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NEC PLVS VLTRA

According to the legend, The Pillars of Hercules represented the extreme limits of the known world. The legendary Hercules reached the slopes of two mountains, Calpe and Abila, beyond which no mere mortal could continue. He then decided to split the mountain into two parts, thus creating the two pillars, and he impressed the following inscription: “NEC PLUS ULTRA”.

Project Details

• client: Bologna Water Design 2014
• location: Bologna, Italy
• project: écru architetti
• sponsor: Florim Ceramiche Spa, Floordeco Srl
• timeline: 2014 project | 2014 realization
• state: realized
• type: installation
• program: installation for Bologna Water Design 2014
• photo: © Filippo Cavalli

jalousie

The proposal for the construction of eight new residential buildings in Parma works to achieve an intervention which promote sustainability by a delicate planning approach.

Project Details

• client: private
• location: Botteghino, Parma, Italy
• project: écru architetti
• timeline: 2013 project
• state: under construction
• type: residential building
• program: design for new residential class A buildings

CRI+

The project for the new headquarters of the italian red cross of Scandiano (RE, Italy), is based on the different issue of the contest program me. The solution is specify and geometric, synthesized in a only one essential sign/element that is able to establish a relationship with the surrounding.

Project Details

• client: Italian Red Cross
• location: Scandiano, Reggio Emilia, Italy
• project: écru architetti
• timeline: 2013 contest
• result: -
• type: public building
• program: design contest for a new headquarters of the italian red cross (Reggio Emilia, Italy)

Quinzo Renovation

The intent of the project has been given back to the rural building the original spatial and architectural valour, cleaning it from additions and superfluous which infected aesthetic and functional value.

Project Details

• client: private
• location: Scurano, Parma, Italy
• project: écru architetti
• timeline: 2013, project
• state: -
• type: rural building
• program: private property renovation

INVENA #2

It’s an elementary operation: repaint, disinfect to attend a space, or a territory. We imagined the bench of San Lorenzo plaza as a blood vessel which pumps new blood into the urban space and revitalizes it.

Project Details

• client: Municipality of Parma
• location: Parma, Italy
• project: écru architetti
• timeline: 2013 contest
• result: finalist
• state: work in progress
• type: urban furniture
• program: street art exhibition for “Street Art Contest 2013″ Parma, Italy

INVENA

“The surgeon looked up his eyes, keeping a straight face – are you ready?”

This is the story of a dying architecture put under the reflectors (of an operating theatre) and submitted as the only one and last frontier for the architectural trial.

Project Details

• client: Sella Onlus Foundation
• location: Biella, Italy
• project: écru architetti
• collaborators: Ing. Emanuele Balestra, Ing. Antonio Meo
• timeline: 2013 project | 2013 realization
• state: realized
• type: installation
• program: installation for Federico Maggia 2013 prize “Disused industries. Young architects built ideas”
• photo: © Filippo Cavalli

LOVO

LOVO is a space. A warm-hearted space. A safe space. A rediscovered space. L O V O is also a dimension, but it has no geometry. Egg’s formula was designed by none geometry. Is used “π” to calculate circle and sphere, but there is no reconciliation for the perfect form of life. (Erri De Luca)

Project Details

• client: Sella Onlus Foundation
• location: Biella, Italy
• project: écru architetti
• timeline: 2013 project | 2013 realization
• state: realized
• type: hospitality
• program: design contest and self-building of a shelter for the future biodegradable and temporary hotel in PAMP, Park Agricultural Multifunctional Paduli. (Lecce, Italy)
• photo: © Filippo Cavalli

XX Settembre flat

“XX settembre” is the property renovation of an apartment for a young freelancer, in the inner city of Parma. The purpose of the project was to clean, polish up and evaluate the space so that it can be geometrically precise and perceptible.

Project Details

• client: private
• location: Parma (Italy)
• timeline: 2012 project | 2013 realization
• state: realized
• type: flat
• program: private property renovation
• photo: © Filippo Cavalli

G.R.O.W. in Santa Giulia

Glocal, Relationship, hOrtus, Web are active part of a medicine for sick Santa Giulia neighborhood. We conceived a radical and brave operation, up to standard of this shred of Milan, that tries to draw the line of a new way to live our contemporaneity.

Project Details

• client: AAA architetticercasi
• location: Rogoredo, Milan, Italy
• project: écru architetti
• collaborators: Arch. Pietro Bodria, Arch. Giulio Ghirardi, Laura Cantadori (infographic), Lorenzo Zanni (sociologist)
• timeline: 2013 contest
• result: special jury mention
• type: urban planning
• program: national design contest for a new urban planning of Santa Giulia neighborhood in Rogoredo, Milan, Italy

“Parma Mia” House

The project concern the construction of a new single family home located at the south of Parma into the new “PARMA MIA” neighborhood.

Project Details

• client: private
• location: Parma, Italy
• project: écru architetti
• collaborators: Ilaria Ferrari
• timeline: 2013 project | 2013 realization
• state: under construction
• program: construction of a new private home

Natural Hystory Museum

The design of the museum exhibition follows the scientific program, based on the idea of museum as a scientific open laboratory and as a work hand-tool to experiment and make knowledge. The section of the “Venice lagoon” must be a vehicle of knowledge oriented to extend the visitor live experience.

Project Details

• client: MUVE
• location: Fondaco dei Turchi, Venice, Italy
• project: écru architetti, mc2, Arch. Alessandro Gattara
• timeline: 2013 contest
• result: -
• type: museum
• program: national design contest by invitation for the set-up exhibition of Laguna section into the Natural Hystory Museum of Venice, Italy

PALLA

The project is designed as a porous architectural system which engage with the earlier building. The parasite has different formal and spatial features in comparison to the old architecture, but is closely dependent from it: the micro architecture project gives a new relevance to the old building and becomes the new source for a reciprocal valorization.

Project Details

• client: National Granadier of Sardinia association
• location: Vicenza, Italy
• project: écru architetti
• timeline: 2013 contest
• result: -
• type: facade
• program: national design contest for a new innovative shell for building “5 Palladio” (Vicenza, Italy)

Rheinkai500

The project respond to the require of equip the lot with a new building which can converse with the urban and landscape scale, inserting itself into the background of Mainz with balance. Particularly, the connection with the new master plan of the city and the river is recap from the construction following compositional logics, distribution and material technology.

Project Details

• client: Kairos Grundbesitzentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH
• location: Mainz, Germany
• project: écru architetti, emilio faroldi associati
• collaborators: Silas Burger, Ilaria Ferrari, Michele Fiaschi
• timeline: 2012 contest
• result: first prize ex aequo
• type: multifunctional building
• program: international design contest by invitation for a multifunctional building (residence+commercial+offices)

Nuova Malga Fosse

The philosophy of the project want to establish a dialog with the north italic typologies shelter; even architectonic languages also their inspiration elements. The architectonic research analyzed the perception issue , gazes, and views of surrounding mountain landscape.

Project Details

• client: Department of State forests, Province of Trento
• location: Rolle pass, Trento, Italy
• project: écru architetti, studio rinnova
• timeline: 2012 contest
• result: third prize
• type: hospitality
• program: national contest for the renovation of Malga Fosse in Siror (Passo Rolle). Design for an hospitality building with restaurant and rooms

Fruit Juice Factory

The project concern the realization of a new facade system and the landscape design of a new fruit juice factory in Kopys, Belarus.

Project Details

• client: Fabintech United Company
• location: Kopys, Belarus
• project: écru architetti
• timeline: 2012 contest
• state: -
• type: facade and landscape
• program: restyling of a new fruit juice factory in Kopys, Belarus