“Our research team investigated schools playing with the words ‘circular architecture’. We experimented with circular school layouts as well as with techical specifications designing an assembly kit to push the principles of circularity, in the aim to reach maximum flexibility and the possibility to dismantle the building at end of its life as well as recycling its construction materials. 

LAND-CR.AF.T.ED is a protorype of public social housing combined with agriculture (arboriculture and pixel-farming). A new vision of living in balance between the built and the nature. Segantini: “It is a new vision to give everyone a social home capable of generating quality food at affordable prices, regenerating impoverished landscapes, building cohesive multi-ethnic and multicultural communities, de-carbonising the construction sector and introducing innovation and circularity in the construction field to restore balance between buildings and nature.”

Winner of the international competition organized by Vlaams Bouwmeester and Leiedal (Open Call) for the construction of a low-tech office building in Kortrijk, Belgium, the project represents our approach to a holistic and low-tech design and works on the essence construction and minimum plant equipment, obtaining maximum living comfort. The project criticizes sustainable design that aims to add super-performing glass facades, green-washing or photovoltaic panels on the roof to the building, often hiding the lack of quality of the design itself. With its thick inhabited walls, the new office building for Leiedal is a building for the next 200 years: inhabited by people and plants, it becomes a metaphor of the search for a new equilibrium to inhabit the planet. https://www.leiedal.be/nieuws/leiedal-timmert-aan-slimme-verdichting-met-nieuw-kantoorgebouw

The City Council approved the detailed design for the new Piazza Tiraboschi. The project regenerates the entire area surrounding the GAMeC Museum, connecting it both physically and functionally to the context, redesigning the public spaces, car and bike infrastructures, green areas, and parking grafting the design in the urban system composed of the city parks (Parco Suardi, Parco Marenzi, and Parco del Galgario), the cultural/residential hub of the former Montelungo-Colleoni Barracks, and the key road junctions of Via Cesare Battisti, Viale Muraine, Via Suardi, Via Frizzoni, and Via del Galgario. Maria Alessandra outlines the ethical and political vision behind the project, which aims to promote social cohesion: “Museums often intimidate citizens, especially teenagers. We want GAMeC Museum to become a city hub, connecting outdoor and indoor public spaces and attracting different social groups.