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konzerthaus munchen

Architectural remains bring to a reflection on time and the reflection on time leads to memory value. For every architecture period the new architecture necessarily has a confrontation with the old one so necessarily we must think in our proposal just as one more stage in time, not as a definitive stage.
We rethink the actual area of Fori Imperiali, from an exclusively protected archaeological portion, to a part of the city that needs to be revitalised in an orderly way. For this reason, the area is supposed to be brought back to its condition of urban portion, permeable to fluxes that come from the surrounding city. The entire archaeological level is imagined as a “stone garden”, no more enjoyed only visually from above, thanks to the recovery of the unitary character and the orthogonal geometry of the Forum, but also used in its own level. There is a continuity of the city in both levels where the visual connection between Piazza Venezia and the Colosseo is maintained, whereas a new Museum for the Forma Urbis recalls an original topography. The archaeological fragments, now scattered, will be reallocated in light structures that redefine the plan of each Forum.

An open and structured city that confirm the value of the spatial and functional complexity of european city fabrics.
A city that is designed starting from the ground floor, from the open space in-between the buildings. An articulated space able to give life to a structured sequence of different environments in mutual relation.
A continuous system but at the same time differentiated in relation to the plurality of potential uses and different meanings; a system able to promote the sense of collective and the interaction among the inhabitants.
A city composed of a double system: on one side a pedestal which visually and phisically connect the urban fabric, gives shape to the open public space and hosts all the programs that need a proximity with the city domain; on the other side a system of residential courtyards which defines a more intimate and private space.

The Library is planned as an open, clear and luminous space that floats over the Roman remains. It incorporates both the archaeological vestiges and the geometry of the traces of the contemporary Ljubljana. The four blocks of program are placed around a central void drawn over the Cardus and Decumanus and the resulting perimeter adapts to the current urban grid. This patio organizes the different parts of the Library, while a light skin wraps the ensemble. The gaps between the enveloping façade and the built areas define a series of vertical spaces that look towards the city. The final volumes have different heights, regarding the nearby constructions, and a common folded roof plan unifies them all. Thanks to a perimeter structure that permits the creation of large open areas, interiors are designed as flexible and versatile spaces where the structure rests on a sort of “cantilever tray” that protects the archaeological remains underneath.

Our proposal for Wertheim site in the centre of Berlin is not only the resolution for the octagon shape of Leipziger Platz plan but also it intends to build up a piece of the city, making the most of the planning capacity for the benefit of the city. The mixed uses are set up in a complex building lined up with the city grid that interplays with the nearby constructions and streets permitting public spaces between them. On the ground floor plan, commercial streets and passages, set as grid of streets, invites you to get into the area. From Leipziger Street the building is quiet, but its interior is a beating heart full of light and activity where the public roof terraces can be reached by open mechanical staircases. The dwellings are placed facing south aligned with Voss Strasse and they display vertically to acquire the condition of an independent vertical element with capacity to become an urban landmark. This slender plied volume emerges from the roof garden, with commanding views towards the sky of Berlin.

The Borghetto Flaminio area, between the wood of Villa Borghese and via Flaminia, hosts a media and information centre for cultural events for the 2000 Jubilee. The proposal develops in depth three aspects: the relation of the project with the cliff of Villa Borghese, the definition of open spaces and the measure of the buildings. The program is organised in small pavilions immersed in the pine landscape in a clear and orderly scheme. This fact helps to shape an architectural unit being at the same time diverse in forms, materials and technical means that value the whole. The studios and the workshops are aligned along the base of the slope and also define the elevated piazza in which the rest of the pavilions are placed: music school, auditorium, exhibition area, library and information centre. They are separated from via Flaminia by an archaeological garden that builds up the entrance to the Borghetto area.