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Designing Above-Ground Cemeteries: Challenges and Solutions

Jonathan Yeung — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 04:00:00 +0000

For centuries, burial practices across various cultures have connected honoring the deceased to the earth, with cemeteries firmly grounded in the soil as a symbol of eternal peace. Yet, as discussed in one of our articles, No More Room for the Living or the Dead: Exploring the Future for Burials in Asia, land shortages in densely developed urban areas present significant challenges to traditional burial practices, especially as societies like Japan face an aging population. Given these spatial constraints, how can above-ground cemeteries and columbariums be designed to provide a dignified, tranquil resting place while respecting cultural values?

Satispay Office / Balance Architettura [BLA]

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 14:00:00 +0000

2500 sqm of offices, for current 80 Satispay employees, designed with the capability and the flexibility to become 200 in a short time. The innovation concerns the layout of spaces, management of paths, and social-oriented approach. The offices have been planned already with post- COVID principles.

Luzzatti Home Refurbishment / Balance Architettura [BLA]

Andreas Luco — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 14:00:00 +0000

The presented project is the result of a refurbishment of a single-family residential building in a residential area of the city center of Cuneo (North of Italy). The house is a mansion of the Italian typology called "dei Ferrovieri", which starting in 1908, the State Railways Social Security, began to populate Italy and the areas adjacent to the historical centers through this building campaign, Then, subsequently, all these buildings have been incorporated in the city tissue. The building in question is from 1921, it is a preserved and bound property by the Committee of Architectural Heritage which protects its facades and external appearance. It is, therefore, to be considered an interior design intervention.

IDT-BRANDS DISTRIBUTION Offices / Balance Architettura [BLA]

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 14:00:00 +0000

IDT-BRANDS DISTRIBUTION, is a company based in Turin, that is a leader in the supply of cosmetics and clothing, both specialize in the launching and in the incubation of new realities and digital start-ups. The intervention is the first phase of the general redevelopment of the entire block that will become the first Digital Hub dedicated to e-commerce in Turin.

Terowongan Office Refurbishment / Balance Architettura [BLA]

Andreas Luco — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 13:00:00 +0000

The connecting corridor between the creative area and the administrative area is made of a green backlit fiberglass skin. The project is generated around this space, and passing through this bright tunnel is enveloping and emotional. The structure is in dry construction and the assembly of wooden and metal elements generates the connection between the different operational areas. In this project, we were interested in the genesis of permeable, penetrable surfaces, where light and air can pass through, and do not clearly define a volume or a function.

A Window on the Langhe House / Studioata

Andreas Luco — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 03:00:00 +0000

The small town of Ciglié is a village of few houses perched on the hills of the Langhe, between Ceva and Cantù, chosen by a married couple of Rotterdam, to get a place in Italy where they could go to live some months of the year. The medieval castle of Ciglié, vineyards, nut and hazel trees and the great views over Mondovì and the whole of the Alpine arc are some of the elements that inspired this small architecture.

Amilu Farmhouse / F:L Architetti

Andreas Luco — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 12:00:00 +0000

The building, located halfway up the hill of Gassino T.se (Turin), is the result of a replacement project with expansion for the construction of a single-family villa with attached farmhouse. On the lot, there was a rural building dating back to the 1930s but modified and enlarged in later times, without significant architectural and historical features. The intervention included the complete demolition of the existing building and the construction of a new one for residential and agricultural use, built largely on the footprint of the existing structure. The aim was to identify client’s aspirations developing responses to their desire for quality and architectural sustainability, combining the needs of an educational farm open to the public with the possibility of enjoying intimacy in the context of the family.

Green Balconies: Gardens with Altitude

Belén Maiztegui — Wed, 06 May 2020 10:00:00 +0000

With the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping through the world's urban centers, governments worldwide are urging citizens to hunker down at home in a bid to quell the virus' spread. For apartment dwellers under quarantine, balconies have become the new platforms for entertainment and social interaction, making now an opportune moment in rethinking how we design and build these outdoor urban spaces.

D’angolo House / Raimondo Guidacci

Andreas Luco — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 11:00:00 +0000

San Severo is a small town near Foggia. The historic city centre is chacterized by two-storey and three-storey buildings. There are also tall edifices and depositories. This architectures have facades realized with bricks or white plaster. Many of this buildings are covered with Apricena’s stone in the low part. Usually they are closed by a flat roof or by a pitched roof, not very sloped. The part that comes out of the roof is always restricted according to the mediterranean house tipology. “Casa d’angolo” was born in this contest. A building based on a rectangular plan and realized starting from an old storage.

15 Projects of Steel Stealing the Show

Dima Stouhi — Fri, 24 May 2019 07:30:00 +0000

The use of steel in architecture is considered as one of the most innovative construction developments in history, allowing architects to create structures in scales they never thought they could. Fast-forward a few centuries, and steel remains as one of the most crucial materials in architecture. But there is a lot more to the material than just tensile strength and durability, some architects were well-aware of steel's potential and transformed it into lighting fixtures, facades, decorative elements, and finishes.

Portland / Balance Architettura [BLA]

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 02:00:00 +0000

The apartment is a unit on the fifth floor of a late ‘50s building, located on the front of the Valentino Park in Torino (Italy). The Southeast exposure makes the flat very bright and all the openings to the outside enjoy the beautiful panorama of the hills of Turin and the Po River.

FERMI / BLAARCHITETTURA

Cristian Aguilar — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 15:00:00 +0000

The research for a bright space has been the first intention from the beginning. The second one has been the aim to reach an high quality in informal spaces applying care to the construction details and choice of materials. The situation at the beginning of the design process was presented by an apartment with a high degree of obsolescence resulting need to do major renovation work at the level of distribution and systems. From the start has been done a parallel work between architectural design and thermal/acoustic design, this last one directly followed by the client, which is a professio- nal in the sector.

Atelier Fleuriste / Elastico Farm

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 14:00:00 +0000

The project involves the total re-development of a nineenth-century house forming part of an unbroken street front, plus the creation within the inner garden of a new structure. The aim to give clear and confident expression to the presence of an unusual facility within an urban context that is, at the moment, rather a jumble of surviving rural building and more recent development.

The house on the house / Raimondo Guidacci

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 15:00:02 +0000

This project involves the extension of a detached house at Trofarello, in a zone characterized by the presence of many detached houses within small lots. At the old pitched roof was build a new volume intended to contain a bedroom and a small bathroom.

caboto26 / Raimondo Guidacci

Diego Hernández — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 05:00:26 +0000

The project concerns the construction of a small building in a courtyard in the center of Turin.
Actually this is the restoration of an old laboratory, used in the past as a Carpenter, and external storage.

25 Green / Luciano Pia

Diego Hernández — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 02:00:14 +0000

A new house has put down its roots in Turin. Its structure is in steel and it looks like a forest where trees are rooted in terraces with irregular shapes, ponds are crossed by footings and lush gardens cover the roofs. The building has been thought as a living forest, a house on the trees like the houses children dream of and sometimes build.

San Mauro Torinese Cemetery Extension / Raimondo Guidacci

Karen Valenzuela — Thu, 29 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The cemetery of San Mauro Torinese is extended in its west side, at the feet of the Superga hill.

White House / Raimondo Guidacci

Andrew Rosenberg — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The project for this small detached house at Orsara di Puglia, is the outcome of a close collaboration between client and architect (lengthy discussion between brothers, to be precise). It is a very simple volume: a white cube measuring 10 meters on each side, excavated, squared, geometrical, apparently abstract, but actually similar to many buildings in the countryside of Foggia.