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Piazza Transcalpina / TRG Europe competition in Gorizia/Nova Gorica

\ a space fiction on the future of cities

\ the masterplan of the border zones:

The void as an opportunity

Beyond any planning intention, the actual situation should be considered as an opportunity to step into a future where land consumption is over, and the cities grow by densifying themselves, keeping the existing voids as resources for collective and sustainable life.
Learning from the sequence of existing urban vegetable gardens, the project proposes to keep the existing void envisioning the possibility of a shared and productive space.

A connective space

Gorizia and Nova Gorica will continue to grow on themselves, settling along the margins of a void that will become the new center, a green heart for the two cities and a connective space where to extend the actual urban framework.
No need for exceptional and muscular architecture to create a link between the old centers, rather a sequence of small bridges to overpass the few railway tracks that will remain, to create a network of possibilities for crossing, encounter and exchange between the cities.

A productive ground

More than a leisure park, this central park in between the cities should be a space for new modes of production, open, diffused and molecular, sustainable, technologically advanced.
A new type of public space, a park made of a sequence of cultivated fields where to experiment innovation tehnologies for agriculture, punctuated by advanced greenhouses and fablabs accessible to companies with high added value, small buildings open to a multiplicity of public paths and spaces.

\ the Europe Square and the Epicenter

A light and open architecture

In consideration of the quality of the existing station and green landscape, the new building minimizes its impact by placing underground all the activities that require controlled access, lighting and ventilation (auditorium, exhibition spaces), while keeping overground the spaces dedicated to more public activities (accueil, café, shop/multipurpouse and educational spaces).
The spirit that animates the new square and the building is that of a permanent fair, where Europe stages continuously its constituent plural values.

Plan and elevation on Europe Square

An interactive public space

While the lamps in the square are powered by micro wind turbines that evoke a gathering of national flags, both the benches on the square and the walls in the exhibition space can move and can be arranged in multiple configurations. Flexibilty and interaction are in fact the key features of the Epicenter and the Europe square to transform the building and the surrounding spaces considered as a whole in a field of possibility, an everchanging stage for the community and its various partners and sponsors.

Main entrance of the Epicenter on Europe Square

Entering the Epicenter

The main underground exhibition space

Credits

A project by Alberto Iacovoni + Luca La Torre / ma0 studio d’architettura
with the collaboration of Lavina Anzini

Palympsest

Rodari school renewal, Bari | ongoing

Schools play a fundamental role in cities, not only for being the place where the future generation are educated, but also because they are expected to welcome public activities beyond the usual  schools hours and become places where the surrounding community can gather.

Commissioned to redesign and improve the entrance spaces and the gym of the Rodari middle school, ma0 has proposed to improve the reception capacity and quality not only for the students’ parents, but also for the visitors that could potentially use the sports facilites beyond school’s schedule.
The entrance to the school becomes with this occasion a collective reference non only for its activities, but also for what could represent symbolically.

The project, beyond improving the functionality of the interior spaces, reshapes the ground of the entrance court with a continuous ramp and a series of steps to access the new gym entrance and modifies deeply the interface between inside and outside.

A  new portico works as a communicative infrastructure to be used and appropriated both by the school and the students.

This palympsest can accomodate different medias and objects that can be replaced  during the year, and trigger a playful interaction with its users that can sit in, hide behind and peek trough its various openings.

Plan of the new intervention with the redesign of the access ramps the gym interiors and the new portico.

The access to the school before and after the renewal.

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Palympsest | Rodari middle school renewal

Client: Comune di Bari
design team:
ma0 studio d’architettura
Ing. Maurizio Franco

with Roberto Vincenzo Iossa

 

Grand Hotel Roma

It’s been a while, but the issue is probably hotter today than in january, and not only for weather conditions.

Photo-©-Gianluca-Di-Ioia

Grand Hotel Roma is an installation we made for the 999 domande sull’abitare at the Triennale in Milan, a room of an imaginary hotel that illustrates different ways  of hosting migrants, able to create public space that appears impossible to implementby institutions. Projects such as the Ararat Curd cultural center – developed by Stalker in an old slaughterhouse; or Space Metropoliz – the former susage factory squatted by homeless coming from different places and transformed by artists into the magnificient MAAM – Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove; or even Hotel Africa, a self-managed and multifunctional space in an abandoned building near the Tiburtina station.

 

 

Sharing Mobility National Conference

Instant installation of the conference hall for the second national meeting on sharing mobility, Rome, Stazione Termini, march 27.

Just traffic signs, some of them conceived on purpose!

Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

 

Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

ph. Domenico Pastore

ph. Mario Ferrara

ma0 in “Divina Sezione, Larchitettura italiana per la Divina Commedia” now on show at the Reggia in Caserta.

Construction of a school

ma0 won the second prize in a competition for a school in the province of Macerata, in one of the Innovative Schools competition promoted by the Italian Ministry of Education.

In the origin of the word school – σχολή – space and time are a necessary condition for speculation and formation.
Combining space and time means constructing an open and evolutionary architectural body, able to offer free spaces for free activities.

As in the painting by Piero di Cosimo Construction of a building, the school is an intelligent entity open to multiple uses, an active field, laboratory and theater of events and activities, permanent and temporary.
It is an informal space for learning, experimentation, space design and construction.

The public space, the matrix of the whole system of relations, moves from the horizontal plane of the field to the vertical one of the inhabited wall, a bioclimatic border that welcomes open and connective teaching environments, the nursery of the new approaches to pedagogy, the informal place for research, spirit of initiative , empowerment and interpersonal exchange.

Masterplan of the new intervention integrated with the existing builindgs

First floor plan.

Elevations and sections

The inhabited wall

View from the gym towards the hall and the field

Perspective section through gym, hall and field

The field

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Costruzione di una scuola
Concorso Scuole Innovative – Provincia di Macerata

date: 2016
design team: ma0 with Gabriella Raggi
bioclimatic consultant: Francesco Bedeschi
site: Macerata
result: second prize
collaboraors: Domenica Fiorini, Marc Carbonell, Carlotta Cannucciari. Paola Quarta

Best wishes

Parco Matusa ongoing @ Frosinone

Best wishes for a constructive 2018

 

Cross the Streets @ Domus

https://www.domusweb.it/en/news/2017/06/05/ma0_cross_the_streets.html

 

Cross the Streets

Other shots by Alberto Iacovoni…

Cross the Streets @ Macro

A short walk in the Cross the Streets exhibition @ MACRO in Rome, with the beautiful photos  by Simon d’Exea.