Category: Cultural

223/1C RECOVERY OF THE MUNICIPAL AREA OF VIA ISIDORO MEL AND VIA DEGLI ALPINI SAN FIOR (TV) – 2023 – 2nd prize

Group Leader:
arch. Elisabetta Lot
Principals:
arch. Vittorio Pierini, arch. Ivo Boscariol, arch. Andrea Catto, arch. Alessio Grava
Collaborator:
arch. Giulia Manfrin

The tender involves the reconfiguration of a peri-urban area of ​​the municipality of San Fior (TV), on which multiple functions exist. The area, of about 2 hectares, has a children’s playground on the northern side, close to a road and near a car park serving the nearby school. Here is also located the access to the Alpini park, which leads, following it towards the south, to the back of the building used as a “social center”, equipped with a concrete playing field, picnic area and parking lot facing the road. The eastern side is left as a lawn, enclosed by tall trees at the Codolo stream and the Pusolin stream

The project intends to enhance the pre-existing structures, mending and updating the current elements. The social center will be renovated and expanded, with a view to creating a garrison against urban decay. The current building will become exclusively used as a bar/recreation center, operating continuously, possibly through external management under concession. To make it more functional, it is planned to include the existing kitchen area and increase the internal spaces, to accommodate a greater number of seats, making the operation commercially sustainable. A canopy (in continuity with the pre-existing one) will connect the access of the western front to the future extension, a volume characterized by large windows on the long sides to the east and west. The latter will be equipped with fully opening windows, for outdoor activities, for their extension to the garden and the paved area in front, which corresponds to a portion of the existing one. The rectangular internal space, intended for meetings and presentations, is designed for a wide flexibility of use, with a blind wall equipped for projections on the north side and, on the opposite side, to the south-east, equipped with an independent kitchen with a dedicated entrance and, to the south-west, a service area.

On the back, a small and independent building is planned for the meetings of the Alpini San Fior group, equipped with toilets and a kitchen/equipped wall, positioned near the commemorative monument at the entrance to the Park to also act as a garrison of the area, since it is equipped with large windows towards the entrance, which in the evening will define a sort of luminous lantern towards the park. Formally, each of the 3 buildings of the complex will be characterized on the outside by the presence of opalescent panels to emphasize the elements of greater height.

The cycle and pedestrian path completes the connection between via Isidoro Mel and via degli Alpini and the school buildings, and at the same time defines a new urban front of the park system, with seats, trees and earthworks, obtained by moving the children’s play equipment to a safer internal position, at the same time close to the pre-existing picnic areas, the bar and connected to the school area and the natural park

223/2C DESIGN COMPETITION FOR THE REDEVELOPMENT OF THE REST HOME AND THE EX BARRACKS COMPLEX RIVA DI ASIAGO – 2023 – 3rd prize

Group leader:
architect Elisabetta Lot
Principals:
architect Vittorio Pierini, architect Ivo Boscariol, architect Alessio Grava
Collaborator:
architect Giulia Manfrin

The subject of the competition is the reorganization of the external and internal spaces of the buildings that insist on the area of ​​the former Riva barracks, currently characterized by the parade ground used as a parking lot and the presence of a Rest Home with an adjoining multi-clinic space. The founding idea of ​​the external area project is to provide citizens and guests of the rest home with a usable external space. The new green areas will have paths characterized by sinuous shapes developed within areas with irregular geometries, capable of establishing dynamic and stimulating space-sensory relationships for users.

The principles that have been adhered to are those of universal design which, applied to elderly users, include a series of measures aimed at increasing autonomy (through circular paths with walking assistance tools, raised vegetable gardens to be looked after, flower beds), memory stimulation (through solutions aimed at stimulating the visual, olfactory and tactile senses thanks to selected arboreal and floral vegetation), intergenerational exchange (through the complete use of the many functions that insist in the area) and the possibility of having aggregation spaces (seats in the shade or sheltered from the elements, outdoor meeting places).

The design of the garden edges respects the need to control the elderly without however creating physical fences that would impact the general perception of the space (eliminating the sense of enclosure, of closure).

The parking lot will be remodeled and regulated, favoring vehicular parking on the southern side of the lot, while maintaining the previous paving and rainwater recovery, defining dedicated pedestrian paths to safely access the various structures present in the complex.

As regards the architecture, in the former stables, on the southern side, near the entrance to the lot, the new multipurpose meeting room sized for 50 people interrupts the alignment of the fronts in correspondence with the only non-original wall (in concrete), to create a formally recognizable volume; a glass window emphasizes its importance making it visible from the outside, overlooking the former parade ground which can be used as a public space if necessary. The warehouse has been positioned on the eastern side; on the opposite side the multipurpose room, the toilets, the exhibition spaces and finally additional warehouses.

Where the functions are public, the pedestrian area is enlarged, creating an area for cultural and social activities dedicated to the community. The expansion of the entrance to the retirement home is also consistent and is redesigned with the same materials. The volume that expands the second and third levels takes up the pitched roof of the adjacent buildings; on the façade, the glass portion visually connects the square with the back, while the almost completely blind portion will house more “private” functions, such as the rehabilitation gym.

218/C DESIGN COMPETITION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW “LOZER” FIRST GRADE MIDDLE SCHOOL IN THE TORRE DISTRICT (PORDENONE) – 2018 – 1st prize

Group leader:
Arch. Vittorio Pierini
Principals:
Arch. Elisabetta Lot, Arch. Ivo Boscariol, Arch. Jessica Macuz, Arch. Andrea Catto

The primary objective of the project was to build it in parts: in a first phase, the construction of the new school and, only at the end of this first phase, the demolition of the existing one and the new construction of the premises with “complementary” uses, gym and auditorium. A second objective concerned the multifunctionality of the school, therefore imagining a building that would not only host school activities, but that would above all be at the service of the community of the Torre neighborhood.

The idea of ​​opening the school to the community, thinking of it as a public building attentive to relations with the urban fabric and supporting the civic activities of the community was fundamental to defining the priorities of the architectural composition.

To achieve this second objective, we thought that a new quality public space was necessary and that all the functions with autonomous use and management should “overlook” this: the school, the gym, and the auditorium.

The school complex is therefore conceived as a set of independent but contiguous modules with all the “public” functions located on the ground floor, in close correlation with the external space and with the urban flows, with pedestrian crossings and a system of vehicular access.

The three volumes that make up the project have different heights; the school is built on three floors to accommodate all the required functions while trying to contain the size in plan, it has a height of about 12 m, the gym will have a height of about 8 meters internally and the auditorium about 7/8 meters, net of the crowning walls that determine its shape. If the base collects all the public functions as mentioned, on this figuratively rest the crownings of the gym and the auditorium and the two-story volume of the school where all the classrooms overlook the longer sides to the north and south but where even the heads of the building are “opened” to illuminate the corridors creating an intense relationship with the outside that links the square with the park.

174 RENOVATION OF A PORTION OF THE SPILIMBERGO CASTLE

luogo: Spilimbergo (PN)
cliente: Privato
incarico: diretto
progettisti: arch. Vittorio Pierini, arch. Elisabetta Lot, arch. Ivo Boscariol
prestazioni svolte: progetto, direzione lavori, arredo d’interni
data del progetto: 2017
realizzazione: 2018-2019
note: mq 730
fotografie: Massimo Poldelmengo, plbstudio

L’immobile in oggetto è una parte del complesso del Castello di Spilimbergo, le cui prime tracce risalgono al secolo XI.

La porzione denominata Palazzo Ciriani (ora Furlan), così come la conosciamo oggi, conserva poco dell’impianto originario. Le modifiche apportate nel 1911-1912, in occasione del restauro realizzato su progetto dell’architetto Giuseppe Torres, hanno trasformato radicalmente l’edificio.

Attualmente consta di un nucleo principale, confinante a nord-ovest con palazzo Tadea, che comprende i saloni e le stanze principali dell’abitazione, caratterizzate dall’ingresso principale dotato di una bussola di legno e dalla scala lignea progettata dallo stesso Torres. Un nucleo secondario, a confine con palazzo Troilo (già adibito a carcere e ora sede dell’Archivio comunale) è collocato a sud-est, che, oltre ad una ulteriore scala di accesso ai vari piani, contiene su un unico livello gli ambienti domestici del Castello: il “fogher”, con l’antistante servizio, un “tinello” con vista sul Tagliamento, la cucina e una cantina (anch’essi prospicienti verso il fiume). A queste due unità si aggiunge lo studio dello scultore Ado Furlan costituito da un ampio stanzone adibito un tempo a ricovero delle carrozze e collegato attraverso una porta oggi murata a una cantina rientrante attualmente nella proprietà Querin.

Lo schema planimetrico del piano terra corrisponde solo parzialmente a quello del primo piano. Qui infatti il salone è ridotto in ampiezza da un muro funzionale alla creazione di un corridoio dove sbocca la scala lignea interna e lungo il quale si distribuiscono due ambienti: il salone passante con l’affresco di Giovanni da Udine, confinante a nord-ovest con la proprietà Querin e dotato un tempo di due coppie di porte per lato, e la stanza-studio di Italo Furlan con affaccio verso il Tagliamento. Quest’ultima è divisa mediante un tramezzo da un secondo ambiente con pavimento alla veneziana, utilizzato un tempo come bagno, trasformato da Italo Furlan nella propria camera da letto.

Al secondo piano, cui si accede esclusivamente attraverso la scala principale in cemento con finitura in graniglia, si ripete lo schema distributivo del livello sottostante, con corridoio centrale e tre camere ai lati, mentre i servizi sono accessibili dal corridoio parallelo alla facciata.

Una scala, tra le due camere confinanti a nord-ovest con la proprietà Querin conduce al sottotetto, utilizzato attualmente come deposito.

Gli interventi realizzati, volti all’esaltazione delle finiture adottate in precedenza e all’adeguamento funzionale dell’edificio, non hanno compromesso la forma originaria né hanno cambiato le caratteristiche costruttive. Sono riassumibili nelle seguenti lavorazioni:

  • sostituzione della pavimentazione in legno a spina di pesce di alcune stanze del piano terra con una di identica fattura.
  • levigatura e pulizia del pavimento in seminato alla veneziana di alcune stanze del piano terra e della scalinata di accesso alla zona notte del primo e secondo piano.
  • rifacimento della pavimentazione esterna del cortile retrostante, attualmente in calcestruzzo in cattivo stato di conservazione, utilizzando lo stesso materiale ma con inserti in pietra a richiamare la piazza esterna.
  • Sostituzione nel giardino del bersò attuale con uno nuovo di foggia adeguata al contesto.
  • creazione al piano terra di 2 bagni (entrambi con lavabo e wc) il tutto realizzato tra 2 pareti preesistenti, attraverso la creazione di un setto divisore, senza modificare la planimetria del palazzo e la pavimentazione preesistente. La porta in ferro, ad un’anta con sopraluce, a richiamare le soluzioni adottate nelle stanze limitrofe.
  • restauro di tutti gli infissi in legno e della scalinata rivestita in legno al piano terra.
  • inserimento di una porta scorrevole a 2 ante in vetro all’interno della bussola di ingresso principale, senza modificare il serramento e le parti in legno.
  • inserimento di una porta scorrevole a 2 ante in vetro all’interno della studio Ado Furlan, ripristinando contestualmente la forometria originale della porta, senza modificare il serramento e le parti in legno della sala principale.
  • adeguamento dell’impianto idraulico, con integrazione dei vecchi termosifoni con nuovi elementi di stesso aspetto e stessa foggia di quelli presenti.
  • adeguamento dell’impianto elettrico, con materiali a norma ed integrazione con nuovi corpi illuminanti volti a soddisfare eventuali esigenze espositive.

121 MIOTTO CINEMA AND THEATER RENOVATION AND MODERNISATION

place: Spilimbergo (PN)
contracting authority: Comune di Spilimbergo
assignment: competition
architects: arch. Vittorio Pierini
collaborators: arch. Elisabetta Lot, arch. Ivo Boscariol
project cost: €. 1.150.000,00
services supplied: project, executive project, construction management, interior design
project: 2014/2015
construction: 2016/2017
photography: Massimo Poldelmengo, plbstudio

The project involves the renovation of the Cinema Theater Miotto in Spilimbergo (PN). Opened in 1937, it is located in the north of the historical city center. The exterior has been kept almost unaltered, except for the demolition and reconstruction of a new warehouse of enlarged dimensions. The interior has been consolidated, structurally improved and adapted to the current regulations of the building through the reconstruction of the stage, the stalls and the gallery as well as the redevelopment of the entrance, the foyer and the bathrooms. In the theater hall conceptually 2 elements interpenetrate: one in wood, that constitute flooring and acoustic elements; one in black plasterboard, that contains air conditioning and lighting systems. Moreover, the space under the stage has been trasformed into a store and rehearsal room, and the adjacent basement, previously used as a pizzeria, in dressing rooms and bathrooms.

066 ARMANDO PIZZINATO MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART CIVIC GALLERY

place: Pordenone
contracting authority: Comune di Pordenone
assignment: direct
architects: arch. Ado Furlan, arch. Vittorio Pierini , arch. Ugo Perut (coordinator)
collaborators: arch. Walter Pescarollo-Vivan, arch. Gianluca Zanette
project cost: €. 4.104.000,00
services supplied: project, executive project
project: 2005-2006
construction: 2007-2011 – concluso
photography: Foto Ciol

The requirement was for a building including exhibition areas, lecture hall and related facilities located between the historical villa and the public street at the rear. The design proposes a building on two levels where the exhibition and distribution routes are developed along axes that connect outdoor and indoor spaces. This solution addresses the complex program so that the architecture of the new building is porous from the outside to the inside and vice versa: the colours and reflections of nature penetrate the new spaces and the presence of the historical monument is perceived from original points of views. The new Gallery is conceived as the synthesis of two volumes: the first one, below grade, emerges only to the level of the basement of the neighbouring historical villa; the second one, one floor high, rests on the first volume and defines the new street elevation. The terrace/plaza resulting from the gap between the volumes fronts on the nearby pond and represents an element connecting the historical villa and the new Gallery of Modern Art: a real outward extension of the exhibition space and a location for large-scale sculptures as well as an extraordinary place offered to the different cultural activities of the city.