ASthought #35 project:
architect:
Entrance to Sant’Eufemia / Paolo Mestriner-studioazero
ASthought #45 project:
architect:
Entrance to Sant Eufemia / Paolo Mestriner-studioazero
book editor:
Iva Pauzar
AsThought architecture from concept to built form Our main goal is to describe the design process, the architectural solutions and the detailing choices of a built work in a chronological order. The dream – that is also the ambition – is to tune at the best the structure of this on-line manual and to spread around its template in order to amplify the power of collecting and publishing in a such huge way that in a few years we could arrive at the largest open source and most browsed utility for architectural students not only in Europe.
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Milan 2013
Content
Work facts p. 5 Project description
p. 7
Commission and Surrounding
p. 11
Draft proposals
p. 17
Final proposal
p. 21
Construction drawings
p. 27
Building site
p. 39
Photo gallery
p. 43
Selected essay
p. 55
Appendix office presentation
p. 61
book editor presentation
p. 63
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Work facts
Project:
Entrance to Sant’Eufemia
Address:
Piazza Sant’Eufemia, 25100, Brescia, Italy
Area:
12198 m²
Type:
Public space
Planned:
2002.
Built:
2006.
Client:
local municipality
Architect:
studioazero / Paolo Mestriner, P.Pedrali, A. Rossini
Responsible partner:
Paolo Mestriner
Collaborator: M. J. Cruz Moreno, B. Tasca, E. Viva, M. Romano, A. Busi Consultants: A. Gasparini References: studioazero Project description:
entrance-sant’eufemia-studioazero
History of Commission:
The first competition that the architect Paolo Mestriner and his officewon, that was
a competition of curriculum vitae provided by the local municipality of Brindisi
Main architectural ideas:
Get the idea out of the context. Establish the connections and relations between the items and
materials.
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Project description
“Designing public spaces is very difficult.”- said architect Paolo Mestrineron on the project of the Entrance to Sant Eufemia in Brescia. It was the first time he participated, with his office, on a competition given by the municipality of Brescia , where the main goal was to find an office with enough experience in working on public spaces. The whole project was born out of the context, the only thing that he and his team had to be careful of was the budget. The 140 × 27 m2 of public space, which extends in east / west, is integrated between the sacral object, the archeological site and on the city road. There is no real centrality, just a axis that was created by the stone wall bench that is dividing the public and more intimate park space of the church. The concept of the space was to connect the public street side, and tne park side of the church. The gradation was made by different ground elevations, putting the park on a higher level. Also the gradation was made by the materials, putting the natural materials in the park and artificial ones on the street side. The wall benche acts like a trashold between these 2 spheres, connecting them with 3 passages, northern made of wooden Acacia flooring; diagonal, Remembrance Avenue, made of granite; and the southern ground one that acts like a hidden passage. While sitting on the stone wall bench the perspectives on both sides of the wall changes. The upper horizon on the street side gives the whole view of the surrounding, looking on the park side ground level becomes the level of the horizon, making the viewer part of the nature.The street side contains concrete wall in corten metal. The rustiness of the corten resembles the soil of the hill in the background of the area, and shows a sense of time and changes. The walls create barriers to the parking place, bus stop and the road, partially isolating the pedestrian side and the park. The walls are perforated with proportional cuts that make framed connections to the business of the street. On the street side are corten benches that are sheded during the hotter days, unlike the wall benches.In the park is a tree lane where are five stone benches integrate among them. There is also an old stone which was dug up during the realization. At the south end of the space is a water well pipe placed in the wall, the same wall changes its height along the perimeter as it goes along the perpendicular street and ends around the outdoor altar. The important issue of water within the public space is detected under the cortain walls, where is a grid disposal that symbols the dynamic of the water. entrance to Sant’Eufemia - Paolo Mestriner - studioazero
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Commission and Surrounding
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Draft proposals
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Final proposal
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final drowing 24
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Viale della Bornata side of the public space
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1 path santella
7 bus stop
2 viale della Bornata
8 corten bench
3 park of Remembrance
9 tamoil
4 museum of 1000 miles
10 parking
5 santella
11 stone wall bench
6 newsstand
12 fountain
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Construction drawings
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water detail drawings 30
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corten wall detail drawings 32
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stone wall bench detail drawings 36
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textures ,connections, relations 38
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Building site
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Photo gallery
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Selected essay
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appendix
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(San Remo, 1964) Founder and inventor of studioazero, an architectural studio in Brescia. After studying in Lisbon, Porto and with a degree at the Politecnico in Milan, he starts his professional and teaching career. He is a hired professor at the Facolta di Architettura e Societa of the Politecnico in Milan and director of International Master on Extraordinary Landscapes, Landscape Art and architecture. He has been several times selected and awarded in international competitions like Matosinhos, Brescia, Segovia, Roma, Firenze, Perugia, Varese, Somarate, Quartu Sant ’.Elena, Pantelleria. He has been published on several national and international magazines, like Housing, Pasajes, d ’Architettura, Wettwerbe Aktuell, Construire, Cadernos, FutureArquitecturas, Progettare. He has taken part in personal and collective exhibitions in Brescia, Milan, Porto, Parma, Venice, London, China and Norway.
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Iva Pauzar is born in Croatia, city of Osijek, 11.06.1987., where she finished elementary school and gymnasium of Natural and Mathematic. After her high school moved to Zagreb where she continued her education on Faculty of Architecture Zagreb. Till now she participated on several workshops and seminars and worked in couple of architectural offices. She is currently on Erasmus on Politecnico di Milano where she is finishing her last semester on Master of studies, after which she will return to her home faculty hopefuly end her academic education.
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Work facts
Project:
Entrance to Sant’Eufemia
Address:
Piazza Sant’Eufemia, 25100, Brescia, Italy
Area:
12198 m²
Type:
public space
Planned:
2002
Built:
2006
Client:
local municipality
Architect:
studioazero / Paolo Mestriner, P.Pedrali, A. Rossini
Responsible partner:
Paolo Mestriner
Collaborators:
M. J. Cruz Moreno, B. Tasca, E. Viva, M. Romano, A. Busi
Consultant: A. Gasparini References: studioazero Project description:
entrance-sant’eufemia-studioazero
History of Commission:
The first competition that the architect Paolo Mestriner and his officewon, that was
a competition of curriculum vitae provided by the local municipality of Brescia
Main architectural ideas:
Get the idea out of the context. Establish the connections and relations between the items and
materials.