The proposal for the new school ‘Filippo Verna’ in Fara San Martino emerged as part of the Italian national project of the Scuola Futura – La Scuola per l’Italia di Domani, aiming to provide modern and adapted educational edifices to the local communities all around the country. The intervention site is located in a village consisting […]

The challenge of designing the New Auditorium brings into being the need to question the ambivalent role it is called upon to assume, having to stand both in continuity with the other poles of the Student Citadel and as a landmark for the city of Bagheria. An analysis following the history  of the auditorium and […]

The project idea emerges form the desire to propose not a simple school complex, but rather an actively educational pole that can fit organically into the urban context of the city of Bagheria, Palermo. The new high school, therefore, should not only function independently but also be conceived as an integral part of the existing, […]

The project for the “Memorial to the fallen soldiers of the defense patriotic war of the Republika Srpska” is today an opportunity not only to remember the courage of the soldiers who fell during the war in the period 1991-1996 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also a monument against all wars, especially those of oppression […]

Forests, woods, parks, trees and bushes all require light for their metabolic processes which are at the base of the Life on Earth. In the recent years reforestation has been one of the most crucial topic about the mitigation of Climate Change effects; the same attention must be given to the existing forests. A stressed […]

DH2OME is a game-changing infrastructure that aims to provide gallons of fresh water every day where is most needed. Many of the countries that are experiencing severe droughts and water scarcity are in the tropical area and the majority of these are under-developed or developing countries, where the sun is shining most of the year […]

The recent newly renovated Park Royal Collection, Marina Bay (formerly known as Marina Mandarin) involves the remaking of the Neo-futuristic American architect John Portman’s spectacular hotel which was built in1987. The existing hotel offered the ideal stage for the reinvention of the atrium hotel, with bringing the garden into the atrium. Upon entering, guests will […]

Optical illusion and disorientation are the terms that characterize this project. The purpose induces reflection in the passage between one space and another, between one environment and another. Recognizing the spatial dimension, not automatically but according to a considered perception, becomes a mode that allows understanding of every aspect of the domestic place. In the […]

In this project the altro_studio’s research for optical illusion and movement is underlined through color. Black and white stripes surround the entire house, creating a place strongly dynamic and, at the same time, arousing a state of instability of perception towards the observer. Black and white are among the primary colors of the history of […]

The house is characterized by a system of opaque and transparent walls The opaque walls, which have murals on both sides (inside-outside) can rotate, varying their image as needed, but maintaining their role as shading elements and protection from the sun. We are talking about a particular portico concept, considered in this case as a […]