area 111 – zero volume

Studio Archea, Acoustic Barriers, Florence, Italy, 2007 – photo by Pietro Savorelli Architecture of the infinite space. The mission of an architecture magazine is to open new scenarios of reflection…

Zero-volume for an architecture that is still public 2006 saw the publication of our book “Contemporary public spaces: zero volume architecture”. Our hypothesis was based on the observation that the…

Manuel Gausa From public space to relational space: we have made the transition from a monumentalistic traditional concept – representative or symbolic – to a more active, operative concept. We…

The Norwegian painter Harald Sohlberg (1869-1935) stayed in the Rondane mountain area for several years to do studies for his most famous work, Winter Night in the Mountains. The motif…

A path which is leading to a small peak is located on top of central summit in Anyang resort. Anyang resort is a park which boomed during the 70-80’s and…

An unusual open space project has been opened in the Munich city quarter of Theresienhoehe in June 2010. After a ten-year process, which took the design from an international competition…

San Donà di Piave is a typical medium-sized town in the Veneto region, where the old centre has rapidly surrounded by the physical consequence of a quick and unexpected economic…

The Lusatian Lakeland The landscape around Senftenberg is characterized by decades of coal mining. Deep mining hole brownfield sites are evidence of this widespread exploitation of nature. At this time…

Some few principal moves organize the design of Theater Square subdividing it in four main recognizable spaces: the garden in the south, the covered square in the north, the mall…

Five steps to the lake. Spadina WaveDeck is the first in a series of timber structures that explore variations of a simple articulation in the change in level between Queens…

The mountain station Schaufeljoch at 3180 metres above sea level is reached via the mountain station. The path to the mountain peak platform starts from the funicular. One climbs up…

Located in a densely vegetated site in Lake Austin, this pedestrian bridge connects the main house in the property with a newly constructed guest house. The guesthouse is surrounded by…

Benidorm is perhaps the singlemost paradigmatic Spanish city of the massive industry of leisure and tourism, a city of an extremely high density concentrated in a tiny territory. This model…

The space of the square was conceived originally as a consequence of the differences of alignment between the market, the Marquès de Sant Mori Avenue and Quevedo Street, a residual…

The project area covers a volume bound by large apartment buildings in the working-class neighborhood of Cocuzzo in Potenza. The space is that left between two rows of buildings, covered…

Located on Norway’s west coast,Trollstigen is perched within a dramatic pass between the deep fjords that characterize the region. This panoramic site can only be visited and constructed in summer,…

Writing space The artistic narration of places in the work of Gordon Young Thanks to the written language we can recount a story, describe an event, share a desire, protest…

For a long time I took only black-and-white photographs. But about seven years ago, I realized that there were so very many landscapes that I could not photograph or that…