W038_CRUCIVERBA_11 Grammichele (CT), 2011 Addizione villa unifamiliare

L’ampliamento della casa esistente è costruito per giustapposizione di volumi seplici. Il corpo centrale più alto, definito da 8 pilastri e una piastra in c.a. a faccia vista si pone come baricentro della nuova configurazione.

 La facciata principale è definita da due muri a “L” aperti in forma concava su un giardino cresciuto sui resti di una fondazione. Si tratta di un frammento dell’ultimo volume che mostra in facciata le superfici interne, mentre le pareti esterne in tufo si ritrovano nello spazio domestico della nuova casa.

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AGAMENNONE_12 Giampilieri, Messina (ME), 2012 Briglia selettiva

TERRITORI COMPLESSI

Una stretta città continua si distende senza sosta a sud di Messina per cinquanta chilometri, compressa tra la linea di costa e le montagne che si impennano rapidamente. La densa occupazione edilizia ha saturato ogni spazio cancellando nel tempo il letto di torrenti e fi umare ormai dimenticate sotto il lastricato di vecchie tombinature. Questa città lineare è alimentata dalle stringhe delle infrastrutture che corrono a livelli diversi intrecciandosi.

Le enormi quantità di acqua e fango precipitate nella notte del 1° Ottobre 2009 lasciano presagire un futuro prossimo in cui erosioni e smottamenti continui generano materie impreviste per nuovi paesaggi.

Il tempo breve dell’abitare si coniuga con il tempo lungo dei cicli naturali. L’azione dirompente delle frane apre gli alvei torrentizi dentro la densità consolidata dei paesi anche più antichi. L’evento imprevisto ridisegna i margini degli spazi urbani attraverso i movimenti della gente che si raccoglie nei punti più sicuri. Da quel momento la geografi a dei luoghi familiari muta radicalmente e i dati conosciuti si dispongono in sequenza su un nuovo foglio bianco.

L’emergenza è una sospensione del tempo che impone un ripensamento sulla durata delle trasformazioni e sul ruolo delle architetture: occorre pensare rapide azioni dentro visioni a lungo termine.

Il progetto misura le questioni e individua le soluzioni possibili.

AGAMENNONE

Il collasso è in grado di porre l’obiettivo della messa in sicurezza, in modo da declinarla con la scoperta di altri modi per rigenerare parti di città o di paesaggio, cogliendo l’occasione per farle appartenere con più forza alla contemporaneità?

Una briglia selettiva e un canale fugatore diventano terreno di sperimentazione attiva e laboratorio di sviluppo futuro sostenibile della città; un nuovo collegamento urbano in quota e la ricerca costante di rendere gli spazi della tecnica nuove forme di abitare il territorio.

 

                                          Foto di Peppe Maisto                                                                 

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MIMETICA _ Ponte Schiavo, Messina (ME), 2012 Briglia selettiva _ Nuova piazza

Il progetto si sviluppa da monte a valle fino alla costa urbanizzata. Sulla linea della sezione si articolano una serie di interventi che vanno dalla scala del paesaggio con la sistemazione del grande muro in c.a. rivestito da una pelle mimetica dipinta e delle briglie selettive realizzate con gabbionate di pietra locale, alla scala urbana con la sistemazione di una piccola piazza che declina in forma domestica alcuni elementi del catalogo generale definito dal progetto di coordinamento.

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CANTIERE IDENTITA' VISIVA Contest di progetto grafico 2/9 settembre 2013

L’obiettivo del contest è orientato a definire l’identità visiva della Scuola di Architettura di Siracusa attraverso un processo di disvelamento dei caratteri e di condivisione di un’immagine rappresentativa efficace a migliorare la visibilità della scuola e delle sue attività e ricerche.

SCARICA IL BANDO

Il Contest si svolge da 2 al 9 settembre 2013 presso la sede della Scuola di Architettura di Siracusa e si articola in 5 laboratori curati da:
Carlo Coniglio | i-white design
Cinzia Ferrara | ferrarastudio
Gianni Latino | studiolatino
Walter Silvestrini | PixelXpixeL
Francesco Trovato | Officina22

Ogni laboratorio prepara 3 proposte di progetto per il logo e l’immagine coordinata. I risultati saranno presentati al temine del contest a una giuria di visitings che seleziona 3 proposte di progetto.

Giuria:
Giovanni Anceschi
Francesco Garofalo
Mario Lupano
Bruno Monguzzi
(membri esterni)

Osvaldo Amodeo
Tommaso Bartoloni
Francesca Castagneto
Paola Barbera
Zaira Dato
Edoardo Dotto
Vittorio Fiore
Nicola Impollonia
Bruno Messina
Marco Navarra 
Carmelo Nigrelli
(membri interni)

Deadline: 19 agosto 2013.
Organizzato da SUxArSi
Info: antoniorizzo@icsplat.org

ICSplat announces the winners of New Concordia Island Contest

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ANDREA BARTOLI for NEW CONCORDIA ISLAND Contest /// Unpublished drawings and images of the shipwreck available after registration \\\

Andrea Bartoli_FARM Cultural Park
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NEW CONCORDIA ISLAND CONTEST il venerdì di Repubblica n.1278 - 14 settembre 2012 Che fare per recuperare la Costa Concordia? Le idee vengono a galla di Paola Nicita

LUCA EMANUELI for NEW CONCORDIA ISLAND Contest /// Unpublished drawings and images of the shipwreck available after registration \\\

ipernaturale

a clarification the distinction between natural and artificial is not useful. arguments focused on the dichotomy between these terms only lead to confusion. talking about nature, the conclusions of the reasoning becomes too often an act of faith.

with the semi-sunken Concordia at the Giglio island we are faced with a new landscape, an altered environment due to the accident, the result of an error, and in front of which, even if we presume its removal, the most predictable scenario, we are forced to think about. beyond what will be the destiny of the wreck (the removal of the error without a trace, then the recovery and recycling; the wreck as part of the landscape, and the displacement of the problem, namely the wreck) anyway the environment, never static and immutable, is affected by a sudden and violent change, and the temporary presence of the Concordia opens the reasoning on possible operating methods of interventions and programming to be approached, on an environmental scale, with a pragmatic attitude.

potentially, even if in a temporary form, it's an hypernatural environment.

for hypernatural environments we mean artificial environments that generate new landscapes, new sustainable habitats, radicals scenarios of growth. interventions whose aims are extremely pragmatic and so exasperated that blend and structure new relationships with the environment.

the scale makes visible the transformation of the territory, seen as an opportunity to think about new environments suspended between natural and artificial, uncommon landscapes, where it is possible to experiment new approaches. without fear of the materials used, but exploiting and directing their possible interactions to initiate more sustainable processes, with lower impact, where nature and time play a leading role and they are not a banal background or an immutable context to preserve or restore.

an environment is hypernatural when this process is designed, programmed in time with the awareness that the interaction with nature leads to the unpredictability of some results that may, however, create new scenarios. time acts on the environment that can not degrade but only evolve.

luca emanueli con carlo ruyblas lesi e gianni lobosco

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FRANÇOIS ROCHE | R&Sie(n) for NEW CONCORDIA ISLAND Contest /// Unpublished drawings and images of the shipwreck available after registration \\\

"gre(Y)en"

This seems to be a history of the stuttering between Green and Grey, between chlorophyll addiction, the dream of an ideal biotope re-primitivised and re-artificialized in pursuit of paradise lost, of Eden Park lost, a story to calm the fears of little boys and girls, and Grey, the dark grey that never appears in the visible spectrum (“The Devilʼs best trick is to convince you that he doesnʼt exist,” wrote Baudelaire1), an antagonistic stealthy force, an embedded demon – a mix of contradictory human desires emerging from the mud, from permanent, unpredictable and relentless conflicts, factors of domination and servitude, destruction and emergences, sparking unlimited quantities of arrogance and illusion, where the notion of success or failure depends on a kind of absurd Pendulum2 swing between life and death, caressing the boundaries of both in an infinitely unstable movement, polymerizing ugliness and beauty, obstacle and possibilities, waste materials and efflorescence, threats and protection, the fantasy of technology and revenge on nature, all knotted together in a process of becoming, a never-ending movement... where we glide into a silky, strange sensation that scares and caresses you... that scares and caresses you...
We are at a crossroads. Faced with the autistic, blind, deaf and mute violence of our technological, industrial and mercantile machinery and our own human servo-mechanism, nature reacts... with violence and without warning, in a flattering of the original chaos... a mutiny against human organization... Gaia seems to take revenge (Katrina, El Niño, Hurricane Jeanne, the cyclones Thomas and Nargis, the Xynthia storm and the Ewiniar typhoon, the Indonesian and Japanese earthquakes with their collateral tsunamis all the way to Fukujima... a chain of devastating incertitude, unpredictable despite our seismographic sciences). The elements rage, and the gods, so quick to pardon our folly, seem powerless to appease the rebellion, armed with infernal power...
Nature is not an ideological “greenwashing” for backyard politics, nor the millenarian, eschatologist dream of Eden Park from which we have very fortunately escaped, freeing ourselves from gatherer- hedonist blindness, to negotiate consciousness with the hostile dark forces stuck in the depths of the forest...
But these forces have come out of their hiding places, their biotopes, they are invading the spaces that Man had thought he could take without giving anything in exchange, with no transaction. War has been declared... natureʼs revenge is not a bedtime story for innocent brains... our bellicose enemy operates openly... in the light of day... the ultimate arrogance.
How could we reveal the conflict between the strategies of “knowledge and domination” of the former and the monstrous wild beauty of the latterʼs destructive power in this field of an unpredictable battle, cleared of all that greenish moralistic junk and its post- capitalist allure...

F Roche / Part of a text for “Global Design NYU 2012” / London

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1
“Mes chers frères, n'oubliez jamais, quand vous entendrez vanter le progrès des lumières, que la plus
belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas,” Baudelaire, “Spleen of Paris”, 1858.
2
Edgar Allen Poeʼs “The Pit and the Pendulum” was the first Bachelor Machines scenario.

KAMIEL KLAASSE | NL Architects for NEW CONCORDIA ISLAND Contest /// Unpublished drawings and images of the shipwreck available after registration \\\

"Prices for certain building materials are skyrocketing. Copper and Bronze become so valuable that they now trigger specific criminal behavior. So-called ‘copper thieves’ risk their lives in a hunt for electricity cables, lightning rods, water spouts or railway conduits.
Especially Art in Public Space has proofed an easy target. Large sculptures were blatantly lifted from their bases to be melted back into raw material. In 2005 a 2000kg Henry Moore Sculpture was stolen near London. It might now be a door handle or a window profile…
Recently 7 bronzes were snatched from the garden of the Singer Museum in Laren among which a cast of Rodin’s Le Penseur. The robbers were caught in the middle of cutting up the sculpture into smaller pieces that would fit in the oven. Their lack of anatomic knowledge turned The Thinker into a horrific version of the Venus de Milo. Virtual Mutilation: looking at the sculpture actually hurts… a bizarre form of phantom pain.
Restoration took two years; an incredible effort, stunning recovery. But in a way the disfigured sculpture was even more compelling: a painful effigy of monumental stupidity….
The Concordia could perhaps be understood in a similar way. Could it turn us into Thinker?
Decommissioned ships are now sometimes used to spark marine life: sunken vessels turn into artificial reef. Could the Concordia form a fertile ground for a new biotope?
Will it be possible to imagine new functionality or new meaning for this monumental wreck? Can new life emerge from this tragedy?"

Kamiel Klaasse

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image: Rodin Penseur Wrecked

LORI NIX for NEW CONCORDIA ISLAND Contest /// Unpublished drawings and images of the shipwreck available after registration \\\

Iʼve always tried to turn unexpected or unfortunate situations into something positive. Rather than struggle to remove the shell of the Concordia, I would like to see the ship stay where it is, and be repurposed into a nature preserve. Empty subway cars are often used to offer shelter and rebuild populations of sea life. This ship could offer the same benefit to marine life in addition to providing a destination for adventurous divers. Above the waterline, they could introduce indigenous plants and other native species of bird and small animal to create a new habitat.


Lori Nix

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image: Lori Nix, Botanic Garden, 2008

NEW CONCORDIA ISLAND CONTEST

New Concordia Island Contest 

is a competition for ideas responding to the shipwreck of the Costa Concordia, a cruise ship of the Costa Crociere company, out from regular service after the shipwreck on the night of January 13, 2012 on the Giglio Island. The competition has the aim of stimulating new future visions for the Giglio Island and the shipwreck which will become as part of the same landscape and with the same identity. 

Recently the news reports that the exploration in the shipwreck to finding survivors and the phases of removing fuel have been concluded. The cleaning of the seabed around the shipwreck is currently underway and the final plan for the removal of the shipwreck will be released soon and could last for more than a year. At the same time faults in the movements of the hull are neither reported, nor in the research environment survey results of any pollutants escaping from the shipwreck and dispersed in surrounding sea. How to rethink the future of these places? What could the shipwreck become if it remains aground for a period longer than a year? How to program the steps for disassembling and dragging the parts? How to work with the shipwreck to build a form of memory? Is there any way to reconsider the Giglio island with this new outcropping rock that has changed the coastline?

Panel

Cristina Díaz Moreno - Efrén García Grinda AMID (cero9) _ Madrid
Andrea Bartoli FARM CULTURAL PARK _ Favara
Luca Emanueli SEALINElab _ Ferrara
Eva Franch i Gilabert STOREFRONT Director _ NY
Joseph Grima DOMUS Director _ Milan
Kamiel Klaasse NLarchitects _ Amsterdam
Geoff Manaugh BLDGBLOG _ Los Angeles
Marco Navarra NOWA _ Caltagirone
Lori Nix _ NY
François Roche R&Sie(n) _ Paris
Italo Rota _ Milan
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Atelier Bow-Wow _ Tokyo

Awards

1st place € 1500,00

FARM Special Prize € 1000,00
Special Prize € 500,00
and 7 Honorable Mentions

download notice of competition and submit your proposal www.icsplat.org 
DOMUS is media partner www.domusweb.it

HERE WE GO!

PICCOLA CAVA instant design lab

WORKSHOP PICCOLA CAVA 31/05-03/06

WORKSHOP PICCOLA CAVA

INSTANT DESIGN LAB FOR THE VALLEY OF THE TEMPLES, AGRIGENTO

Archaeological and Landscape Park of the Valley of the Temples

The broad and unresolved question of the archaeological sites in Sicily needs an approach that is both pragmatic and visionary. On the one hand we must confront the current economic and social conditions worsened by the current crisis, on the other it is necessary to imagine other forms of architecture and dwelling places, cities and landscapes. We need a way of designing that is going to focus on the long-term vision but at the same time develops itself in the areas beside the individuals interested in a continuous dialogue.
In these circumstances it seems necessary to try a different model of production of architectural and urban design, imagining other ways and times in the relationship between client and designer.

Piccola cava

Piccola cava approach a field of exploration where architectural and archaeological practices overlap and mix with contemporary art. The activities on site are coordinated by a technical project instant Lab wich aims to build a space organized as a place for rest and reflection, dedicated to outdoor activities like reading and listening to music. The formal patterns become construction tools for project ideas in a process that aims to integrate the economic and technical level with architectural and landscape quality in order to imagine new ways of living.

NEW CONCORDIA ISLAND ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

NEW CONCORDIA ISLAND ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Collapse is the measure of erasing.

Can architecture suspend the erasing at the margins of disaster? Otherwise, can it trigger mechanisms of metabolism and coexistence with everyday life?

Why the reaction to the trauma is the removal of objects that can evoke the image of tragedy?

Why we use to rebuild previous states, totally ignoring that every tradition is a cultural invention?

Why do the answers to the tragedies exclude the possibility of transforming traumatic events in new visions for the future?

Why don't the erasure and the dispersion offer new scenario of intermediate transformation?

The program to participate at NEW CONCORDIA ISLAND ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION soon on www.icsplat.org

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