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House Around the Hearth

Posted by Umberto

"It must have been nice, on winter evenings, to lie on the mats before the log fire, and listen to the voice of the forest in wild talks with the wind"

Grazia Delledda in Marianna Sirca, 1915

CREDITS
Client: Private
Tipology: House in the Alps
Place: Fomarco, Italy
Year: 2017
Sqm: 213
Architectural Design: ATOMAA
Design Team: Daniela Serini, Eleonora Salsa, Elizaveta Ukhabina, Chantal Limonta, Philip Kolevsohn, Benedetta Vitale
Photography: Alberto Strada

Brera

Posted by Umberto

This apartment, with its limited surface area paired with the contemporary needs required by adaptable homes in an urban context, challenged us to search for solutions which optimized spatial flexibility.

The technical spaces are gathered in a functional nucleus positioned on the perimeter of the living space, furthest away from the light coming from the two large windows. The maximized spatial optimization results in highly compact functional elements, leaving the open spaces of the apartment filled with light and with views towards the garden.

The project strategy aims at solving technical, functional and ergonomic issues with an inclusive logic within fixed and movable furnishing elements in order to highlight the breadth and interchangeability of the main inhabitable space.

With chromatic finishes in mind, the colours of the walls tend to follow and reinforce the qualitative differences of the varied private spaces, starting from the white and luminous colour in the most public areas, up to a fuller, saturated grey, in the more private areas; perceptions within the home change depending on the perspective in which the user is immersed.

CREDITS

Client: Private
Tipology: Micro Living
Place: Milan, Italy
Year: 2015.09
Sqm: 32
Architectural Design: ATOMAA
Design Team: Mert Bozurt, Danilo Monzani
Photography: Luca Broglia
Carpenter: Giuseppe Marra

House in a eucalyptus forest

Posted by andrea

Located on a slope, in a peculiar and small "green valley" in the middle of the Chilean desert, in the forest of Aguas Claras, the house acts as a retaining wall between the upper most level of the site, the main access level, and the lowest level, which serves as the main inhabitable space of the house.

An impressive 40 cm thick concrete wall, 30 meters long, is punctured to give access to the house through an underground patio, which then hides the underground utilities.

Every room opens to the landscape towards the north, east and west side of the valley, but remains protected from the southern wind and humidity by the wall.

Metallic roofs are placed lightly upon the concrete Wall. While the dining/living room is made of concrete, the bedrooms and service "boxes" are composed of black painted locally sourced pine.

CREDITS:

Client: Private
Tipology: Forest House
Place: Cachagua, V Región, Chile
Year: 2015.08
Sqm: 224
Architectural Design: Matias Zegers Arquitectos, Andrea Del Pedro Pera Associate Architect - ATOMAA
Design Team: Daniela Bustamante Canales, Vicente Navarrete, Gonzalo Sebastian Cisternas Perez Landscape Architect: Rebecca Emmons
Photography: Andrea Del Pedro Pera
General contractor: Constructora Seacoast Ltda.

Per Form House

Posted by Philip Kolevsohn

The dancer William Forsythe showed us how from a line, you can improvise a beautiful choreography. If you imagine two points on your body (or one in space and one on the skin) you can also imagine the line that unites them. These lines can be joined, extended, extruded, folded, followed. Thus, the body constantly creates lines and reacts to imaginary lines in space, thus always dancing in the spaces in which it inhabits. Thus, the imaginary lines of our body interact with the lines of the space we inhabit and living becomes choreography.

In this project, the lines dividing the space were moved towards the center of the room, opening new visual axes along the perimeter walls. With a playful design strategy, the goal was to remove the service spaces from the edges, thus freeing the sources of natural light and allowing greater freedom of movement along the newly designed paths of the space. The apartment and the user talk to each other in a performance made of light movements and silent mechanisms.

The new geometry circulates around a central point. This volume is capable of containing the relocated service spaces but at the same time defines the shape of the spaces around it: a small entrance, an anteroom with dressing table, the bedroom and the kitchen. The central core is cut by a ray of sunshine: a corner retreats, leaving room for light and opening the view to the kitchen.

The character of the apartment is defined by lines of colour, material textures and sliding elements in polycarbonate. These lightweight panels allow for a continuous reconfiguration of the space, hiding from view, when necessary, while still allowing light to reach the bright corners of the apartment.

The furniture design maximizes flexibility and variability in the use of the apartment, so that the living room and the bedroom coexist in a single space without being present at the same time.

CREDITS

Client: Private
Typology: Micro Apartment
Place: Milan, Italy
Year: 2014.09
Sqm: 42
Architectural Design: ATOMAA, Studio Asabesi
Design Team: Daniela Serini
Photography: Jule Hering
General contractor: Relazioni Edili RE
Carpenter: LINEALEGNO