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Francesca Pasquali Archive

FRANCESCA PASQUALI ARCHIVE

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MANUFACTURERS
Mogs, Targetti, Zucchetti, Fenix, Simas

CLIENT
Francesca Pasquali

CONSULTANTS
EN7 srl and Eng. Massimiliano Marchesini

PHOTOGRAPHS
Fabio Mantovani

AREA
250.0 m2

YEAR
2017

LOCATION
Collina di Palesio, Varignana-Palesio BO, Italy

CATEGORY
Offices, Adaptive Reuse

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Text description provided by architect.

A barn from the 1960s turned into a workplace for the artist, an experimental and narrative environment where the light and surrounding hills shape the architecture.

The needs of the client have been translated into design gestures, in line with the essence of the building, which is not of particularly architectural quality, but interesting for the spaces that it can hold inside.

Francesca Pasquali Archive
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Francesca Pasquali Archive
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Planimetric distribution places on the ground floor all the main rooms and restrooms, in order to completely free up the first floor and dedicate it to a large open space overlooking the landscape, taking advantage of existing heights to get a bright and ventilated space.

Another fundamental element of the project is symmetry. 

The structural shape of the ground floor is given by a reinforced concrete structure with two rows of pillars marking the plan.

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In fact, the project started from the pillars to rearrange the rooms and following the needs of the client.

The plan has been thus divided into three parts:

two wider spaces characterized by a laboratory and a study, and a third dedicated to services that become a filter zone between the two main spaces.

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In fact, this aspect is translated into the transformation of the facades, with the creation of large openings to increase the internal-external relationship in the first-floor space.

A third fundamental aspect of the project is the relationship with the landscape, which is pursued through a greater visual connection.

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Volumes Axonometric
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Staircase Volume Axonometric


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Ground Floor Spaces Diagram
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Exploded Axonometric Diagram


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Staircase Diagram
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Metal Sheet Configurations


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Metal Sheet Diagram
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Landscape Overview

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