architecture landscape urbanism
B22 architecture landscape urbanism Profile B22 is a young international architecture practice, committed to produce fresh design concepts for complex programs at any scale. More in detail, B22 provides architecture, interior design, urban and landscape design for clients both from the public and private sector: clients are supplied with multidisciplinary solutions, suitable for specific programs and projects requirements. Recent work by the practice includes the Kingdom of Bahrain pavilion at the 12th and 13th Venice Architecture Biennale and a 56 dwellings social housing building in Milan, Italy. contact info via Montebello 24 i-20121 Milan Italy office@.it www..it services provided Architectural design Urban design Landscape design Interior Design Exhibition Design founded 2011 2 / 32
B22 architecture landscape urbanism Practice principal Stefano Tropea (Padova, 1983), MSc architecture, Università Iuav di Venezia 2001-07, upc Etsa Barcelona 2003-04, Cino Zucchi Architetti 2005, Claus en Kaan architecten 2007-08, SeARCH 2008-09, Galantino associati 2010, teaching assistant at Politecnico di Milano, member of the board of directors of the Chamber of Architects of Milan 2013-ongoing, co-founder of B22.. collaborators Mattia Cella, bsc architecture, Politecnico di Milano 2010-13, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile 2014-15, Elemental 2014-15. Francesca Daprà, msc architecture, Politecnico di Milano 2009-14, fau usp São Paulo 2012-13. Chiara Gelpi, bsc architecture, usi Mendrisio 2009-15, Universidade Lusiada 2012-13, Dominique Perrault Architecture 2011-12. AWARDS 2014 Shortlisted, yap maxxi, Rome, Italy. 2012 Shortlisted (team leader Galantino associati), Maspes-Vigorelli velodrome competition, Milan, Italy. 3rd prize, Trabuccato sailing center competition, Isola dell Asinara, Italy. 2011 3rd prize, Instant House social club competition, Milan, Italy. 2010 1st prize, Cascina Merlata housing competition, Milan, Italy. Golden Lion award, best national participation, Kingdom of Bahrain pavilion at the 12th International Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. 3 / 32
Projects
housing cascina merlata - expo village client EuroMilano S.p.A. location Milan, Italy program 7,900 m2 GBA social housing 56 dwellings, temporarily to be used as apart-hotel year 2012-13 design 2013-14 construction 5 / 32
housing cascina merlata - expo village The building is located in the Cascina Merlata area in the city of Milan, close to the Rho-Pero Trade Fair pole and to the Expo 2015 site. It is part of the Villaggio Expo residential cluster, a new development to be built within the frame of a masterplan designed by Antonio Citterio & Partners and Caputo Partnership, where the representatives and the staff of the countries participating to the 2015 Universal Exposition will be temporarily hosted. Consequently, specific requirements have to be met in terms of energy efficiency, construction planning, costs control and dwellings flexibility: a specific apart-hotel layout has been designed in order to be easily remodeled at the end of the event and the apartments converted into affordable but highly equipped housing units. 6 / 32
housing cascina merlata - expo village The building is made of 56 dwellings, with a high variety of housing types raging from 45 to 100 m2, on 14 floors. The communal ground floor has been conceived to host specific activities and events during the Universal Exposition. A number of technological and design solutions have been introduced since the beginning of the design process, in order to optimize the energy efficiency in the building, including a sunscreen facade protecting the loggias on the southern side and a neighbor waste-to-energy heating cooling system. 7 / 32
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housing cascina merlata - cooperative housing client Confcooperative Federabitazione, Legacoop Abitanti Lombardia, EuroMilano S.p.A.. location Milan, Italy program 19,500 m2 housing, 290 dwellings year 2010 competition, 1st prize 10 / 32
housing cascina merlata - cooperative housing The multi-use of certain domestic spaces (such as bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms which traditionally has a single predetermined specific use) and the growing importance of spaces for leisure and wellness, are some of the most important challenges of contemporary housing. The design proposal (1st prize) focuses on such issues, rooting from studies and projects carried out in the second half of 20th century by, among the others, Livio Vacchini (Martinelli apartments, 1971), Charles Correa (Kanchanjunga apartments, 1970-83), Yves Lion (Domus Demain, 1984) and William Jan Neutelings, Alex Wall, Xavier de Geyter, Frank Roodbeen (Habitatge i Ciutat, 1990). 11 / 32
public buildings public spaces yap maxxi client Young Architects Program Fondazione Maxxi location Rome, Italy program Installation / Ephemeral year 2014 competition, shortlisted 12 / 32
public buildings public spaces yap maxxi An ephemeral installation designed for public spaces being at the same time both defined and undefined: five elements of great size lay, as ruins of a contemporary industrial landscape, on an elevation formed of debris of construction materials a mount of bricks, shingles and ceramics, molded over and over, until they are fine with strong chromatic and material-related peculiarities. On the one hand, the installation is characterized by its main elements the ground, the masks but on the other hand and contemporarily, it is an installation tool, without a pre-determined and unchangeable specific and distinctive purpose. The installation is made of items that can be touched and enjoyed; it is tangible, not imaginary: thanks to the different sizes and positions of the five masks, the latter can be used in many different ways, depending on the users, their needs and wishes and on the time of the day. The masks, influenced by the Italian comedy theater and in particular by the characters of Ettore Petrolini, are hard on the outside, but soft on the inside: users can lay down, sit or lean to see such portion of the sky emerging from the museum and the nearby trees. At night, the concavities of the masks look like large moons fallen on the earth and, at the same time, may be used as scenic design and set for summer events of the MAXXI museum. 13 / 32
public buildings public spaces yap maxxi S diametro/diameter: 400 cm inclinazione/axis: 23 massimo dislivello al bordo/heigh: 42 cm / 200 cm superficie/area: 12,5 m 2 M diametro/diameter: 600 cm inclinazione/axis: 0 massimo dislivello al bordo/heigh: 50 cm superficie/area: 25,0 m 2 L diametro/diameter: 720 cm inclinazione/axis: 36 massimo dislivello al bordo/heigh: 60 cm / 500 cm superficie/area: 40,0 m 2 14 / 32
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public buildings public spaces ASINARA client Coastal Conservation Agency Regione Sardegna location Isola dell Asinara, Italy program 2,680 m2 facilities (horeca, sports) year 2012-13 competition, 3rd prize in team with DBA Progetti S.p.A. Yellow Office 16 / 32
public buildings public spaces ASINARA The Island of Asinara (the donkeys island ) was entirely used as a high security prison till the end of the 90s. Considered, together with the Pianosa Island the Italian Alcatraz, the prison was made of several compounds, each hosting prisoners convicted for different offenses. During the Years of Lead, and after the bombs of the early 90s, some branches and in one specific case an entire compound were dedicated to host individuals convicted for serious offences. Designing a refurbishment project of one of the compounds, Trabuccato, in the frame of a competition organized by the Coastal Conservation Agency of the Sardinia region, was a particularly unique opportunity considering the importance of the Island in the recent history of Italy and the beauty of the incredibly untouched landscape, 17 / 32
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public buildings public spaces holy see pavilion expo 2015 milano location Milan, Italy program 350 m2 ephemeral pavilion for the Expo 2015 Universal Exhibition year 2014 invited competition in team with Cino Zucchi Architetti (team leader) 19 / 32
public buildings public spaces holy see pavilion expo 2015 milano 20 / 32
public buildings public spaces holy see pavilion expo 2015 milano 21 / 32
EXHIBITION DESIGN reclaim kingdom of bahrain pavilion commissioner Ministry of Culture, Kingdom of Bahrain HE Sh. Mai Bint Mohammed Al Khalifa Curators Noura Al Sayeh, Dr. Fuad Al Ansari team Lapa studio, exhibition design Stefano Tropea, local coordinator location Venice, Italy program Exhibition / Installation year 2010 AWARD Golden Lion, La Biennale di Venezia 22 / 32
EXHIBITION DESIGN reclaim kingdom of bahrain pavilion The central piece of the exhibition are three fishermen s huts which were purchased, documented and dismantled in Bahrain and reconstructed, according to their original plans at the Bahrain Pavilion in the Venice Arsenale. The three huts are part of a larger installation containing all the remaining exhibition components. 23 / 32
EXHIBITION DESIGN background kingdom of bahrain pavilion commissioner Ministry of Culture, Kingdom of Bahrain HE Sh. Mai Bint Mohammed Al Khalifa Curator Noura Al Sayeh location Venice, Italy program Exhibition / Installation year 2012 in team with Matilde Cassani, Francesco Librizzi 24 / 32
EXHIBITION DESIGN background kingdom of bahrain pavilion The exhibition installation of the Kingdom of Bahrain pavilion at the 13th Biennale di Venezia consists of five projections of background imagery from Bahrain projected in simultaneous Venetian time. 25 / 32
EXHIBITION DESIGN background kingdom of bahrain pavilion By isolating scenery which is normally supplemented by a news anchor, a news bar and sound commentary, the installation seeks to bring to the foreground what normally looms in the background. Through seemingly random scenes of Bahraini urban landscape, the installation evokes our construction of an imaginary of remote urban landscapes through their fragmented appearance in the media and in our living rooms. 26 / 32
EXHIBITION DESIGN tortona stories client Monditalia 14th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia Curators Brendan Cormier Fabrizio Gallanti location Venice, Italy program Exhibition design Research year 2014 27 / 32
EXHIBITION DESIGN tortona stories Tortona Stories is an exploration of the Italian countryside through the transect of mountaintop to river plain. The project traces discrete phenomena in the Tortona region, where entrepreneurs and businesses, motivated by economic, administrative, and cultural forces are shaping the countryside through the products they make. Tortona Stories looks at how products, and by proxy the countryside, are mediated by these broader forces, manifested in a network of seemingly unrelated objects: guides, product catalogues, government laws, news clippings, prizes, brochures, etc. Ultimately, the countryside is a product of this mediation, birthed from words, images, laws, and ideas. 28 / 32
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contact via Montebello 24 i-20121 Milan Italy office@.it www..it photos Iwan Baan Daniele Jodice Christian Richters Filippo Romano Giovanna Silva archivio B22