
A house turns its back on the road to open up to the landscape
The single-family house project designed by Elena Gianesini engages in a dialogue with the Vicenza landscape, combining tranquility and contemporary style through essential geometries and the Mazzonetto metal roofing.
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The architecture that hosts a facility of this kind should be diverse and pluricentric in order to support a wide variety of users and foreseen activities, but it must also have the ability to strengthen and harmonise the relationship between organisations and users.
The architectural project begins with the definition of a foundation core, an agora able to attract and articulate around all areas defined in the functional programme, a place where all users can identify themselves as belonging to it.















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El Roure Community Centre and La Ginesta Library, Begues, Baix Llobregat, Barcelona
Program: community centre, theatre, library
Architects: Calderon-Folch-Sarsanedas Arquitectes
Collaborators: Ignasi Arbeloa, Joan Vilanova, Marc Sanabra, Anoche Iluminación Arquitectónica, Eliseu Guillamon, Zoe Sarsanedas y María Retamero
Client: Town Hall of Begues
Area: 1.325,09 sqm (community centre), 804,95 sqm (theatre), 1.267,93 sqm (library), 1.928 sqm (outdoor space)
Budget: 5.450.980,22 € + IVA
Completion: 2014

Do you know how a food disposer works?
60% of American kitchens have one, and food waste disposers are becoming increasingly popular in Italy as well. But what exactly are they, and how do they work?
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