area 104 – introverted architecture

foto by Antonio Ottomanelli photo attestation of Sant‘Eusanio Forconese Villa Sant‘Angelo and Casentino on April 17 2009. The question of reconstruction and existing buildings Every time an old town or any…

Herzog & de Meuron, Tate Modern London, 2000 – photo by Margherita Spiluttini While the idea that architecture shows its essence through its façade, its outer appearance, cannot be denied, neither can it…

Invisible architecture The aim of architecture is to construct spaces that are suitable for people to go about their lives. Through the physical consistency of structures, the architect, in actual…

museo del tesoro di San Lorenzo photo by Pietro Savorelli I will here attempt to analyse how many signs of introversion were manifest in the mature phase of Albini in…

To construct a winery for private production and consumption in a singular setting, the beginnings of a vale, at the foot of a mountain, in a protected space, these are…

To construct a winery for private production and consumption in a singular setting, the beginnings of a vale, at the foot of a mountain, in a protected space, these are…

The will to dissimulate the 6000 square meters of this program in the country side landscape was written in the brief of the competition Plan01 won in September 2002. The…

A visit to the Madinat al Zahra archaeological site and the allotment reserved for the museum and offices arouses contradictory emotions. On the one hand, nostalgia for a remote, undiscovered…

The new campus centre of the University of Ewha will be completed in May 2008 and will accommodate 20000 students. It includes spaces for study and sport, offices, a cinema…

Architecture is like music…Building in a new neighbourhood is a risk – a risk that has often proved fatal in recent decades. When it is impossible to use a built…

The university complex of Deusto has always played a very important role in the configuration of the left bank of the Dando river, as witness of the civic vocation the…

It is an apartment building in Okurayama near the station consisting of 9 dwelling units, each about 50 smq. Rather than build as many units as possible given the site…

A box open to the sky We built a square box composed of nine smaller squares. The center square emerges to bring light from the heights of the vestibule. The…

The form of the Transformer is derived from a Tetrahedron and when rotated each side facilitates a different program. The programs envisioned include the Prada Waist down Exhibition, an art…

Amidst the olive trees and vineyards of Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico, Tercio Winery is located adjacent to the previously completed project. Perpendicular to each other, the buildings form a dialogue…

This site is located in a quiet residential region reclaimed on a hill of Yokohama. With neighboring houses lined very close together, this flag-shaped site meets a road at a…

The commission was received from a real estate firm which wanted the design of a repeatable house, possible of being sited on a slope with 25% average gradient. The offer…

The amphitheater house is built in Hydra, a traditional small town, situated in the homonymous island, close to Piraeus, the port of Athens. The building was built above the ruins…

Joao Alves and Alessandro Tessari: Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra, “Andalucía de Arquitectura 2007” Prize. This is an award to your professional path of development. We would like to start this conversation by…