Architectural portfolio | Master & other works

Antonio Piga Architectural Portfolio

In architecture as in nature:

“Nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything changes.�

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier

Curriculum vitae

Master’s student in Architecture and Urban design

Personal infos Birth Nationality City Phone

Contacts

14-04-1994 Italian Cagliari +39 3488148321

E-mail Website Issuu Behance

aantonio.piga@gmail.com antoniopiga.myportfolio.com/ issuu.com/home/publisher www.behance.net/antoniopiga

I come from a timeless island with a strong identity.

I look forward to feeding my mind in the unstoppable evolution.

Experiences

About me

Workshop MIAW 2020 Metro M4 | La nuova dorsale

As a person interested in art as a way of expression, I have a constant interest in the research of beauty.

I see myself as a tireless reader, keen on researching and appreaciating even the little things.

My preferred way of travelling is to “lose” myself on the way and to keep going discovering hidden spots.

By watching films, especially italian neorealism, I developed sensibility about scenography and movement with a particular attention to the represented social conditions.

I practice several sports, such as football or tennis, and outdoor activities - cycling and trekking.

My passion for cocktails and liquors led me to London, where working as a bartender taught the importance of a positive attitude in teamwork.

Milano | January 2020

Innovative learning space 2018 A city for everyone Alghero PAESAGGI CULTURALI

Third summer school | Cagliari 2014

Construction Emergency Unit tent Milano | May 2019

FAB LAB | Paesaggi parametrici Cagliari | September 2018

Competition Latvia | Great Kemeri bog visitor center www.beebreeders.com | December 2018

New Zealand | Wellington Oriental bay pavillion www.adedu.co.nz | November 2018

Latvia | Pape nature park gateway www.beebreeders.com | May 2018

Studies

Language

Master PoliMi, University of Milano

Mother tongue 2nd language 3rd language Learning

Architecture and urban design Sept. 2018/ On going

Italian English - IELTS certificate: 6.5 Portuguese - B1 Spanish, French

Bachelor Unica, University of Cagliari

Science of architecture - 110/110 Lode Sept. 2013/ Feb 2017

Erasmus plus experience ESAP, Escola Superior Artistica Porto Architecture Sept. 2015/ July 2016

Physical skills Drawing Painting Modelling Assembling

Sketches, Free hand, Tecnical Crayons, watercolors Use of tools with different materials on every scale Join complex structure of modular components

Software skills Office Power point Word Excel

Analysis Qgis Grasshopper + Elk

Modelling Autocad Rhinoceros Gr. + Meerkat GIS Revit

Adobe InDesign Illustrator Photoshop After Effect

Rendering Cinema 4D Corona

This portfolio is a selection of projects elaborated either in a team or individually during 6 years of university studies, competitions and internship, aiming to develop an understanding of architectural complexities based on the approach of site analysis and the importance of the characteristics of the place.

The Bachelor’s studies in the technical university of Cagliari gave me the basis for a complete development of a project, from its design to construction solutions.

The years spent working and traveling, mainly in Portugal and United Kingdom, led me to new experiences in urban lifestyle, people’s behaviours, as well as architectural practices over different countries, cultures and programs.

The Master’s studies in Architecture and Urban design at Politecnico di Milano lead me to understanding the need of a strong strategy as a starting point of the development and the realization of a project, in order to understand its feasibility through time.

These projects are products of collaboration and teamwork to face the importance of the decision for the common good that lead my approach through different tasks, always looking for innovative solutions based on the problems and opportunities.

For more works, you may check my online portfolio:

antoniopiga.myportfolio.com

Contents Healingscapes

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Master | Final studio Prof. S. Capolongo, E. Faroldi, S. Sbattella Coll | Michael Bekele Deribe, AnĂŹ Sevinyan

Living Livigno

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Master | Thematic studio Prof. I. Inti, R. Mazzoni, I. Toselli Coll: Michael Bekele Deribe

Come in Solari

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MIAW 2020 | Milan International Architectural Worrkshop Visiting Prof | Cany Ash Coll | 10 members teamwork

AnticafĂŠ neighbourhood

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Master | Architectural design studio Prof. J. M. Garcia Fuente, C. Pallini Coll: Luca Zanotti, Martina Bertuzzi

School of domes

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Master | Construction & Sustainability studio Prof. Lorenzo Belli, Alessandra Zanelli Coll: Ilaria Pugliese, Camilla Vertua, Angelica Venzor

Redraw Historical Typologies

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Collaboration Arch. Pier Francesco Cherchi Coll: Ivano Zucca, Giovanni Bova

From the soil to the hill

p.36

Competition Beebreeders.com Coll. Federico Serventi

Water pavillion

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Competition competitions.archi Coll. Ivano Zucca, Viola Orgiano

Gateway area Competition Beebreeders.com Coll. Federico Serventi, Edgardo Maxia

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Healingscapes Regenerate the city, community and environment The urban regeneration project of Ex Macello, the former slaughterhouse in Milan, is a theme of the international competition “Reinventing Cities”, which aims to transform the area into a mixed-use district with social housing, student residences and a functional mix to be proposed by the contestants.

In the Final Studio 2020, this challenge is addressed with a united approach of urban health and cultural development.

Our project represents the ensemble of the cityscapes and landscapes that we want to achieve for Ex Macello, with a character of a healing space in multiple senses: for its users - physically, mentally and spiritually; and for Milan - curing the “wound” of abandonment and decay, and integrating the area within the existing living organism of the city to make them work smoothly together.

The key is to consider sustainability not only in terms of energy and environmental aspects but in its broader sense, too: social cohesion along with the high-quality environmental design are among the key features through which urban hWealth could be achieved.

For the final videos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTl32TcVgMc www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbdKEp0bKMU

Vision

Urban approach | 9 requirements vs. proposal

COMPETITION REQUIREMENT

PROJECT PROPOSAL

construction footprint 32% - 52550 m2

constructed area 121344 m2

TOTAL 165300 m2

construction footprint 28% - 44205 m2

constructed area 117737 m2

functional mix 50% - 60672 m2

TOTAL 165300 m2

functional mix 44% - 52093 m2

residential (social housing) 50% - 60672 m2

open spaces 68% - 112450 m2

residential (social housing) 56% - 65644 m2

open spaces 73% - 121095 m2

EXISTING SITUATION construction footprint 46% - 76317 m2

TOTAL 165300 m2 open spaces 54% - 88983 m2

greenery

15%

roads

9%

pavement/asphalt 30%

greenery

39%

pavement with green sports fields & tracks water roads

5% 9% 2% 15%

other pavement

30%

Sustainable efficiency FS2020 | Healingscapes | Group 4

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Social and architectural solutions

Permeable pavement

bushes’ selection

botanical study and design solutions

artemisia annua

berberis vulgaris

deutzia

echinops bannaticus festuca glauca forsythia www.bam.milano.it/the-park/collezione-botanica

aromatic perennial

vibrant remedial

decorative resistent

perennial

wisteria

molinia caerulea

panicum virgatum

aromatic typical aesculus hippocastanum

perennial

perennial

alder

platanus occidentalis

perennial

vibrant typical remedial

perovskia atriplicifolia aromatic remedial

santolina chamaecyparissus perennial

trachelospermum jasminoides aromatic typical

trees’ selection trachelospermum jasminoides aromatic typical carpinus betulus

Plants selection

typical for Milan

pinus nigra

cercis siliquastrum

liquidambar styraciflua vibrant

Sustainable approach | 11

Water system

Reuse cycle

Urban area axo

12 | Final studio

via Lombroso

Step 1 | Connections

Step 4 | Site approach Step 4 | Site approach Conceptual design evolution

South South

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environment natural

healthy,

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define a safe,

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define an attractive,

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cultural,

Step 2 | Axes

Step 3 | Functions

Step 2 | Axes

Step 3 | Functions

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via Lombroso void after demolition

Step 1 | Connections

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street

void after demolition

full

preserve the green

accessibility accessibility

the green axis of thepreserve historical buildings

streetbridge

bridge

axis of the historical buildings

Step 5 | Main areas

Step 6 | Landscape design

Step 5 | Main areas

Step 6 | Landscape design

Axo view

Ground floor axo

Project area | 13

Health

Sport

Leisure

Activities

Living Livigno Through and beyond the Winter Olympics Our proposal for the Olympic village site of Livigno aims to prepare the city and the citizens to this big event before, during and after.

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Architecture: the Olympic village made us consider a program and some functions related to the residents’ needs and the whole organization of the big events, so we are designing new buildings that could serve before the need of the community, than the Olympic games, and later have an impact on the future development of Livigno and its tourism.

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Landscape: following and implementing the established points by the IOC and the Olympics through a sustainable plan, we want to enhance the qualities of water and mountains by allowing their use all year long, considering the dry, liquid and solid conditions of the water and empowering the areas in close proximity to the water to let the users be more in contact with nature.

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Planning: in order to organize private and public associations, activities and workers in the area linking existing and new functions, defining a supportive machine to the Olympic village and to the economic growth of Livigno by using sport, culture and recreation.

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For more info about the class/studio research: https://milanocortina2027lab.wordpress.com/

Legend From 3000 to 3800 slm From 3000 to 3800 slm From 3000 to 3800 slm From 1500 to 2000 slm From 3000 to 3800 slm From 800 to 1500 slm From 3000 to 3800 slm Lakes Lakes Mountain huts Mountain Hydroelectric powerhuts plants Hydroelectric power plants Levissima company Water sources Levissima factory Dams Water sources Project areas Dams Project path Project path Existing paths Existing paths Rivers Rivers Borders Watershed boundary Borders Watershed boundary From 3000 to 3800 slm

From 2500 to 3000 slm From 2000 to 2500 slm

Alta Valtellina map analysis

Planning development

Water & topography

Agriculture & wood

| 15

City & history

Site Analysis

Site analysis & potentials Site area 480.000 m2 Built area 164.000 m2

Streets 29.800 m2

O. Village 50.000 m2

Project development

O.V. mobility

Improve

O.V. Service zone

Collaborate

Residential area 53.500 m2 Services 80.700 m2 Natural area 316.000 m2

New functions

Federia River 18.300 m2

Activate

Public greenery 63.000 m2

Enhance public space

Private agriculture 234.700 m2

O.V. Residence core

Control and maintein

New park

Landscape axon view

Project actions Planning Sport hub activities Thematic seasonal events Touristic network Involve association Involve community Involve private owners Cultural activities Young work training Urban Street enlargement Street level raising Pedestrian path definition Permeable parking place Landscape Lakeside enlargement Natural park River control Hydroponic plant use Flower planting Land modification Architecture Watersport hub Association centre Info point Cultural centre 2 Bar/canteen TIcket point Control area

Flooding risk 4m al

Normal condition

8m al

Maximum condition Historical river Land slide risk Soil control

Risks and management plan

16 | Thematic studio

Dismantling the site of the gravel factory and the stadium hill

Section of the park

Sport field

Gentle hill

Axonometric masterplan view

Building a new park, moving the land, defining gentle slopes and new river sides

Gravel slope Flat land

Bar/Canteen

WC System of green terraces

Gravel slope

Water plants

River

Landscape development | 17

March to may August to November Activities Taste local products Football games Leisure & relax into nature Running Cycling Healthcare activities

November to March Activities Winter sports Winter activities Nordic sky Taste local products Ice skating Ice hockey

May to August Activities Taste local food Discover the river Football games Leisure and relax Running Cycling Planting Yoga sessions

Seasonal axonometries

18 | Thematic studio

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Distribution

Functional diagram

Architectural plan

Lake winter view

Eclosed space Glazed space Interior space To the landscape To the surrounding

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Architectural development | 19

Sections 1 | On existing builted bases Needs a wooden framing support

2 | On the agricultural land Short poles to detach from the ground

Larch wood roof

Larch wood roof

Wooden frame structure

Wooden frame structure

Envelop | Wooden walls

Envelop | Wooden walls

Glass openings

Glass openings

Hardwood floring

Hardwood floring

Floor joists Wooden beam

Floor joists

Concrete slab

Concrete slab

Poured concrete foundation wall

3 | On the rocky lake side Long piers for stability and water

Wooden poles Concrete foundation blocks

Wooden piers

Construction system

Views: Michael Bekele Deribe

Lake summer view

Come in Solari The final products realized is an architectural project video as the result of the MIAW 2020 intensive workshop at Politecnico di Milano

Participants: Architect/visiting professor: ASH CANY, studio Ash Sakula architects Ashsak.com Tutor: PORRO FRANCESCA Students: BELLISARIO MATTIA, BIN SYED AHMAD SYED

YUNUS ALMAHDALY, DAI WANG, EL SAHLI LINDA, ERGUR LARA, FRIEDMAN MIRA MATIAS, FU YUXIN, GULTEKIN FURKAN, KIBERA MARIA, MAGNINI CHIARA, MIZERIA JAKUB, MONTERO CORINA, PIGA ANTONIO, PUGLIESE ILARIA, QUIROS VAN OUTRIVE ANA SOFIA, SHAHVERDIPOUR BAFANDEH AREIAN, SPASOVA MIRA, TOSINI BEATRICE, TRIBE SHANNON LEIGH, VERTUA CAMILLA, YANG JUNYI, YI LIU, ZAMBELLI ARIANNA

Working on Parco Solari Metro 4 station visioning and projecting new potential spaces. The areas become key nodes to rethink infrastructure as a tool to activate and regenerate urban and territorial processes.

For the video and more infos visit the webpage:

https://readymag.com/u35301582/vetrasolari/

Daytime project view

Workshop | 21

Night time project view

AnticafĂŠ neighbourhood Located in the fascist city of Latina, where the strong monumental facades, the large widthness of the streets and the huge voids of the square contribute to generate an atmosphere of loneliness and unidentity.

The project is adapted to the rules of city center. The building close the neighboorhood; it defines a rithm and a grid; it stays permeable from the streets creating an internal space like a couthyard for the people; it is flexible and customizable by the inhabitants.

The new platforms grow in height with the city and the nature. The whole defines a multifunctional building made by a theatre, a library, an open cafĂŠ, a garden, coworking areas and a lot of free spaces that the community must appropriate to create a the spirit of the place from the participation.

Design concept

Model 1:100

Site approach | 23

Volumetric evolution

View: Luca Zanotti

Street view

24 | Architectural design studio

Right perspective section

Left perspective section

Atmosphere | 25

Open library

The garden

Area relax

Exploded view

Views: Luca Zanotti

Theatre

26 | Architectural design studio

Technical plan

3rd storey plan

Left front view

Left section

Details | 27

Steel-concrete connection

Slab and garden

Curtain wall

Steel-concrete connection

Slab and garden

Curtain wall

Perspective section

28 |

School of domes The project is located in In-Gall, a city of the desertic area of Niger, that was famous for the route of Tuareg.

The aim is to create an adaptable space for the common good that can be moved like the nomads and located where it can be usefull. It is a school for everibody, built all togheter for the inhabitants.

It is defined by 3 different size domes where che bags filled by soil are the mass, while the dome roof are flexible made by a structure in local wood and a cover made by cuscions of palm fiber and camel wool.

The construction is defined listening the place, the history of the nomads, the local technics and the enthusiasm of the people who could learn how to substain themselves working all togheter learning how to use the nature even in so hard conditions.

Model Dome 1:20

Joint construction

Context focus | 29

Community Center Innovative areas Water towers

Innovative learning

Local materials

Tecnical plan

Town Vegetation (Acacia)

0,5 km

Agricultural fields River

Localization

30 | Construction & Sustainability studio

Traditional knowledge

Flexibility and reversibility

Pavilion

Warka tower

Roof configurations

Longitudinal section

PRINCIPLES 3.4 “Eco-Efficacy” Construction techniques | 31

Technological materials

Biological materials

“Eco - effi

PROJECT OF ENERGY

Soil

Polypropilene bags

Eco efficacy

x 11 Polypropilene bags filled with soil to make walls

Soil comes back as soil

Polypropilene comes back as polypropilene

Bio (Water climatic strategy 4.3 RES + Health)

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Used water from facilities is filtered and used as irrigation for crops.

Rain water as well as the water from the nearby river will be captured, filtered and reused. The captured water will serve to be used for the necessities of the building as well as the users.

After their use, bags can be empty

Used water from facilities will be filtered and used as irrigation for crops.

Soil reuse

Water reuse Captured water is filtered again and turned into consumable water which will later develop into human waste to be filtered and used as irrigation for crops.

Captured water is filtered again and turned into consumable water.

Water is develop into human waste to be filtered and used as irrigation for crops. .

Tecnical section

32 | Construction & Sustainability studio

Construction kit

Shovel

Ladder Shovel

Ladder Shovel

Bucket Ladder

Bucket Ladder

Rope

Through the simplicity the building can be assembled in four phases.

Here we can see the third one.

The process is simple because it listen the community, using the local materials and their ancient technics.

In doing so the project is sustainable, cheap and everybody can built it following the instructions.

The people with the participation generate a learning approach, everybody is contributing to the common good and creating a sense of identity and unity.

1 PLACING THE STRUCTURE

Bucket

2 FILLING THE VOID

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The dig is re-filled to ensure that bags would load their weight down

Rope Bucket

Rope

Rope 3 FILLING THE BAGS FROM THE BOTTOM...

4 ... TO THE TOP

5 POSSIBILTY OF UNFILLING THE BAGS

BY REVERSING THE PROCESS

The bag is divided into three parts that opens with zippers for easily placement of earth

Draw: Ilaria Pugliese

CONSTRUCTION K CONSTRUCTIO

- PLACEMENT OF THE STR - FILLING THE BAGS - REVERSIBILITY OF THE P

Details | 33

Axonometric section

34 |

Redraw historical typologies The building was realized in1856 by the architect Gaetano Cima, Cagliari’s technical office director.

The reason that generate this drawing is to support the piece of Professor Francesco Cherchi published in “Domus, April 2015”.

The aim is to describe the authority of the work of Cima.

This work is an axonometric rappresentation of the original project because today is polluted by different and disconnected additions.

It emphazises the complexity of the plant, as it is a new functional organization for an hospital, based on the prison’ scheme.

Original plant, front and section view

Domus publication | 35

From the soil to the hill The area is the entrance of Kemeri natural park, far from urban development.

The project is shaped from the bogs and the soil, growing in its natural shape between the trees, imposing its massive silhouette in a completely flat plain.

The idea is to redefine the landscape: the cave under the hill encourage the visitors to explore in a dark foggy atmosphere. Entering through two different thresholds, a person can perceive the intimacy of a narrow space, being surprised by the distributive open space that links all the functional areas.

Moving forward into the visit, following the slope, lightened from above, the user will be reconnected to the landscape, having a complete view of the surroundings till he reaches the rooftop bar.

The hill is a charming landmark that link architecture and nature.

View: Federico Serventi

The hill from the street

Site development | 37

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Planimetry

Perspection section A-A

38 | Competition - Bee Breeders

Tecnological solutions

Plant-E

Phitodepuration

Constructive system Exploded view

Water accumulation

Waste reuse

New fuctions | 39

Bar

Bar

Museum

Cave

Playground

Playground

Camping site

Views: Federico Serventi

Camping site

Water pavillion The project is located in the Oriental bay of Wellington, a place where locals and tourists go to enjoy long walks along the sea and under the hill.

The design is referred to the mite of discovering of Aotearoa: the Hook and the Soil as symbol of origin and protection.

The pavillion is a charming landmark that grows in regard of the Bay connecting beach and boulevard.

The hook is defined from the first pavilion, its shape generate different spaces where a person could contemplate the nature and the city.

The open spaces simply defined by walls and slopes aloud the people to play with the shapes and the materials; to feel the waves under they feets; to relax in an open courtyard, protected from the wind and the noise of the city.

View: Viola Orgiano

Aerial view

Site development | 41

B

A

B

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Planimetry

Promenade view

Civic hall section A-A

Amphitheatre section B-B

The new context

42 | Competition.archi

The pavement in peach colored gum invites to lay down and the curved wall could amplify the sounds. The paths create the movement through the vertical elements. The wooden tiles aloud the waves to sound inside the project.

Descending and ascendant ways in grey concrete create continuity between the bay and the sea. The wall in light blue aluminium panels is perfectly levigated, it changes in transparency with the of holes becoming an attraction that shapes the light into the square.

The interior space looks like a white monolites made by irregular exagonal ceramics. It invites people to enter from the dark atrium, that compress the space; than it slowly opens to the whole white room lightened by zenital natural light.

It aloud conference, but it could be organized as an exposition hall.

Plan path

Soil

Pathways

Civic hall

Descendant path

Contruction criterias | 43

A

A

Beach level plan

Sea front view

Longitudinal section A-A

The system is all made by steel that as an high resistance against the weather conditions and the solty water.

Different grids of orizzontal steel beams are posed over the old basement.

The connection with the pillars is defined by dampers to aloud orizzontal movement and to preserve stability in case of an heart quake.

Vertical elements are combined by oblique braces to define a structural organism that prevent any directional external forces.

The different superficial panels are connected to the pillars to define omogeneus surfaces where the characteristics of each material can be fully expressed.

Details

Gateway park The main condition of the park is nature, embodied in the project through the tree configuration. The tree structure is composed by trunk, branches and leaves as: paths, clusters and functions, The purpose is to bring people in an intimate condition, through the subdivision of different areas always in contact with nature.

It is in the domestic dimension where is possibile to reach the maximum intimacy, which is embodied in the project by the archetypical house shape. This form is applied to every building with the aim of creating a village for the visitors of the park.

The in-between spaces inside every cluster is a patio generated to serve all the cluster itself.

The gap between the different clusters creates a community space.

View: Edgardo Maxia

The Root threshold

The Tree Village

Gateway

Site development | 45

West front view

Gate perspective section

B A

B A

Planimetry

46 | Competition - Bee Breeders

Wooden skin

The clusters

Glass openings

Internal finitures The path

Wooden frame structure

The ground

Lighting

Geothermal heating

Foundation pillars

Water

Composition criterias | 47

Waiting area

Views: Federico Serventi

The tower

Aerial view

48 | Competition - Bee Breeders

Waiting area a Waiting room

37,5mq

b Info point

12,5mq

c Toilette

22mq

d Corridor

9,5mq

e Courtyard

32mq

f Playground

38mq

g Office

39mq

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c

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West longitudinal section B-B

Waiting area perspective section

Functional areas | 49

Ranger area a Storage

15mq

b Corridor

13,5mq

c Bedroom

18,5mq

d Bathroom

7,2mq

e Living room f Kitchen g Courtyard

c

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17,5mq 12mq

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21,8mq

East longitudinal section A-A

Ranger area perspective section

In a world that is constantly changing, the unknown is the territory to explore and enhance.