ARCHITECTURE

Bad Schörgau – The Badl

January 11, 2021|Architecture|

Bad Schörgau has a centuries-long tradition as a farmer's bath, embedded in the lived culture of the Sarner mountain farmers. The in-house spring was first mentioned as a healing spring in 1624. The historic farmer's bath with tub cells works with the water from the source of the spring and the Re-Nature range of applications around the Sarner mountain pine. The bathroom consists of an entrance area with advice
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House at the Schopfacker

January 11, 2021|Architecture|

The striking landscape of the village of Trogen against the distinctive backdrop of the Appenzell region always demanded a compact settlement structure. The place is characterized by stately homes. Rows of houses that are mostly dense, terraced high-rise residential buildings are based on the simple laws of optimal sun exposure in steeply rising or falling locations. This makes any new building stand out in such a small village, especially when
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Klostergasse Studio

January 11, 2021|Architecture|

After having worked in an old workshop for fifteen years in Dornbirn, I overcame my inner resistance and built a studio for myself and my staff. On more than one occasion during my walks through Bregenz, I noticed near the train station a small derelict building plot with a transformer station that was no longer in operation. With a bit of luck, we were able to purchase the small
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New primary school “Dante Broglio”, Colognola ai Colli

January 8, 2021|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2021 – Winner, Italy, Public and commercial architecture|

Following the hilly profile and the presence of the ideal axis that connects the places of collective life in Colognola, we developed the imprint of the building which is characterized by the compactness of the external front as opposed to the irregular opening of the internal fronts that draw the space of the garden. This dichotomy is also expressed by the coating materials. The external front, already rigid in
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Villa SP, Venice

January 8, 2021|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2021 – Winner, Italy, Residential architecture|

The particularity of the area suggested a building intervention that re-proposes, in the current interpretation, a residential building that can be traced back to an architecture that respects the surrounding natural environment and with references to traditional forms and building techniques.The project therefore aims to the realization of an essential and sculptural architecture through the modeling of a "monolithic" volume where, the external brick wall facing, with light lime plastering,
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Casa Studio Passivehouse, Cesena

January 8, 2021|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2021 – Winner, Italy, Residential architecture|

The project involves the renovation of an existing building through the Passive House international protocol, issued by the Passivhaus institute in Darmstadt. The project involves the residence and the study of architecture of the architect himself. The building has a mixed structure of wood (lamellar and XLAM), steel, reinforced concrete masonry and armed concrete, where every material works at best by exploiting its natural characteristics. The building has such
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Casa Puntara, Ragusa

January 8, 2021|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2021 – Winner, Italy, Residential architecture|

Casa Puntara is a single-family house completed at the end of 2020 in the outskirts of Ragusa, Sicily. The lot overlooks two streets located at different heights from which it is possible to access the residence through two pedestrian entrances, one on each street, and a driveway entrance. The house is composed by 3 different levels differentiated between three different materials: white local stone, at the first floor; white walls
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Villa IE, Piedmont

January 8, 2021|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2021 – Winner, Italy, Residential architecture|

Nestled on the top of a hill,in a plot of about 20,000 sqm, “Villa IE” enjoys a panoramic view of the Piedmont’s Alpsand the plain below. It presents itself as a changing environment where materials and vegetation change over time.The larch shingle roofing and the wooden wall claddingjoined to stone, glass and corten complete the external image of the building that blends in the park where oriental-inspired gardens create connections
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A window on the Langhe, Cigliè

January 8, 2021|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2021 – Winner, Italy, Residential architecture|

The small town of Ciglié is the village chosen by a couple of Rotterdam to get a place in Italy where they could live some months of the year. The 110m2 house is built on a steep slope of 2000 m2. The building appears embedded in the slope of the hill. The volume, closed on three sides, unexpectedly opens out to Mondovì and the Alps. A single large window towards
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A&A house, Sarginesco

January 8, 2021|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2021 – Winner, Italy, Residential architecture|

A&A house is the result of an intense reinterpretation process of an ancient rural building existing in a small urban centre located in the heart of the countryside of the city of Mantua. The old building was demolished, but the new one keeps its memory alive thanks to the archetypal form that recreates its form and reminds us of its nature. This is done through both through the arrangement of
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Casa C, Manduria

January 8, 2021|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2021 – Winner, Italy, Residential architecture|

The project come alive from a survey of the landscape and the social and cultural context, including materials and forms peculiar to the local tradition. The house takes over from a building of the 70’s that was demolished in favor of a new sustainable project which uses innovative technologies with low energy consumption, and which is respectful of the context. The architectural structure is created by a joint of
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Seafront House in Crete, Heraklion, Crete

January 8, 2021|Architecture, BIG SEE Architecture Award 2021 – Winner, Greece, Residential architecture|

With a plan generated by a precise geometry and a section informed by the level differences between the entrance road and the beach front, the impression on arrival is of a house carved out of the landscape. The building is separated from the road by a series of descending gardens, a buffered gorge offering quiet respite, shaded with an arched pergola (incorporating the buildings structural bracing). Descending the stone
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