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• CLIENT: CSIS – Consejo Superior de Investigacion Cientificas
• PROJECT: Riccardo Crespi Architetto (AdHocMsl)
• AREA: 2.000mq
• BUDGET: 4.000.000€
• PHASES: Competition

Project description_

Nell’anno 2008 il Reale Ministrero delle Cultura spagnolo decise, attraverso il Consiglio Superiore per la Ricerca Scientifica (CSIC) di bandire un concorso internazionale ad inviti per la ristrutturazione di un palazzo del ‘700 a Roma in cui avrebbe avuto sede la nuova Scuola di Storia ed Archeologia.

Il bando richiedeva la realizzazione di:

• Piano terra e seminterrato: una biblioteca aperta al pubblico con sale lettura
• Piano primo: una sala conferenze e proiezioni, sale lettura e uno spazio polivalente
• Piano secondo: uffici per  ricercatori, ufficio della segretaria generale ed un ufficio per il direttore con segretaria personale
• Piano terzo: sale studio per i ricercatori ed una camera oscura
• Piano quarto: camere da letto e mini appartamenti per accogliere studenti e ricercatori fuori sede
• Piano quinto: appartamento per il direttore della Scuola con terrazza

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• CLIENT: Ciudad de Vitoria-Gasteiz
• PROJECT: Riccardo Crespi Architetto (AdHocMsl)
• AREA: 38.000mq
• BUDGET: 138.500.000€
• PHASES: Competition

Project description_

The Basque Country is one of the European regions where it is strongest attention to the sustainability of completed buildings. This is why one of the fundamental conditions imposed by the competition for the new Palace of Music and Congress Centre of Vitoria-Gasteiz was the realization of a building that would become a reference at European level both from a cultural point of view architecture.

Accordingly our project proposed the possibility of leaving completely free and filtering ground 50% of the available plot, and to destine the empty 50%  to the planting of tall trees with the aim to create at the same time an amazing natural foyer.  A building in a forest, as opposed to the typical monumentality of concert halls and convention centers, broken down into 4 volumes all having in common the entrance foyer and completely immersed in a completely natural environment.

Sustainability is not just about making a building surrounded by green. Therefore it consists in applying what are commonly  defined as a passive systems in the energy management, absolutely essential and of central importance that in our proposal are even more important because they generate the design process.

The 70% of the roof was made with a plant cover for a specific technical  reason and not purely propaganda. Thanks to the excellent insulating performances during the winter season and to the refreshing value during the summer , that kind of roof could provide sustainable benefit  while ensuring a maximum efficiency.

To increase the natural circulation of the interior spaces, we designed a sort solar chimneys, as a sky light,  that characterize the building’ appeal due to their shape, creating a sort of artificial roof path. Aforementioned skylight are  openable truncated pyramid structure  carefully designed, located  and distributed in the roof. That elements allow through the daily solar exposure the heating of the air present inside them.

In this way, thanks to the difference thermal gradient between the cones and the air present within the building and exploiting the natural convective motion of the same to the higher temperatures, they generate  movements of air that cool naturally the interiors. Skylights’ locations have greatly influenced the general layout . Accordingly the halls, to achieve the best  acoustic performance, are characterized by a very simple shape but internally characterized by a sophisticated design in order to ensure the best quality in terms of acoustic point of view.

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• CLIENT: City of Bern
  
• PROJECT: Riccardo Crespi Architetto (AdHocMsl)
  
• AREA: 400mq
• BUDGET: 20.000.000 CHF – 18.370.000€

Project description_

The competition involves the construction of a new Palace of Sports for the City of Bern within existing sports area located near an urban park. The request was to design a building able to accommodate the most important sport event with 2,000 seats and a secondary gym instead intended not only dedicated to the training of local teams, but also available  for the sport event of neighborhood schools.Both should have been equipped with the necessary auxiliary rooms, such as changing rooms, press room, offices for coaches and management, department stores and multi-purpose halls, as well as a parking areas for almost 150 cars.

Due to difference in height of about 4 m noticed in the plot we found almost natural to use aforementioned differences as a fundamental starting point for the development of the project. The aim was to take advantage of this formless plot and to use it as the main concept of our design. Accordingly we decided to develop and to design an artificial urban landscape, used as a public green park,  that becomes the roof of the ancillary functions including a portion of the parking areas used by the athletes and those who attend the sports hall.

The gym, to observe the correct height, was located at -6.00 m. Therefore the main public  entrance , lobby , and public parking entrance were conceived as a continuation of the public space of the city creating a direct connection with it. That spaces are designed as a mineral hard-scape, finished in Porfido and Cement.

The tribunes are conceived as a pure volume that stands out from the roof. The intention was to design a visible and recognizable element, that should evoke the image of being a jewel.

The structure of this volume, in order to respect the Swiss building tradition, was designed completely in wood, structure and finish as well.Moreover the roof’s main structure is in steel trusses, and the roof’s final finish layer was assumed to be in ETFA, an extremely light material with a  great thermal insulation  and an excellent capacity to diffuse the natural light.