Data Architecture
Historically,
building typologies were the palimpsest through which it has been possible to
organize cities and society according to functions, social groups, categories
and classes. In the age of big data and artificial intelligence, our societies require more
diverse and heterogeneous alternatives, different models that engender our
nimble and increasingly atomised communities.
The project explores n ew architectural typologies that are emerging out of a growing demand for integrating the artificial, the natural and the machinic worlds. Modernism strived over the myth of global urbanization. Today, digital infrastructures and automated technologies render affordable reconnecting with the locale, shortening global value chains and strengthening distributed strategies.
Category: Research
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The market represents the space of relationships and exchange, a place which, adapting and transforming over time, constitutes the beating heart of the city's social and commercial relations.
It is precisely the markets that have made the fortune of the historic Italian cities: from the Rialto market in Venice to the Mercato di Mezzo in Bologna or Sant’Ambrogio in Florence.
Riccione’s market square is, at the same time, a crucial and unresolved place in the urban fabric of the city. The project proposes a technological and multifunctional roof in the center of the square, a building without facades, a shelter that can also provides a spectacular backdrop for events and shows: a place to display and trade the best agricultural products and craft of the region.
Category: Commercial
Architecturel Design : OPENSYSTEMS
Visualization: DIMA
Date: 2023 - ongoing
Site: Piazza Unita, Riccione (IT)
DICE
OPENSYSTEMS lands its first project in China as a collaboration with NN, a fashion retailer in Xintiandi Style, Shanghai. DICE, a sculptural installation to mark the entrance of the store. The piece takes inspiration from the contemporary flair of the fashion
labels on display and it resembles the form a primitive crystalline formation: the prismatic dodecahedra that compose the artwork is inspired by the geometry that can can be found in natural crystals and rocks.
Project Team:
Marco Vanucci
Date: 2015
Site: Xintiandi, Shanghai (CN)
Status: Completed
Size: 300 sqm
Co-Living Cloud
competition entry for a co-living residential tower in London South Bank. The project consists of 25 co-living units that combine private and public spaces for up to 8 dwellers each. The units are stacked to form a dense and yet porous assembly, alternating sky gardens, sky plazas, and communal and private outdoor areas.
The design of the units follows a modular construction logics and are designed for off-site prefabrication and on-site quick deployment and assembly. While the modularity offer standardization facilitating manufacturing and assembly, the composition allows for a high degree of customization and differentiation of the spatial qualities of each unit.
Category: Residential
ASA HQ
The project consists of 800sqm productive area which will house the latest digital metal printing technology, and 800sqm at first floor level where offices, meeting rooms, changing rooms and ancillary facilities will be placed.
The building was designed as a “kit of parts” and
takes
advantage of the latest technologies of pre-fabrication and assembl which minimised time of construction and costs while maximising on-site safety.
The project questions the role of architecture in the process of integrating
automated machines and human labour. The traditional dichotomy of blue and white collars is rendered obsolete by the ‘grey collars’, the work force of the digital age. Unlike the traditional fordist factory, based on the assembly line where humans work as machine, the new grey collar factory requires an upgrade of the workforce for managing automated machines. For this reason the space is a hybrid between an office, a lab and a workshop where comfort, communication and wellbeing are key factor to productivity.
