place Aeroporto di Brindisi / Brindisi Airport

year 2019

client TPP Teatro Pubblico Pugliese

The exhibition “The Sea of Intimacy” has been on show for a year, from July 2019 to July 2020, in the complex spaces of the airport of Brindisi in Puglia after a period of exhibition in Trieste.

The objects exposed deal with the treasures from the Apulian coast, but not only, and are the result of a meticulous and accurate work of selection.

In the articulate hallways of the airport terminal there are amphoras, wrecks and rests of ships, objects and earthenware used by mariners, sculptures and digital materials appropriately disposed for the viewer.

The show is organized in various steps on two levels: ground floor and first floor. The introductive panel is to be found on the outside in the immediate vicinity of the entrance to the airport, followed by a series of exhibition points dislocated in various spaces on the ground floor and characterized by a common formal design: curve-shaped vertical panels that let come to mind the waves of the sea hold the showcases with the exhibits and the screens for documentaries (video in loop). The panels are set on a printed film with images of the sea and indications of the title of the specific section of the exhibition.

The flow of the exhibition is interrupted by a particular fitting for a space with double height which connects the first and the second level of the exhibition: the reconstruction of a cave and two showcases in the form of a ship section, to explain how the amphoras were positioned and transported in these in the ancient times.

The double height allows for curved panels with images of the sea to be suspended from an iron grid and the profile of a diver at work. In the same space a three-sided pole is provided with video screens.

The reconstruction of the cave uses the system of the curve shaped panels to form a more intimate space in which to admire a projection on floor and walls which reproduces the aspect of the bottom of the sea.

project

Giovanni Andrea Panizon

Collaborations

Martina di Prisco, starassociati

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place  Tarvisio (UD)

year  2019

client  Società Alpina delle Giulie

The group Società Alpina delle Giulie section of Trieste of the Club Alpino Italiano, has launched a competition of ideas “by invitation” for the renovation of the lodge named Rifugio Guido Corsi in the town of Tarvisio (UD). The lodge Guido Corsi is placed on a rocky terrace in the center of a wide valley surrounded by the southern sides of the Jôf Fuârt, with a view on the Canin Mountains.

The project is giving a solution that maintains and reuses the entire existing structure. At the same time the project contains an extension of the area within the limit of the 30% of the gross limit surface that allows to improve the general fruition of the lodge and to reach the required functional comfort’s goals.

The concept of the project is characterized by the addition of a new volume on the back of the building that can host new spaces at the different levels integrating the remaking of the roof and the redefinition of the side’s zones of the accesses and of the distribution.

The project proposes a solution that aim, through a unique addition to the pre-existing structure, of integrating the different aspects such as the preservation of the historic image of the building, the quality of the composition of the extension in relation to the pre-existence, the specific aesthetic and its presence in the landscape, the sense of the spatial organization, the constrution’s and the structure’s quality, the quality of the outdoor and of the indoor environments of the lodge.

The objectives of the renovation project can thus be summarized as follow:

• The achievement of the capacity of 66 guests;
• The creation of 75 seats for the refreshment service;
• The creation of 55 seats in the outdoor area;
• The creation of 2 beds for the managers and 4 beds for the collaborators;
• The optimization and the renovation of the existing spaces and their update to the current standards;
• The creation of spaces to host the following functions: dining room/ “Stube”, bar area, kitchen, pantry with refrigerating room, bedrooms with 4/6/8 beds, bedrooms for the managers and for the collaborators, guests bathrooms (of which at least one with direct access from the outside), bathrooms for the manager/collaborators, wardrobe and shoes storage, drying room, storage room and broom closet, warehouse, technical room;
• The improvement of the energetic efficiency of the existing building’s elements (roof, doors and windows);
• The arrangement of an independent winter space;
• The extension of the lodge’s space;
• The renovation of the systems.

Competition of ideas, ranked third

project

G STUDIO STP + starassociati + C. Depaoli + S. Girodo +

A. Bruzzone + FAPA Engineering + Prof. R. Dini

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Place Merano

Year 2019

CLIENT Merano Arte/Kunst Meran

Born in Trento in 1959, Maurizio Martinelli* completed his architectural studied at Venice’s IUAV University in 1987, then worked for several years as a lecturer and researcher  for MediAterraneo laboratory coordinated by Gaddo Morpurgo. In the 1990s he moved closer to design, especially to the new minimalism that emerged in those years in respomse to the post– modernism of the previous decade. The many young designers who took part in this turnaround wanted to replace the whimsical anarchy of the style of the 1980s with a method that, following on from the twentieth-century rationalism, was based upon the exploration of  lean, essential forms. In 1994, together with Gabriella Dorligo and Giovanni Panizon, Martinelli presented a series of prototypes at the “Intermezzo” exhibition in Trieste, some of which were subsequently produced by the furniture Company Cappellini.

The series, which included various types of furniture, offered new combinations for furnishings, with unexpected new pairings to undermine the usual distinctions: wastepaper basket– chair, picture-chair, shelf-chair. According to the critic Cristina Morozzi, their inclusion in the exhibition catalog emphasized that these were not “multifunctional complex” but rather “simple object whose simplicity has internalized complexity”. The exhibition also represented a sort of test run for a methodology of design that Martineli continued to apply, although he thereafter worked almost exclusively as an architect. His umbrella stand, “Umbrella”, designed together with Panizon in 2000, received the Good Design Award and was included in the permanent exhibition at the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design. The “Boa” chair, made of narrow beech veneer strips and produced by the Emmemobili furniture company in Cantù near Como in 1996, best reflects the explorative work of Martinelli, Dorligo, and Panizon in the 1990s.

Project

arch. Maurizio Martinelli con Gabriella Dorligo e Giovanni Andrea Panizon

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CHAIR BOA

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Place  Lignano Sabbiadoro (UD)

Year  2019

Client  Comune di Lignano Sabbiadoro

Gino Ursella square is the product of a vision dating back to the 1960s: the modern holiday city. It also contains a message of seaside enthusiasm typical of that time and expressed through the brightness of the colors but also through the magnificence of the buildings themselves. It was an urbanistic vision to emphasize the architecture of the city with porticos and squares where to walk and meet other vacationers.

The proposed redevelopment project for the competition aims at bringing back to life this optimism reshaping the atmosphere with the colors of the place in a contemporary way: simple, moderate and evocative for the tourists but also for the residents who are living in this place all year round. The color is thus the strategic tools of the proposal following this message of optimism and the place’s morphology but in line with nowadays’ spirit of frugality. Nowadays above all means attention to the environment, to the re-use and to stylistic sobriety.

The project proposal is based on an organization of the space into tree “rooms” and includes:

• The creation of a flexible space in the central “room” upgrading the existing environment conditions keeping the current functions.
• The recognition of the square as the heart and the connecting place of a larger system in the urban context.
• The constitution of a space as an attractor of new representative and aggregative functions in the two green “heads”.
• The creation of a place with a strong identity in line with the history of the place itself, but of easy management and maintenance.
• The making of a dynamic space able to change its look during the day or longer periods (weekly or seasonally).
• The replacement of the high lampposts with their cold an alienating light by shorter and more densely distributed lampposts that generate a more intimate and spread light. These lampposts will be supplied with low consumption devices based on led technology.

Flexibility is the key word of the project. The square is imagined as a space that can host different activities for the everyday users, and easily adjust to events and to other specific needs that may occur.

The central “room” of the square is a large empty space able to accommodate to the different functions that will be activated time by time in the square. A place however able to re-activate convivial collective processes where to meet, wait and stop-by. A place open to everyone: market, music, parties, events, etc.

The two heads of the square are thought as “green rooms”, space for shadow and rest characterized by a calibrated variety of trees, small bushes, and ground covering plants. In these areas many seats will be located next to the green tank, in a way to preserve the needs of the pedestrians.

The square is connected through a ramp to the paths directed to the sea.

project

TAM associati + starassociati + Tecnoprogetti + VB studio tecnico + geol. Bruno Grego

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Ursella square  Competition Project

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Place Trieste

Year 2018

Client Private

The building complex object of the recovery project was built in 1913 and consists of two buildings, subject to monumental restrictions and intended to accommodate new housing units and a space dedicated to the “place of memory” with the aim of a general restoration. and renovation.

The palace, formerly the seat of the Austro-Hungarian, Italian and German gendarmerie, was from December 1944 to April 1945 the seat of the Special Inspectorate of Public Security of Venezia Giulia which was responsible for numerous crimes and particular violence. The intervention therefore had to reconcile a new intended use for residential purposes with the presence of the monument and its preservation as a place of memory.

The complex consists of two buildings separated by an internal courtyard, the building n°6, overlooking via Cologna, and the building n°8 reachable through the entrance of n°6. The building n°8 is also equipped with a small courtyard at the back.

The two buildings are developed for three and four floors above ground and were built with vertical bearing structures in stone and solid bricks while the floors are in wood and the roof is pitched with a traditional red tile roof. For both buildings, the internal connection system is respected, the vertical paths of the stairwells and the horizontal paths of the corridors perform the function of distribution reference and are adapted to contemporary standards with the inclusion of a lift in both buildings.

The facade on via Cologna of the building n°6 is characterized by a high plinth in artificial stone while the ground floor is treated with characteristic parallel horizontal bands in plaster, the two upper floors are also finished with smooth plaster. The façade is marked by two rows of windows placed at regular intervals. Each window has a molded frame in artificial stone and is protected at the top by a linear slope which is also molded. The door, made of artificial stone, is framed by two flat pilasters on which a false architrave rests, above which two Corinthian-style corbels support a pediment with a curvilinear profile.

The facade on the internal courtyard of the building at n° 8. it is characterized by the presence of some new balconies and is treated with plaster, like the facade on the internal courtyard of building N°6.

Project

starassociati

Construction supervision

arch. Verjano Markezic

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via Cologna_ENG

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Place Trieste

Year 2018

Client Private

The apartment is located at the first floor of a building from the 18th century. It has a corner exposition with a nice view on a big garden in the city center of Trieste. The interior disposition of connected rooms with corridor and basic sanitary services, had to be adapted to the living and working needs of a large family: the creation of three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a big living room with the possibility of using a part of it for work meetings, an open kitchen and a recording studio.

The new interior functional concept follows the example of a bunch of grapes: the connection spaces are reduced to the entry atrium and to the bedrooms’ corridor. The bathrooms, of which the one next to the entry atrium is also used as bathroom for the living zone of the apartment, are located in the darker area of the apartment, in order to leave the best exposure, to the garden and to the courtyard, to the bedrooms. On the left of the atrium are located the passages and open spaces: the living room with the open kitchen and with the area adaptable to small work meetings and the study with registration room and a second level for guests.

The innovations, besides reorganizing the inner spatial situation, have included the replacement of electrical and sanitary hydro-thermal systems, new installation of air conditioning, the replacement of the windows with restauration of the historical shutters, new doors, including some sliding doors, and all the finishing.

Project

starassociati

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BELPOGGIO WAY

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Place Trieste

Year 2019

Client Assicurazioni Generali

The Presidents’ Hall exhibition area is located along the central corridor of the main floor of the historical headquarter of the Generali Group at Trieste. A multifunctional platform emphasizes the portion of space dedicated to the installation of the Presidents’ Hall and at the same time it gives a scenic importance to the entire space.

The installation concept is based on the interaction of the two separate functional areas: one dedicated to the busts’ exhibition and one dedicated to information. The marble busts are placed in semicircle while the didactical point is located in the existing boiserie in the form of a touch screen. The digital project contains the biographies of the Generali’s Presidents who guided the Group and information related to the sculptors.

The lighting design of the Presidents’ Hall integrates the existing natural and artificial lighting system with the addition of two groups of spotlights placed on the high part of the opposite wall in order to have proper light for the busts in the Presidents Hall and for the rest of the area.

A lighting line is placed at the deck’s base to give a sense of lightness to the entire installation.

Project

starassociati

Design and Construction supervision 

arch. M. Hlavacek

Consulting and Contributions to the realization

Falegnameria Pestelli – pedana polifunzionale e punto didattico
Studio Luce – Lighting consultancy
Arch. Barbara Chiarelli – Graphics
Paolo Coloni – IT Consulting

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President’s Hall

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DWELLING ON THE THRESHOLD: ARCHITECTURE AND PSYCHIATRY

Psychiatry and architecture: combination that results in choosing the way of taking care and support for emotional suffering, combined with the creation of environments that put the concept of wellness in the first place.

This is the theme of the exhibition “The deconstruction of the threshold. The architecture of mental health” that starassociati has helped to create in partnership with the ASS1 Triestina and the Department of Mental Health.

Exhibited projects at the forefront of implementation of Mental Health Services (MSC) located throughout the region and nationally.

With the help of photos, data sheets, drawings and plans, the buildings are proof that through the mutual exchange of expertise, psychiatric and architectural, it is possible to combine the concept of taking care and therapy with that of empathy and comfort.

Projects are interfaced to the reflections of some psychiatrists about questions divided into four main areas relating to:

• Philosophy of the threshold between architecture and psychiatry
• Threshold between interior quality and care of the sick
• The urban threshold
• The threshold with the society

exhibition

  arch. R. Dambrosi

graphics

  M. Bartoli

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place Trieste

years 1986 – 2008

client AREA Science Park

Born Trieste Karst on the plateau, in an area with one of the highest concentrations of research institutes in Italy, AREA Science Park is a complex system centered on innovation, the exploitation of research and development technological companies.

Starassociati collaborates with AREA since 1984, taking an active part in the development of projects in both urban scale that architectural scale.

The interventions regarded the two campuses Padriciano and Basovizza:

• Padriciano Campus detailed plan (PRPC)
• Basovizza Campus detailed plan (PRPC)
• general variation on the Basovizza Campus detailed plan, for the Sincrotrone expansion
• Basovizza Campus urbanization
• variation n°1 in order to realize the Elettra-Fermi project
• variation n°2 in order to relocate the International school into the Basovizza campus
• Cappotto Attivo project – E1 building , Padriciano Campus

project arch. R. Dambrosi + starassociati

consultancy

studio Altieri

Politecnica ingegneria ed architettura

TiFS ingegneria

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  Cappotto attivo – E1 building

  Basovizza Campus

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place Forcella Marmarole (Belluno)

year 2015

client CAI Auronzo

Contest

CAI Auronzo, in collaboration with the Foundation Architettura Belluno Dolomiti and with the support of AKU Italy srl, Bim Piave and the Municipality of Auronzo, has launched an Ideas Competition for the acquisition of a preliminary project for the construction of an alpine bivouac.

“A mountain you really learn to know when you sleep upon it.” Julius Kugy

The group of designers, passionate climbers and ski mountaineers, has extensive knowledge of the mountain. People aware of how to use of the bivouacs at high altitude, management problems and functional of these structures, the strong interaction of the weather with the mountain environment, the dynamics related to the snowfall and all that entails the mountaineering activity at high altitude during the whole year.

The visit, during which have been observed the topography of the entire site, the access routes to the Forcella Marmarole and snow conditions, has spearheaded the design process.

project

  starassociati

  MADS&associati

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