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Atelier Bagnoli

Toti Semerano designed for artist Marco Bagnoli an atelier and cultural centre near Florence, which has the potential to evolve gradually over time into a more complex organism.

Toti Semerano, Atelier Bagnoli, Montelupo Fiorentino, Italy, 2016. Foto Mario Lensi

The basic idea of the project is to create a core set, which consists of a studio atelier that has the potential to evolve gradually over time into a more complex organism. Bagnoli Atelier is a center for contemporary arts that can host exhibitions and performances, in close relationship with the territory and its specificity, with great attention to art academies and in close contact with the workshops at the place.

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Toti Semerano, Atelier Bagnoli, Montelupo Fiorentino, Italy, 2016

Toti Semerano, Atelier Bagnoli, Montelupo Fiorentino, Italy, 2016

Toti Semerano, Atelier Bagnoli, Montelupo Fiorentino, Italy, 2016

Toti Semerano, Atelier Bagnoli, Montelupo Fiorentino, Italy, 2016

Toti Semerano, Atelier Bagnoli, Montelupo Fiorentino, Italy, 2016

Toti Semerano, Atelier Bagnoli, Montelupo Fiorentino, Italy, 2016

Toti Semerano, Atelier Bagnoli, Montelupo Fiorentino, Italy, 2016. Right: photo Mario Lensi

Toti Semerano, Atelier Bagnoli, Montelupo Fiorentino, Italy, 2016. Right: photo Mario Lensi

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Toti Semerano, Atelier Bagnoli, ground floor

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Toti Semerano, Atelier Bagnoli, first floor

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Toti Semerano, Atelier Bagnoli, elevation

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Toti Semerano, Atelier Bagnoli, elevation

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Toti Semerano, Atelier Bagnoli, section

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Toti Semerano, Atelier Bagnoli, section

Atelier spaces reveal themselves gradually with the thrill of discovery, where natural light draws changing scenarios in constant relationship with the surrounding landscape. The wall-fence-path is configured accordingly, not as antagonistic to the landscape, but wants to integrate with the surrounding environment through a dialogue of materials and transparencies.

Toti Semerano, Atelier Bagnoli, Montelupo Fiorentino, Italy, 2016

It is a botanic architecture that will follow the reed degradation cycle, which mixed with the local land covers its surface, ideal support for the growth of vegetation that gradually will replace it. The architecture willingly renounces to remain immutable in time but always gives more space to the vegetation, on the contrary, adjusts itself to be invaded. The project for its vocation pays great attention to the materials and the use of sustainability criteria, in particular has been designed to use wood for supporting structures and a part of the external cladding. Stone, natural fibers, lime and clay to the other external coatings.

Toti Semerano, Atelier Bagnoli, Montelupo Fiorentino, Italy, 2016 — Toti Semerano, Atelier Bagnoli, Montelupo Fiorentino, Italy, 2016. Photo Mario Lensi

Atelier Bagnoli, Montelupo Fiorentino, Italy
Program: atelier and art centre
Architect: Toti Semerano
Project team: Stefano Zanardi, Ludovica Fava, Salvatore Musarò, Stefano Sabato, Iride Filoni, Stefano Antonello, Andrea Piscopo, Gunar Thom
Construction supervision: Luciano Scali
Structural engineering: Antonangelo Schipani
Installation: Giovanni Barbieri
Area: 2,000 sqm
Completion: 2016

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