Campofei

The large barn object of the study is located in Campofei, an alpine village close to the municipality of Castelmagno. The village, composed of structures built with traditional techniques, is now in ruins after its abandonment. The project focuses on one of the largest buildings in the area, created with dry masonry, wooden ceilings and balconies and flagstone roofing. Originally, the structure was used as a house for multiple families, but also as barn and stable for their animals. The new function given to it by the project sees the building as an Ecomuseum, providing for the creation of the following environments: exhibition halls for the ethnographic museum, a workshop for the craftmanship of aromatic herbs, a greenhouse for their cultivation, a literary café and a shop. One of the spaces located behind the main structure and now in ruins, will become a panoramic observatory characterised by a flight of stairs made in weathering steel that winds its way through the stone walls of the building.

Credits

Place - Campofei (CU)

Professors - Daniele Regis

Rossella Maspoli

Collaborators - Regina Martinazzi

Mario Napolitano

Roberto Nicolamarino

The renders were commissioned by the building company Impresa di costruzione Peris for the purpose of marketing a series of apartments and oneor two-family semi-detached houses currently under construction in Castiglione Torinese.

Credits

Place - Castiglione Torinese (TO)

Client - Impresa costruzione Peris

The project was created for the competition of ideas “The Italians” launched by HIRO Design. Brera is a table lamp with simple, clean lines inspired by the Brera Madonna painting of Piero della Francesca, and its compositive elements follow the proportions and the constructive patterns of the piece of art. The balance between the luminous light bulb and the metal sphere recalls the suspended elements of the painting and allows for the light’s movement, through which the morphology of the lamp changes, the circumference becomes and arch and vice versa, thus creating new spatial compounds. The lamp is made of aluminium tubes welded together and coated with a matt varnish; the base is a painted solid metal disk.