ASthought #24 project:
architect:
Cultural Centre / Dap Studio & Paola Giaconia
ASthought #24 project:
architect:
Cultural Centre / Dap Studio & Paola Giaconia
book editor:
Niki Georgiou
AsThought
Content
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.
Work facts p. 6-7 Project description
p. 8-11
Commission p. 12-15
series editors: Gennaro Postiglione Maddalena Scarzella
Draft proposals
p. 16-23
Final proposal
p. 24-35
Models p. 36-43 Construction drawings
p. 44-51
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Building site
p. 52-59
ASthought architecture from concept to built form
Photo gallery exteriors
p. 60-69
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Photo gallery interiors
p. 70-81
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Photo gallery surroundings
p. 82-85
Selected essay
p. 86-89
Appendix book editor: Niki Georgiou
All rights reserved © All Authors All drawings © Dap Studio All renders and construction site pictures © Dap Studio All pictures © Authors this volume has no commercial purposes but only educational goals
Milan 2013
office presentation
p. 90-93
book editor presentation
p. 94
Work facts
Project:
Cultural Centre
Address:
Passagio sciopero di Rnica, 24020, BG Ranica, Italy
Area:
2.240 m²
Type:
Mixed-use civic centre
Planned:
2006 – 2010
Built:
2007-2010
Client:
Ranica Municipality
Architect:
Dap Studio / Paola Giaconia
Responsible partners:
Pasquale Gallo, Alessia Mosci, Laura Tagliabue, Paolo Vimercati
Structural engineer:
D.Arrigoni
Awards:
OAB Awards 2011, Best Public Work 2000-2010
References: http://www.dapstudio.com/include/progetto.php?lang=it&pjid=00006 Project description:
Cultural Centre - DAP Studio&Paola Giaconia
History of Commission:
Ranica, a small medieval town in the outskirts of Bergamo, Italy, can now enjoy a piece of contemporary architecture: the new Cultural Center In a moment of weakness and vulnerability for the state of culture in Italy, Ranica responds to the situation by opening this new building, devoted to education, to community, and to intellectual energy.
Main architectural ideas:
The building, located between the historical nucleus of the town and the area of urban growth, is the physical hinge of the resulting urban structure. With its sharp and pristine image and soft color nuances alternative to the surroundin buildings, the Cultural Center stirs the urban landscape aesthetically and winks at the silvery shimmers of nearby mountains. The building is made of two volumes, one laid on top of the other, centering on an interior countryard capturing natural light and attracting pedestrians. It hosts a new “piazza”, a new meeting point for the citiziens, maintains harmony with the surrounding landscape. The lower volume is transparent, revealing the activities and stirring their curiosity instead of the upper volume sits on its top and become a signal.
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Ranica, a small medieval town in the outskirts of Bergamo, Italy, can now enjoy a piece of contemporary architecture: the new Cultural Center by DAP studio and Paola Giaconia. In a moment of weakness and vulnerability for the state of culture in Italy, Ranica responds to the situation by opening this new building, devoted to education, to community, and to intellectual energy. The Cultural Center -which opened to the public in the spring of 2010 and contains a public library, an auditorium, a kindergarten,
Project description
and a school for dance and theater- substantiates the effective synergy between the public administration of this small town in Northern Italy and the architects. The project is a manifestation of optimism in the current controversial system of Italian public works. On January 22, 2011, the project was awarded first prize by the Institute of Architects in Bergamo as the best building in Bergamo and in its province in the last ten years. The jury, chaired by Swiss architect Aurelio Galfetti, selected the project for the new Cultural Center in Ranica as the Best Public Building. Ranica, January 23, 2011 - The city of Ranica, in the province of Bergamo, Italy, inaugurates its new Cultural Center. The project, designed by DAP studio and Paola Giaconia, is the outcome of a competition launched by the Municipality of Ranica in 2005 to endow the town with an important institution that would augment its cultural and social life. The recently opened cultural center was completed in less than two years of construction, and represents a new cultural and urbanistic beacon in the territory, laying the foundations for an alternative urban organization. Thanks to this new building, the medieval town is able to revitalize its historical urban fabric by fastening it to a new contemporary hub, capable of nourishing the surrounding territory. In its devotion to culture and cultural enrichment, the institution plays a fundamental role in defining the spaces for the community. “The Cultural Center is conceived as a new catalyst of urban life. Not only is the building a laboratory for education and information, but it also becomes a new “piazza” where people can meet and where citizens can reinforce their sense of belonging to their territory,” the architects explain. The building, located between the historical nucleus of the town and the area of urban growth, is the physical hinge of the resulting urban structure. With its sharp and pristine image and soft color nuances alternative to the surrounding buildings, the Cultural Center stirs the urban landscape aesthetically and winks at the silvery shimmers of the nearby mountains and at the warm shades of dawn or sunset. “The “piazza” has always been defined in history by the physical and visual limits of the buildings that surround it. With our project -the architects say- we wanted to blur the sharp distinction between solid and void. We opened up the building to the city and welcomed pedestrian flows up to its very core.” The building -housing a public library, an auditorium, a kindergarten, and a school for dance and theater- is made of two volumes, one laid on top of the other, centering on an interior courtyard capturing natural light and attracting pedestrians. The building hosts a new “piazza”, a new meeting point for citizens. In this sense, the project for the new Cultural Center reconceives the ground. Begining at grade, the building establishes new links with the city and makes its presence felt as it rises two floors above the ground. It maintains harmony with the surrounding landscape, which inspired its design, through predominantly horizontal lines at the floor and ceiling planes of each volume. The lower volume is transparent, revealing the activities which take place inside to passerby, stirring their curiosity. The upper volume sits on its top and becomes an urban signal. Its translucent polycarbonate sheets glow with vibrant tints and allow the silhouettes of people to been through the colorful watery facade.
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Commission
On the previous page: Facade of the building
South-west side of the site Cultural Centre - Dap Studio/Giaconia
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North-east side of the site 14
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Draft proposals
Exterior 3D view Cultural Centre - Dap Studio/Giaconia
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Analysis of urban density and plant
Main axes of the site
Relation with the urban
Relation with the nature 18
Relation with the roads ASthought
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Density of the inhabitants during the day
Modelling of the volumes 20
Diagrammes of the site analysis ASthought
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Sketches 22
Progress of model ASthought
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Final proposal
siteplan Cultural Centre - Dap Studio/Giaconia
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Ground plan 26
1st floor plan ASthought
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North-west elevation 28
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South-west elevation 30
South-west elevation ASthought
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North-east elevation 32
South-east elevation ASthought
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Section AA’ 34
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Models
Upper level interior 3D modeling Cultural Centre - Dap Studio/Giaconia
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3D view of main staircase
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3D view of upper level
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Interior 3D view from the lower level 40
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Exterior 3D view 42
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Construction drawings
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Detail of attic floor(with crawl system) 46
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images
Detail of the exterior projection of the upper volume
Detail of the exterior projection of the upper volume
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Detail of the polycarbonate surface of the 50
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Polycarbonate panels ASthought
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Building site
Exterior skeleton of the construction Cultural Centre - Dap Studio/Giaconia
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Interior construction 54
Intermediate space construction ASthought
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Interior construction 56
Exterior construction ASthought
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Exterior construction of the ramp 58
Exterior construction ASthought
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Photo gallery exteriors
Atrium Cultural Centre - Dap Studio/Giaconia
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This page: Intermediate space On the left: Exterior path
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On the left page above: Relation between the pedestrian path and the exterior path On the left page below: Main entrance from the pedestrian side
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Relation with the intermediate space and open space 66
Gallery ASthought
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Opening day 68
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Photo gallery interiors
Interior urban landscape Cultural Centre - Dap Studio/Giaconia
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Relation of the two levels 72
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This page: Top view from the main staircase On the left page above: Relation between the kinder library and first floor On the left page below: Panoramic view of the interior
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On the left page above: Relation between conference hall and atrium On the left page below: Relation between library and atrium
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This page: Main staircase On the right page above: Corridor of the library_materiality On the right page below: Exhibition wall of the library
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This page: Reading place for teenagers On the left page above: Plaster elements of the library On the left page below:
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Photo gallery surroundings
Relation with the pedestrian Cultural Centre - Dap Studio/Giaconia
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This page: Relation with the square and the buildings On the right page above: Relation with the main road On the right page below: Relation with the square
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Selected essay
Gold Medal for italian architecture 2012 Cultural Centre - Dap Studio/Giaconia
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Gold Medal for Architecture 2012 88
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appendix
office presentation
Paolo Danelli was born in Milan on 28 06 1963. He graduated in 1989 at the faculty of Architecture-Politecnico in Milan. After some years of collaboration with DA Center, in 1992 he set up the DAP studio practise with Elena Sacco. Elena Sacco was born in Canelli (At) on 09 03 1965. She graduated in 1990 at the faculty of Architecture-Politecnico in Milan and she obtained the master’s degree “Promotion and improvement of cultural and territorial resources”. She lives and works in Milan as Dap studio associate architect. DAP studio is an architectural practice based in Milan from 1992, is hold by Elena Sacco and Paolo Danelli, both graduated at the faculty of Architecture-Politecnico in Milan. The office works for private customers as well as for public bodies and takes part to competitions. Researches and activities are carried out at different scales thanks to a multidisciplinary and flexible team structure, able to adapt to the multiple aspects of each project. The work carried out by the studio has so far faced many different aspects of architecture and urbanism: town planning, residential housing, office buildings, leisure and entertainment, landscape architecture... Their approach to design is based on a constant analysis and control of the relations set by the project and its program. Architecture manifests itself through a continuous process of sperimentation and discovery. DAP studio places the architectural planning and the development of plans and cultural systems side by side. Thanks to the synergy with this particular planning sphere, the studio can develop very detailed feasibility studies and preliminary programs for the architectural planning and the masterplan definition. Paolo Danelli was born in Milan on 28 06 1963. He graduated in 1989 at the faculty of Architecture-Politecnico in Milan. After some years of collaboration with DA Center, in 1992 he set up the DAP studio practise with Elena Sacco. Elena Sacco was born in Canelli (At) on 09 03 1965. She graduated in 1990 at the faculty of Architecture-Politecnico in Milan and she obtained the master’s degree “Promotion and improvement of cultural and territorial resources”. She lives and works in Milan as Dap studio associate architect.
book editor presentation
My name is Niki Georgiou and i was born on 1991 in Nicosia, which is the capital of Cyprus. I’m attending the fourth year of University of Cyprus but i’m currently undertaking a student exchange at Politecnico di Milano. I am interested in many facts of Architecture, spesifically the part of sustainable Arhitecture. I am also interested in the relation which created between the buildind and the nature. “ Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will “
Work facts
Project:
Cultural Centre
Address:
Passagio sciopero di Rnica, 24020, BG Ranica, Italy
Area:
2.240 m²
Type:
Mixed-use civic centre
Planned:
2006 – 2010
Built:
2007-2010
Client:
Ranica Municipality
Architect:
Dap Studio / Paola Giaconia
Reasponsible partners:
Pasquale Gallo, Alessia Mosci, Laura Tagliabue, Paolo Vimercati
Structural engineer:
D.Arrigoni
References:
http://www.dapstudio.com/include/progetto.php?lang=it&pjid=00006
Project description:
Cultural Centre - DAP Studio&Paola Giaconia
History of Commission:
Ranica, a small medieval town in the outskirts of Bergamo, Italy, can now enjoy a piece of contemporary architecture: the new Cultural Center by DAP Studio and Paola Giaconia. In a moment of weakness and vulnerability for the state of culture in Italy, Ranica responds to the situation by opening this new building, devoted to education, to community, and to intellectual energy
Main architectural ideas:
The building, located between the historical nucleus of the town and the area of urban growth, is the physical hinge of the resulting urban structure. With its sharp and pristine image and soft color nuances alternative to the surroundin buildings, the Cultural Center stirs the urban landscape aesthetically and winks at the silvery shimmers of nearby mountains.