Subject and location

The Tesserete branch is the most important of the three branches of today’s Raiffeisen Bank of Cassarate.

It is located in the heart of the village, a place of transit, of meetings, a fact of daily life.

The building has always played a key role in the community and over the years it has undergone many transformations. The most recent works have radically affected the ground floor and partially changed the layout of the second floor, born from the client’s need to change its sales model to a consulting bank, more flexible, professional and open to customers.

The design objectives can be summarized in three points:

The desire to improve the welcome and the use of space.
Greater transparency and openness to the outside world, to the square and to the people who live there.
To bring more natural light into the ground floor.

These objectives have been realized thanks to a single façade element that characterizes the entire transformation project, defining its path and its new spatiality. The vertical metal slats embrace the entire exterior façade, characterizing it and making it a decorative element that accompanies the user along the entire path that leads him from the outside to first perceive and then discover the interior spaces. The obvious curvature of the façade, in contrast to the massive existing masonry, softens and emphasizes the entrance while defining the interior spaces.

Finally, the light that we have been able to bring into the interior generates the space, highlights the simple and clear materials, gives rhythm, punctuates the spaces and brings balance to the structure.

 

Table of contents

Ground floor:

As described, the wall in glass and vertical metal slats marks the path and defines the interior spaces.

In sequence, we find the 24-hour ATM in the entrance lobby, the two Selfcash ATM stations behind the sliding door to our left, and a large cabinet in front of us defining the welcome desk and customer waiting area. Separated and defined by the vertical metal slat wall is the short consultation lounge that houses an interactive screen.

First floor:

Timely interventions provided four consultation rooms, the back office reserved for staff, and a new vertical oak slat wall that defines the second floor arrival area and separates the dining area.

CURIO

Design 2017 – Realization 2018 – 2020

 

OBJECT AND PLACE

The project is located in “Runcaa” in the municipality of Curio in a parcel raised from the cantonal road from which access is guaranteed via a private connecting road.

The design system is strongly determined by the morphology and orientation of the land and the natural stone wall acts as an ordering element, defining the hierarchy of the external spaces and the path that accompanies the user to the entrance of the building and then discovers the ground floor and the limits of the garden. Developed on three levels, the main volume is placed perpendicularly to the stone wall and occupies the northernmost part of the fund, leaving a void to the south dedicated to the entrances, the garden and a volume at the service of external activities.

 

CONTENTS

Semi-basement floor:

Outside we find the square, access to the garage and to the house. The strong presence of the stone wall leads the user to the entrance of the house and welcomes him in a double height space. An open staircase runs parallel to the wall and leads to the living area opening onto the garden.At the same level we find the service rooms such as the cloakroom, the cellar, the laundry, the technical room, a service toilet, a storage room and a garage for two cars.

 

Ground floor:

The contents are the classic ones of a living area; a large open space houses the living room, the dining room and the kitchen overlooking the garden. Separate are the service areas such as the pantry, and a guest service. From the living room, a large window defines the boundary between the inhabited space and the outdoor garden, the latter partially arranged as a terrace with solar coverage.

A comfortable and scenic staircase furnishes this space and leads to the first floor.

 

First floor:

A distributive space overlooks the double height of the staircase and guarantees access to the two single bedrooms, the toilet-shower and the master bedroom with wardrobe and bathroom. The double bedroom and bathroom overlook a private terrace facing west.

Centro Lugano Sud
Grancia

Design 2018 – Realization 2018-2019

OBJECT AND PLACE

Since 1991, the Lugano Sud Center is one of the most popular shopping centers in Ticino and attracts visitors from both Switzerland and Northern Italy. Built in two successive phases, after several years of activity the management has changed its corporate identity and revised the exhibition concept, defining new standards translated into the project presented.

In addition to expressing the new image within the project, the expressed will is to give more depth and brightness to the spaces.

The new image of the center is the result of a restyling carried out on the common part of the spaces and lasted 18 months, always guaranteeing the operation and safety of the center.

 

CONTENTS

The interventions involved the reconstruction of the pavements and the false ceilings of the external square and of the internal halls, inserting new light bodies in the latter.

More punctual interventions are considered the new entrance doors, the demolition and reconstruction of some elevators and hoists, the opening of new windows, as well as the creation of new services for personnel and customers.

Throughout the center, new signage and interactive LED walls have been set up.

Heightening
ORIGLIO

Project 2014 -Realisation 2015-2016

OBJECT AND PLACE
Located in the hamlet of Carnago in the commune of Origlio, the plot and the existing building border the west with the forest and to the east by the cantonal road, from which you have access to the property.
The extension and elevation of the existing building examines the entire volume and redefines its shape and proportions, unifying the old and the new through design choices and the use of a single covering material.
The project, strongly bound by the distance from the forest and the existing volume, is characterized by a pitched roof with several slopes that defines the volume, the path and the internal spatial hierarchy.

CONTENTS
The path starts from the new extension to the north containing the staircase that guarantees access to the new living spaces and the first level; the particular shape of the roof accompanies the user along a path that first discovers the living room in double height and then continues upwards, towards the light, and concludes on a higher level with the dining room, the kitchen and, on the outside, with a large terrace.
On the first floor, in addition to the living room, are the sleeping areas with their children’s rooms, the parents’ master bedroom and, in the center, a common service and laundry.

The extension is entirely made of prefabricated wood with a mineral finish.

Single Family house
TORRICELLA TAVERNE

Design 2012 – Realisation 2013-2014

OBJECT AND PLACE
Located in the residential area of Torricella, the small parcel of 360 sqm facing south-east is characterized by a steep slope in the upper part of the bottom, bordering the municipal road, where access is foreseen. The project envisages a single compact volume distributed on three levels; A visible reinforced concrete monolith with OSB Formworks and a double-pitched roof in reinforced concrete; The external rooms are made with armed lands planted with green so as to highlight the volume of the building.

CONTENTS
At the highest level is organized the main entrance and the garage; The geometry and the shape of the flaps spatially lead the user through the corridor towards the double height and to the staircase leading to the living spaces. A storage room, a wardrobe and the studio house conclude the spaces of this floor.
On the ground floor a double height hosts the living room, communicating with the lunch and the kitchen. Separate we find the service spaces such as the pantry and a guest service. From lunch you can access the outside terrace.
In the lower part of the house are organized the spaces dedicated to the night, a double bedroom with wardrobe and WC shower, two single rooms, a bathroom and a small laundry. Next to the building, partially underground, there is a space dedicated to the storage of tools for the garden and the technical premises.

Single Family house
CAPRIASCA BIGORIO

Design 2011 – Realisation 2012-2013

OBJECT AND PLACE
Located in the countryside of the village of Bigorio, the land is exposed to the south-east and is accessible from the municipal road, from which pedestrian and vehicular access is guaranteed.
The project exploits the difference in height between the road and the natural ground level to create a large garage and internal underground service access; above these, an outdoor patio is obtained, while the two-storey volume defines the living spaces, more backward. Two materials characterize the project; the reinforced concrete for the underground volume and the external arrangements and the facing brick for the home.

CONTENTS
An open space on the ground floor houses the living room, the dining room, the kitchen with pantry, located at a lower level than the entrance hall. Separated are the service areas such as the wardrobe and a guest service. From the living room a large window defines the physical limit between the internal space and the outdoor patio, the latter partly used as a terrace and a natural continuation of the living room.
A comfortable staircase leads to the first floor and to the distribution area of ​​the sleeping area connected by double height to the entrance hall. Separate the master spaces with the master bedroom, wardrobe and bathroom, two single bedrooms, a toilet, a shower and a laundry complete the spaces of this floor.
At the back of the house a partially buried volume occupies the technical spaces and those serving the garden.