ATIPOGRAFIA: an progressive collage of kinds and textures
ATIPOGRAFIA, a cultural affiliation and modern artwork gallery, now occupies a former printworks manufacturing facility from the early Twentieth century. Accomplished by native structure and analysis studio AMAA, the renovated advanced takes form in Arzignano, in Northern Italy‘s province of Vicenza, combining a late artwork nouveau villa and a manufacturing facility constructing that has undergone a number of extensions. The latter displays the area’s industrial heritage, that includes a various vary of commercial constructions, from expansive factories to small courtyard sheds.
At first look, the repurposed areas reveal an progressive collage of periodical kinds and textures, serving as a profitable instance of how adaptively reusing current buildings can result in progressive concepts, meticulous building, and aesthetic finesse.
all photographs © Simone Bossi, courtesy AMAA
amaa introduces the idea of ‘threshold & treasure’
Marcello Galiotto and Alessandra Rampazzo from AMAA (see extra here) teamed up with landscape architect Angelo Rena to carry ATIPOGRAFIA to life following the idea of ‘Threshold & Treasure’. The thresholds are linear constructions of various widths that outline a sequence of pathways resulting in the positioning’s treasures, together with each artworks and preserved empty areas.
Going through the road, the architects constructed the primary entrance utilizing uncovered concrete, creating an entry level that triples as a sculpture, a body, and a deep house for additional exploration. As soon as this primary threshold is crossed, guests are led to a peaceable backyard which in flip results in a important exhibition hub on the bottom ground. There, a Twentieth-century, dimly lit, and compact Dom-Ino black body inside greets guests, adopted by a vivid corridor that was the guts of the printworks manufacturing facility.
the primary entrance gate of ATIPOGRAFI, product of uncovered concrete
‘The principle exhibition space is a multi-material house that includes a clean concrete ground and repair block, mixed with the outdated partitions and ceilings product of stone and wooden, together with a clear veranda product of glass and steel, serving as one other threshold that opens as much as the innermost courtyard,’ writes the studio.
The higher stage of ATIPOGRAFIA is accessible by way of a brand new concrete staircase that separates the home designated for resident artists from the one devoted to the exhibited works. Guests ascend by way of a roof backyard that affords a 360-degree view of the environment and enter the atelier, an area reserved for the gallery and its workplaces, which features a ground adorned by kids from a nursery in Borneo, as per the shopper’s choice.
In the meantime, the atelier is accessed by way of a pivoting glass door protected by a sliding panel product of natural-colored metal, which serves as an industrial reference and represents probably the most intricate among the many numerous bespoke parts designed for this undertaking, together with all door and window fixtures.
the artwork nouveau villa for resident artists
