NEXT urban solutions via Donna Olimpia, 3 00152 Roma e-mail: mail@studionext.info www.studionext.info
Profile
Started in 1999 by Carlotta Giannessi and Luca Milan, Next Urban Solutions has earned itself a sound reputation thanks to a wide range of different projects covering architectural, interior and exhibitions design, site supervision and landscape architecture. The practice also carries out feasibility studies and concept development for important public and private organizations. Next Urban Solutions involves expert consultants in the various fields, to ensure its constant feedback on projects and to ensure its clients the degree of excellence they would expect. Principals projects include the interior design for the new headquarter of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, the Ancient Library in the Astronomical Observatory of Rome, the Sporting Centre at la Muratella - Rome, the Observatory Park at Monte Porzio Catone - The Saba Abertis car park in Trieste and Verona. For the celebrations of the 150° anniversary of the unification of Italy, the office was in charge for the Museum of the Repubblica Romana in Rome, the Garibaldi Memorial in Caprera and the temporary exhibition “Da sud” in Naples. About architectural communication, Next Urban Solutions attends specialist conventions and was in charged for the first Digital Architect Tour for Apple Computer, Inc. and, as part of the future development of the EUR quarter, is planning a Multimedia Atlas of EUR. Most important consulting jobs include: plans for restoration of the old slaughterhouse in the Testaccio area in Rome for Soc. R.p.R., the design for Fondazione Valore Italia of a Permanent Exhibition of products with the Made in Italy brand, collaboration with the Ufficio Concorsi Architettura of Roma Capitale, and consultancy for the Takenaka group for the new Toyota office district in Rome. Next has exhibited its designs and projects at the American Academy in Rome, Arkitekturskolan KTH - Stockholm, the Venice Biennial, Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean - Rome, Eidgenossiche Technische Hochschule - Zurich, ETSAM - Escuela Superior Tecnica - Madrid, Pescara Faculty of Architecture - Università degli Studi “G. D’Annunzio”- Chieti, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - Copenhagen, “La Sapienza” - Faculty of Architecture - Rome, Faculty of Engineering - Perugia, IUAV - Architectural Institute - Venice.
Ancient library of the astronomical observatory - Rome
The dome of the observatory has never hosted the telescope that was stolen during the Second World War by retreating Germans, so the director decided to turn the dome into a library to house a collection of ancient books. The circle is the archetypal figure of Western culture and in various civilizations of the ancient world the circle has a magic value. Moreover this symbolic value does not disappear with the modern age. In this project the theme of circularity becomes the distinctive feature of a cognitive path that invites to discovery and research. A gallery ring, eccentric compared to the circular room, redefine
the absolute space of the
dome and ideally separate the spaces with different functions.
Detail section
View of the library
Plan of the first floor
Unfolded drawing of the library
Roma Museum in Abu Dhabi
The Roma Museum in Abu Dhabi in conceived as an archeological undercover. The design is based on a modular grid of typical ancient roman cities and is coming out from the sea and the sand of the Saadiyat Island Cultural District. The building has been designed to create a monolithic homogenous presence of the structure as a whole, cut by deep slits and voids randomly spread on the surface to bring light and air inside between the volumes. Like in an archeological excavation, all the building is developed under the ground level as a hollowed space and only the roof comes out from the sea and the sand. The result is a pattern of regular, floating, monolithic blocks covering the large continuous space of the exhibition galleries. A carefully modeled path of circulation leads the visitors to certain predetermined points but lets them explore freely all the exhibition space.
Internal view of the museum
Internal view of the museum
PK house - Private flat in Rome
A small apartment characterized by a long and colorful library that completely crosses the space.
Plan and section of the flat
View of the library
Detail of the curved door
Detail
Wonderwall shopping center - Salerno
A shopping center that interacts with the environment through a large wall media.
Plan and view of the complex
Archeological park in Monteporzio - Rome
A park dedicated to the archaeological finds of the Matidia Augusta Villa.
DOM Sparkling bar - Rome
A small bar dedicated to champagne. The floor underneath host a long wall inspired by the "pupitres", the typical racks for champagne bottles.
Muratella sporting center -Rome
A prototype sports complex, reflecting a highly innovative design and an original business model.
Saba parking - Trieste
Design for the restyling of a parking in Trieste
UC house - Rome
A private house built within the walls of a Roman temple.
Art exhibition - Palazzo Reale - Napoli
A new concept for an art exhibition with multimedia installations.
Museum of the Roman Republic San Pancrazio - Rome
Permanent exhibition in the ancient Museum of the Roman Republic with a new concept of the historical exposition mixing together classical exhibition and multimedia installations.
Giuseppe Garibaldi Memorial in Caprera - Sardinia The first Italian Museum completely dedicated to a hero of the National History. In the amazing Island of Caprera, the Memorial is housed in an ex military blockhouse and talk about the whole life of Garibaldi, using classical exhibition and multimedia installations: not only painting, documents and sculptures, but even touchscreen, video, audio, interactive installations that tell informations and curiosity about the hero and about the unification of Italy.
AN house - Rome
Located in the centre of Rome, a private house with exclusive designed fornitures.
Country house - Orvieto
A country house characterized by two orthogonal volumes which follows the topography of the hill.
DG house - Rome
A private house, in an ancient build located in the centre of Rome, completely redesign, using innovative and traditional fornitures, mixed together.
Casa NDN
Private villa in Puglia
Plan
B.N.L. Roma Tiburtina
Interior design of the new headquarter of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro in Roma Tiburtina
Office network
Office structure Principals:
Luca Milan Carlotta Giannessi Rosario G. Mastrobattista
Partners: Gianpietro Zirottu Davide Sgalippa
Team and consultant 1999-2014: Concha Almoguera, Saverio Antonini, Marco Astolfi, Martina Baio, Manuel Benetti, Paul Blackmore, Monica Bruni, Berta Navascués Calvo, Roberto Cantarini, Riccardo Castaldi, Luigi Centola, Valentina Cianfriglia, Alessandro Ciaralli, Carlo Ciampoli, Francesca Crastì, Marco D’Angelico, Francesco De Marco, Valentina De Marchi, Federica del Proposto, Nello De Santis, Valerio Devoti, Valentina Di Liddo, Massimiliano Di Martino, Massimo Di Nunzio, Fabio Fiamingo, Teresa Falcone, Marco Giacomelli, Romain Giardinieri, Marco Gigliotti, Alessandra Greco, Fabrizio Iafolla, Dorota Kroròlczyk, Silvia libianchi, Angela Lombardi, Antonio Maffey, Maria Vittoria Magno, Paolo Mantero, Marco Marini, Massimiliano Mazzetta, Stefano Michelato, Fabia Molteni, Maria Muzi, Davide Negro, Giulia Nicastro, Mauro Pace, Rosanna Palermo, Pietro Peyron, Paolo Petaccia, Liliana Radaelli, Madeleine Ring, Cinzia Rizzo, Dominique Rethans, Flavio Rispoli, Rolle Franco, Livio Sacchi, Mario Sacco, Fabrizio Sainati, Marta Garcia Sancho, Simone Santuzzi, Gianfranco Savini, Giovanni Scocchera, Davide Sgalippa, Marcello Spinetti, Fabio Stefanetti, Gloria Tersigni, Giulio Vatteroni, Anna Villari, Jaime Manca de Villahermosa, Saverio Villirillo, Francesca Wunderle.
Staff, competencies: Architectural design, exhibit design, multimedia design, urban design, interior design, corporate image, teaching, project management, engineering services, infrastructure planning, strategic planning.
Curricula Luca Milan
Carlotta Giannessi
(Genova 1967) Obtained his degree in Architecture in Rome
(Bergamo 1966) Obtained her degree in Architecture in Rome;
and studied at the Arkitekturskolan in Stockholm. He gained a
she is a researcher for the Faculty of Civil and Structural
doctorate in architectural design at the Pescara Faculty of
Engineering at Tor Vergata University in Rome, where she
Architecture. He works in Rome. In February 1999 he
teaches the use of CAD software.
organized the first “New Italian Blood – Traveling Exhibition”
She works as an architect in Rome and her work has won
under the patronage of the Italian Institute of Culture in
recognition in various international competitions. Her writings
Stockholm.
and designs have appeared in jour nals including
He has worked as a consultant for the Ufficio Concorsi
“Controspazio”, “Progettare”, “l’Arca”. In 1999, with Luca
Architettura for Comune di Roma and for Risorse per Roma
Milan, founded Next urban solutions.
where he helped to draw up the plans to convert Rome’s old slaughterhouse. Since 2003 he has been teaching the use of CAD software on the Graphics and Multimedia Degree course at the Valle Giulia Faculty of Architecture. He is consultant for the Fondazione Valore Italia for the Exhibition of made in Italy and italian design. From 2014 is President of Acquario Romano Srl - Ordine degli Architetti di Roma.
Rosario Giorgio Mastrobattista (Monte S. Biagio - LT 1964) Obtained his degree in Architecture in Rome. Acoustic consultant and expert in bioclimatic architecture, he has collaborated with leading professional firms in the development of public and private projects before joining Next urban solutions in 2006.
Publications •
PK House in “Living Roome” n. 16 may. 2009 pagg 34-41
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13th Fina world Championships, in “TSport” n. 263 June/July 2009
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Exhibition of Made in Italy in “Living Roome” n. 6 Aprli. 2008 pagg
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DOM Sparkling bar in “Living Roome” n. 3 Dec. 2007 pagg 10-14
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Made in Italy in “Living Roome” n. 6 April 2008 pagg 72-77
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Muratella sporting Center, in “TSport” n. 258 Nov/Dec 2007 pagg 67-70
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Archeological park in Monte Porzio Catone, in “Progettare” n. 19 June 2003 pagg 60-66
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Ephemeral competition for 2004 Athens Olimpic Games , in
Invited competition for the renovation of the Saba Parking in Trieste. (First prize) International competition for the renovation of “Piazzale delle Province – Lega Lombarda” (Honorable mention). Romarchitettura 2001. Design of the archeological park at the Astronomical observatory of Rome (First prize) Competition for a square in Velletri - Roma (Honorable mention). Competition for two parking in Roma (Honorable mention). International competition for the Sarajevo Concert Hall (Honorable mention). Competition for the renovation of Piazza Garibaldi in Sassari (Second prize). International competition for the Los Angeles Football Stadium (Honorable mention).
“Progettare” n. 12 Dec 2003, pagg 20-21 •
Da un ponte all’altro, in “Due Ponti Pedonali sul Tevere” –Catalog
Exhibitions
of the exhibition Alinea Editrice s.r.l. Firenze 2001 •
The virtual museum, in "XY, dimensioni del disegno", anno XV, nn.
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41, 42, 43, Gen-Dec 2001, pp. 60-63. •
La città del Terzo Millennio. Biennale di Architettura di Venezia 2000. Catalog of the selected project.
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Sarajevo Concert Hall. Catalog of the selected project.
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Solar power parking in L’Arca, n. 124 May 1998, pag 9
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Fotovoltaic parking in Palermo in Controspazio, n. 6 Nov-Dec 1997, pag 66-67.
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Fotorealismo e modelli architettonici 3D in “L‘informatore farmaceutico – rivista di arredamento - Fahrenbergher Italia. n.7 marzo-aprile 1992.
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In/arch- Venice Biennale. La sperimentazione del nuovo. Giovani architetti italiani - Venezia 2000. New Italian Blood Traveling Exhibition (Stockholm - Copenaghen Salerno - Venice - Cagliari - Firenze) Mostra dei progetti vincitori del concorso "Sarajevo Concert hall" - Roma 1999. 20+20+20 Young italian architects Biennale dei Giovani artisti del Mediterraneo - Roma 1999. The virtual museum, Workshop and exhibition at the University of Perugia – Facoltà di Ingegneria - 5 ottobre 2001. NIB a Copenaghen – Royal Architecture Academy Copenaghen aprile 2000 - Lecture by Luca Milan The city of the third millennium "Biennale di Architettura di Venezia” - Venezia 2000 - Lecture by Luca Milan New Italian Blood. Presentation of the Traveling Exhibition – I lunedì dell'architettura, In/Arch - Roma, marzo 1999 - Lecture by Luca Milan
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