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Garden Cooperativa / Nunzio Gabriele Sciveres + Giuseppe Gurrieri

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 29 Sep 2018 13:00:00 +0000

The architectural program of the building cooperative foresees the realization of sixteen residences within a plan of social housing in Marina di Ragusa in Sicily. The project origins from the analysis of the Sicilian natural and urban landscape, a land full of great contradictions: a beautiful and complex place, which lies in between cultural heritage and traditions, conservation and transformation, architectural experimentation and conventional living. Through design, we have explored the genesis of the Mediterranean built environment: a multidimensional representation in which it is hard to separate the natural landscape from the city, the city from the architecture, the architecture from people’s lives.

Port Control Tower / Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The Port Control Tower design process started during the works for the new tourist port in Marina di Ragusa, (Ragusa, ITA), as a consequence of the upcoming decision of the client, Ente Porto Marina di Ragusa, who was searching for a new proposal succeeding the previous one, already in progress. The client’s purpose was to produce a building that can achieve the status of symbol of the all port equipments, but of course previous scheme’s existence sets up some limits: existing foundations, volume and height permitted, budget.

Villa GM / Architrend Architecture

Christopher Henry — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

This villa, like a garden pavilion hung with a spectacular view of the sea, is part of a complex of houses located in Marina di Ragusa, the seafaring village of Ragusa, on a plot of land with beautiful views overlooking the Mediterranean and a stretch of coast in the direction of the island of Malta, distant about sixty miles off, and that in a bright day you can see clearly. The design of the villa derives from the influence exercised by the program of the Case Study Houses (CSH) implemented in the '50s by John Entenza and the magazine he founded "Art & Architecture". The house is more representative of the program is certainly the case study houses of Pierre Koenig's Stahl House, masterfully photographed by Julius Shulman, became an icon of American lifestyle in the famous photo of the living room of the house with the background on the amazing night view of Los Angeles. The position of the batch of the project and the cultural similarities with that program became the essence of contemporary absolutely present after more than fifty years, has determined the main choices that affect the architecture of the house.