1340ca9a0fb68281f16f343642c488df90056c0d/VISTA-03_PD_2024.04.12_pd-prog_VISTA-03.jpg" /> The tower rises as a new urban landmark, a vertical sign that frames views across the neighborhood and establishes a dialogue with the city at large, while the courtyard grounds the project in the everyday, inviting permeability and interaction through pathways, green spaces, and shared areas of encounter. Together, tower and courtyard create a framework for new forms of proximity and reciprocity, where architecture mediates between past traces and future aspirations. In doing so, CASA VÈRTA does not simply provide housing, but contributes to the rediscovery of Bassanello’s neighborhood identity, reactivating its sense of belonging and collective vitality. <img width="1200" height="1200" width_o="1200" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f0609ac1e0b9c7f048f6aa171bcacd3b45bbb4cd58a5044ca21829b441b2484/VISTA-BALCON_PD_2024.04.12_pd-prog_VISTA-03.jpg" data-mid="238113295" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1f0609ac1e0b9c7f048f6aa171bcacd3b45bbb4cd58a5044ca21829b441b2484/VISTA-BALCON_PD_2024.04.12_pd-prog_VISTA-03.jpg" /> See more https://llumaa.com/Parco-sull-Olona Tue, 30 Jul 2024 10:19:35 +0000 LLUMAA https://llumaa.com/Parco-sull-Olona PARCO SULL’OLONA Concorso di idee Cairate, Varese (IT) Year: 2024 Team: Luca Luini, Lorenza Sartori, Riccardo Masiero, Riccardo PiconiStatus: Lost Competition The project lot in via dante, represents an important urban void within the city center, in direct contact with the large territorial system of the olona valley, and with the consolidated fabric of the city. The olona valley can be developed for leisure, sport, culture, production, and innovation, benefiting the city of Cairate. To this end, connecting the city center to the valley is important physically, trough routes that facilitate ascent/descent into the valley, and by providing the city with an attractive and varied programmatic offer. In the olona Valley, there are several important activities currently present and under development. <img width="2794" height="3492" width_o="2794" height_o="3492" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1274073fd20c06c3f0eb709b3524a3ef3218673d2e8fc77506445bb736f8e894/territoriale-cairate-01.jpg" data-mid="215502936" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1274073fd20c06c3f0eb709b3524a3ef3218673d2e8fc77506445bb736f8e894/territoriale-cairate-01.jpg" /> The restoration and expansion of the 19th-century villa’s park provides an opportunity for social renewal and environmental revitalization in the heart of Cairate. The park in via dante, which was born as a private garden of romantic taste, has over the years become an area that was first cultivated and finally uncultivated and abandoned, thus seeing its original conformation irreversibly lost. &nbsp; The park on Via Dante, originally created as a private garden with a typical romantic aesthetic, has evolved over the years from a well-mantained area to an abandoned and uncultivated space, leading to the irreversible loss of its original form. The project aims to re-imagine both the historical, architectural and natural elements of the garden, including its wooded and rural landscape, to establish a diverse ecosystem. <img width="4558" height="3598" width_o="4558" height_o="3598" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d190ac53a60ba2eca5e919c397d6b26135026db04135f2e3694ab0b8e7d9884/13.jpg" data-mid="215502932" border="0" data-scale="51" data-no-zoom data-icon-mode src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d190ac53a60ba2eca5e919c397d6b26135026db04135f2e3694ab0b8e7d9884/13.jpg" /> The garden is designed as a series of natural rooms, bordered by strip of layered vegetation. Paths and activities wind through the garden, providing shaded areas for rest, spaces for interaction, large lawns that slope down towards the valley below. The park’s paths are envisioned as a continuous gentle ribbon that conform the shape of the land, and the green space within it. <img width="1600" height="900" width_o="1600" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3e82cf32b801e65cdf6eeb9695f05588bde0d0299beb014c39f7176677fd5013/14.jpg" data-mid="215502933" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3e82cf32b801e65cdf6eeb9695f05588bde0d0299beb014c39f7176677fd5013/14.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="900" width_o="1600" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d41d5345c1ebe9ff25fecb660431db719326db10c7a53bab2c597c8ad1867cec/16.jpg" data-mid="215502935" border="0" data-scale="100" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d41d5345c1ebe9ff25fecb660431db719326db10c7a53bab2c597c8ad1867cec/16.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="900" width_o="1600" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/693572554261ca2a545cf48f1f17c43440594128f23570fb820a82dc1d04ab4c/15.jpg" data-mid="215502934" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/693572554261ca2a545cf48f1f17c43440594128f23570fb820a82dc1d04ab4c/15.jpg" /> See more https://llumaa.com/Valit Thu, 10 Feb 2022 13:36:05 +0000 LLUMAA https://llumaa.com/Valit VALÌT (x&nbsp;/mò ·le/) Premio Federico Maggia 2022 - Biella (IT)Finalist project - with /mò·le/ Photos: Giovanni Galanello Year: 2022 Team: Marco Agosti, Luca Luini, Michele Marini, Riccardo MasieroLocation: Biella, ItalyStatus: Built /mò·le/ was selected to design and realize a small project for the architecture and landscape price Premio Federico Maggia. The theme of the price was related to the architectures of knowledge and learning about the context of Biella and it’s territory. We have been entrusted with a client and a specific task, we were asked by a non-professional group of actors to design a series of scenic devices for a theatrical performance inside the cloister of a priest's parsonage in Campiglia Cervo (a small village close to Biella, Pedimont). Our outcome was “Valìt” a project of a flexible device that works as a theatrical scene and as a tool to discover hidden places of the Cervo Valley. <img width="5000" height="3333" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c8f883260b59cecc2e4612fc604bd063f8ce5be5203ef5fd984bacbe7b8400f/a_.2.gweb.jpg" data-mid="149007143" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0c8f883260b59cecc2e4612fc604bd063f8ce5be5203ef5fd984bacbe7b8400f/a_.2.gweb.jpg" /> The project area is part of a wide-ranging cultural and geographic system, which, following inversely the course of the Cervo River, goes up from Biella to the Sanctuary of S.Giovanni d’Andorno&nbsp;by traveling through the entire Upper Deer Valley, called "La Bürsch" by its inhabitants. Despite a relative distance from the city of Biella, climbing the narrow road to the Alta Valle we noticed a rapid transition of human and natural environments. The huge woolen mills and their smokestacks that populate the river front, to the now abandoned granite and syenite quarries and a constellation of small villages.About thirty minutes northward from the Fondazione Sella&nbsp;we come to our project area, Campiglia Cervo. This village is the real beating heart of the Bürsch&nbsp;(dialect name for this valley) and it is the crossroads between the religious, historical and civic components of the valley. The village is articulated with two compact frontages on the provincial road, a few businesses occupy its ground floors, and the Town Hall and the immense bell tower of the Parish Church of S. Bernardo e Giuseppe&nbsp;stands out among the fine buildings. In a bend of the river in a lowered position from the road is the square of Campiglia Cervo and its main buildings. In this sleeve are in fact the Church, the Campiglia Cervo Rectory (Parish House) and the elementary school (formerly the Technical Institute wanted by engineer Mazzucchetti as a training school for "stonemasons"). The village occupies a central position in what is the Pluto of the Cervo Valley, a geological formation of circular outcropping magmatic rock, from which the inhabitants extracted granite and syenite, became the economic engine of the valley. This stone structured the economy of the&nbsp;Bürsch, determining the appearance of its natural and urban places. <img width="1129" height="1500" width_o="1129" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a4bcdd3d526c1cb727b6afa03fa62ae0fd644bb7d9b750838c6c93963ae14ed9/valit_contesto-provini-galanello-075.jpg" data-mid="148919638" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a4bcdd3d526c1cb727b6afa03fa62ae0fd644bb7d9b750838c6c93963ae14ed9/valit_contesto-provini-galanello-075.jpg" /> <img width="1129" height="1500" width_o="1129" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/00a928d504589217bfbbb66124f945a828c5f6066d6790cbe6a84f50a350e0a6/valit_contesto-provini-galanello-072.jpg" data-mid="148919634" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/00a928d504589217bfbbb66124f945a828c5f6066d6790cbe6a84f50a350e0a6/valit_contesto-provini-galanello-072.jpg" /> <img width="1129" height="1500" width_o="1129" 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width_o="3678" height_o="3058" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0fe8bef745f3b4bb78833dc02fd87b8fee207d3a1517b5682aa0aa7595588788/a_.2.---grafica2.png" data-mid="147219644" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0fe8bef745f3b4bb78833dc02fd87b8fee207d3a1517b5682aa0aa7595588788/a_.2.---grafica2.png" /> <img width="3678" height="3058" width_o="3678" height_o="3058" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/15c90a1dc1dcd538700ca37eb8257eeee7b487f2b5e9782142c42cc4e1259a07/a_.2.---foto1.png" data-mid="147219636" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/15c90a1dc1dcd538700ca37eb8257eeee7b487f2b5e9782142c42cc4e1259a07/a_.2.---foto1.png" /> <img width="3678" height="3058" width_o="3678" height_o="3058" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03951a83164b4043755ffe1826933825b847675ec17f75431d4ded81a896bc52/a_.2.---grafica1.png" data-mid="147219641" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/03951a83164b4043755ffe1826933825b847675ec17f75431d4ded81a896bc52/a_.2.---grafica1.png" /> <img width="5000" height="3333" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/444d342e03dadb8b7918d25d2f98bd882b199c511a78c66edf911329aab191a5/a__22_---Copia.jpg" data-mid="147120919" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/444d342e03dadb8b7918d25d2f98bd882b199c511a78c66edf911329aab191a5/a__22_---Copia.jpg" /> The client's request was to design equipment for a theatrical show performed by&nbsp;Teatrando, inside the rectory cloister. The show will be part of the La Bürsch in Festival&nbsp;event, a review of musical and theatrical performances that for the year 2022 will focus on the theme of the Cervo&nbsp;Valley&nbsp;Baroque. The theme of the performance added an additional conceptual layer that guided us in formulating our project. The themes of surprise, discovery, celebration and fiction have, slowly, begun to settle in and influence the design decisions we have made. Our project aimed to direct the visitor toward progressive discovery from the churchyard to the rectory garden and at the same time to be an open scenic device that could also be useful in multiple situations and with its own life beyond the summer performance, something that could be remodeled for different uses. The spirit of adaptation and the need to wander are characteristics that have always characterized the people of this valley. Famous for their dexterity and quality in working with stone the Valìt, they have moved all over the world to take part in great construction enterprises. <img width="4528" height="3017" width_o="4528" height_o="3017" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1034850cb2189b4beb2eaaf8d2ec821a2e51760fd7aa58a34ee0a504f5a650e2/a__30_.jpg" data-mid="147221117" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1034850cb2189b4beb2eaaf8d2ec821a2e51760fd7aa58a34ee0a504f5a650e2/a__30_.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="3333" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d1984238cd7fcc108693b7f314effc486e629a543b59796c5da0d00ebf3e35e6/a__4_.jpg" data-mid="147120740" border="0" data-no-zoom="true" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d1984238cd7fcc108693b7f314effc486e629a543b59796c5da0d00ebf3e35e6/a__4_.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="3333" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/615614580c8b4003008f3d12f78560c63b8506517416dfb2690cb2a02bc2441e/valit_progetto-web-galanello--13.jpg" data-mid="148808457" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/615614580c8b4003008f3d12f78560c63b8506517416dfb2690cb2a02bc2441e/valit_progetto-web-galanello--13.jpg" /> <img width="1129" height="1500" width_o="1129" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/60392b4f31ab286c8c68600eb48778c645b28c67b42dd960eb913b4c1dc9acdc/valit_progetto-web-galanello--15.jpg" data-mid="148808459" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/60392b4f31ab286c8c68600eb48778c645b28c67b42dd960eb913b4c1dc9acdc/valit_progetto-web-galanello--15.jpg" /> <img width="1129" height="1500" width_o="1129" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/86dd3c48d0bbdc9f22236f61e49509e24b33fbd2242c960034b0648a7239b14f/valit_progetto-web-galanello-383.jpg" data-mid="148808460" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/86dd3c48d0bbdc9f22236f61e49509e24b33fbd2242c960034b0648a7239b14f/valit_progetto-web-galanello-383.jpg" /> The installation has two distinct sides, one characterized by the structure of wood, metal, and stone (syenite), the other by a continuous curtain. Stone plays a rather important role in the project, it manages to be the main static element and still be a generator of contemporary meanings. By resorting to cutting and repositioning unused cantonments taken from the garden, the stone becomes the structural base to "ballast" the iron and wooden structures to the ground. From a structural element, syenite also becomes the artistic theme to characterize the curtain that hides the central space of the rectory. The photographic project of&nbsp;Alex Strekeisen&nbsp;(geologist Alessandro Da Mommio) starts from microscopic observation of portions of stone to arrive at some high qality images that we have printed in large format as a scenography, generating an unexpected and abstract vision. This reversal of scale, helped us to follow the themes of awe and pretense related to the Baroque by creating an expressive and colorful scenic backdrop, but also a clear boundary that cannot be crossed by visitors. <img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/279385edeba20a998c57b2361e62fc8265600682e54e233864be3473cdd49efe/MO-1.jpg" data-mid="148924248" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/279385edeba20a998c57b2361e62fc8265600682e54e233864be3473cdd49efe/MO-1.jpg" /> <img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac249089b0767bbf4f4c3630de489267d1a28118f512eb9adad101c70437d461/MO-2.jpg" data-mid="148924250" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ac249089b0767bbf4f4c3630de489267d1a28118f512eb9adad101c70437d461/MO-2.jpg" /> <img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/30a8020ca2d565a22304f91d13aea2bdc9858915ea44b7bffe9b0817326a1907/MO-4.jpg" data-mid="148924255" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/30a8020ca2d565a22304f91d13aea2bdc9858915ea44b7bffe9b0817326a1907/MO-4.jpg" /> See more https://llumaa.com/Cant-u-see-the-hill Tue, 30 Jul 2024 13:44:31 +0000 LLUMAA https://llumaa.com/Cant-u-see-the-hill CANT’ Ù SEE THE HILL Europan 17 - Cantù (IT) Proposal Year: 2023 Team: Luca Luini, Lorenza Sartori, Riccardo MasieroLocation: Cantù, ItalyStatus: Lost Competition The city of Cantù lies on a morainic deposit formed during the advance of the glaciers of the maximum Wurmian expansion: an elevated geographical feature that spans from the Prealps to the vast Po valley. The historic center is naturally grafted onto the highest parts of this hillaccording to a North–South axis. Although Cantù is a medium-sized city (the second for inhabitants in the province), it still enjoys the condition, often absent in other cities in the area, of not being conurbated with other urban centres, surrounded by a green belt that mostly belongs to the Brughiera Briantea Park. This important naturalistic area connects Cantù in form of natural ecological corridors, towards the Prealps to the north through the Spina Verde Park that connects it to the hills of Como. Being in a strategic position between the Prealpine area of Como and the Brianza lakes (with a tourist vocation) and the lower Brianza, fulcrum of a dense production district, the city must make sense of its potential to renew its internal (citizens) and external (tourists) allure. Cantù can be placed at the center of the naturalistic network and of paths, also using the hill as a starting point. <img width="7016" height="7016" width_o="7016" height_o="7016" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a7cb3fd623f46a256937741ae6dd607b54c1020f47e1f4fd22d64b693f5a088f/4.jpg" data-mid="215515173" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a7cb3fd623f46a256937741ae6dd607b54c1020f47e1f4fd22d64b693f5a088f/4.jpg" /> The hill of Cantù still today remains the recognizable center of the city: It does not appear as an intact historic village, but it contains buildings and spaces from very different eras (medieval, nineteenth-century, and modern), as well as large private and public green areas, heritage of the urban villas’ gardens of the past. The crest of the hill, which runs North-South, divides the two main eastern and western suburbsconsisting of mainly mixed residential and industrial areas, characterizing the most populated portions of the city. In recent years, instead of representing a centralizing element, the hill has mostly represented a caesura in the city road flows, favoring the centrifugal forcesthat have led to an increasing shift of commercial activities on the main arteries outside the city (the Canturina road, for example, and the Canturina Bis, still under planning), to the detriment of the local trade network to the center. These main automobile road axes lie in the valley and in themselves constitute a strong boundary between the city and the natural environments that surround it. The green and agricultural network close to the center risks finding itself cut off from these road arteries on which the commercial, large-scale distribution is increasing. <img width="3626" height="1459" width_o="3626" height_o="1459" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9b6d8dc10d09f5488e625cd95979e86888ce249b4b7da0f3650125aee0e41fed/5.jpg" data-mid="215515174" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9b6d8dc10d09f5488e625cd95979e86888ce249b4b7da0f3650125aee0e41fed/5.jpg" /> <img width="9964" height="9933" width_o="9964" height_o="9933" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bdd37679a3353ed2690e5432117e9957e343baef918b73fb40c286cf9f94588d/1.jpg" data-mid="215515170" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bdd37679a3353ed2690e5432117e9957e343baef918b73fb40c286cf9f94588d/1.jpg" /> <img width="4807" height="4251" width_o="4807" height_o="4251" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66e98d7292530b9297336df980c5a5da5fe5abaf7241661e66f45c41335f5104/2.jpg" data-mid="215515171" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66e98d7292530b9297336df980c5a5da5fe5abaf7241661e66f45c41335f5104/2.jpg" /> The center of Cantù and its surrounding environment today constitute a functional puzzle of activities in various areas that can be put into a system to operate this constellation of nodes through new synergies and connections. Not all of these potentials are currently enhanced, but the hill still has internal areas with ample possibilities for regeneration: some sectors such as the De Amicis (for which a PII is envisaged) and the areas behind the Castello di Pietrasanta, once revitalized, will be spring forth a new network of (potentially continuous) city and semi-public green spaces ( a sort of path upon the hills, linked to education and gree anreas) , but also individual abandoned or underused buildings have the potential to enrich the cultural value of the city. Buildings already to be renovated in the FuLaWiM project (Furniture And Lacework Widespread Museum) such as the former church of S. Ambrogio and Villa Calvi, but also the former Lux cinema or the new Palazzo della Permanente Mobili have such spatiality that they will be able to expand the network of cultural offers. Functionally, therefore, one can reason according to a process of reactivation of individual compartmentsand a systemization of the same subjects to create a real diagram of thematic itineraries and interchange areas, which can outline the city center and connect other parts of the city by a functional point of view. The activation strategy of the historic center is grafted according to a relationship between the main social, cultural and economic actors of the city that is both on a physical and a systemic level at the same time, reinforcing the idea of the Cantù hill as a place of cultural, commercial and leisure attraction, and trying to target and highlight the possible hidden itineraries inside the center and which can be propagated outside. The project of the public space assumes the role of ordering elementof the functional and identifying program of the center, anticipating the activation of the processes of the strategic areas and activating new ones on the social scale. Through a unitary strategy applied to public spaces it is possible to strengthen the identity and cohesion of the center of Cantù. A new system of open spaces connects historic spaces with developing sectors, valued as potential resources for the urban and environmental regeneration of the city. This new system of open spaces favors soft mobility, reinforces the presence of the landscapeas an element of identity and gives new life to some key places in the city. It must interface directly with its surroundings to create an urban reference point that connects public cultural places, paths, green areas and the commercial system of the DUC. The center of Cantù must regain its identity as a living centre, on a human and sustainable scale, in order to give back to the citizens the possibility of reliving forgotten and neglected actions such as walking, stopping, playing, experiencing public space in an intuitive way to favor a peaceful, functional, active coexistence. The center is therefore redesigned with a vision of sequences of active functional spaces, with the intention of reinforcing and mending urban plots that are now unstitched that can intersect existing poles with similar functional vocations to create a pedestrian subway of stops. <img width="1855" height="1780" width_o="1855" height_o="1780" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/86ccb8ec293059f5b7c4e2564ca15a315bd22d454324344984b158029052290c/3.jpg" data-mid="215515172" border="0" data-scale="94" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/86ccb8ec293059f5b7c4e2564ca15a315bd22d454324344984b158029052290c/3.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae35849d34a728a8aa654f5db9f7099e589287d1672869e96f00f4d168d0d6e0/6.jpg" data-mid="215515175" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ae35849d34a728a8aa654f5db9f7099e589287d1672869e96f00f4d168d0d6e0/6.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/85866d5de125d37e50451d33b4ce6ea9fc9fd41bf70ee2e06d4a9a862d3c5e9f/7.jpg" data-mid="215515176" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/85866d5de125d37e50451d33b4ce6ea9fc9fd41bf70ee2e06d4a9a862d3c5e9f/7.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1172ddc07238e19c58ea72b76ac7f1a8089ad676fdb244ca50b03bea98bd2264/10.jpg" data-mid="215515178" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1172ddc07238e19c58ea72b76ac7f1a8089ad676fdb244ca50b03bea98bd2264/10.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3d29af3eb4176cbdce59cb1d362d998cbd99e0337451a3beebbe0aa3c243f9e4/12.jpg" data-mid="215515180" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3d29af3eb4176cbdce59cb1d362d998cbd99e0337451a3beebbe0aa3c243f9e4/12.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2000" width_o="2000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f818216484b2d7c9e41101b10d6e1099bbd68b6f42ecd95aa659ba2df7c3e39f/11.jpg" data-mid="215515657" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f818216484b2d7c9e41101b10d6e1099bbd68b6f42ecd95aa659ba2df7c3e39f/11.jpg" /> Cantù, which is relatively far from motorways, enjoys the presence of two railway lines that cross it, one mostly on the route between Lecco and Como (but also towards Switzerland), and the other between Milan and Como. The two slopes of the hill (greater on the West-East line and lesser on the North-South axis, ridge and mid-slope lines) are associated with two different mechanisms of penetration towards the center, with the identification of two different axial systems: Transversal axes of fast and vehicular penetration, and Longitudinal ridge axes with slow and sustainable mobility. A series of roads which from East to West connect the residential and external areas to the center and on which stand the main parking area, have to be conceived more and more according to the logic of interchange points. The stepped conformation of the hill (partly natural and partly shaped by man over the centuries) can accommodate hybrid interchange spaces by mixing the numerous car parks with spaces where more flexibility can be provided by interpreting them as actual balconies overlooking the valley.. The axes of greater pedestrian, cycling, and public traffic, in addition to innervating the center, will see an interchange towards the two stations, strengthening the shuttle network between the two stations and the center, tracing the historical foundations of the tram route that once connected Cantù with Como and Asnago. The aim is the reduction of traffic enhancing pedestrian paths and neighborhood proximity, striking a balance between transport systems by understanding the reality of a transition that cannot be radical and sudden, but which must be put into operation today to determine the quality of tomorrow's public space. See more