PiM.studio Architects Portfolio

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PiM.studio Architects Portfolio
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PiM.studio Architects
Maurizio Mucciola, RIBA, RIAS
Director
E-mail:
tel.:
[email protected]
+44 7435 664057
CURRICULUM VITAE
Maurizio is a Chartered Architect registered at the Architects Registration Board in UK
and a member of the Royal Institue of British Architects and the Royal Incorporation of Architets in Scotland
2016:
Founded PiM.studio Architects Limited in London
Projects:
V&A Museum of Design Dundee, Scotland UK
due to open 2018 (under construction)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Previous Professional Experiences:
2009 – 2016: Kengo Kuma & Associates - Tokyo, Edinburgh, Paris
Projects in charge as Project Architect and Project Manager
V&A Museum of Design Dundee, Scotland UK
Progetto Manifattura Green Innovation Factory, Rovereto, Italy
The Sky is The Limit - Vals CH
ArtA Cultural Complex - Arnhem NL
V&A at Dundee, the new V&A Museum in Scotland - UK
Requalification of Fez Medina – Morocco
Columbia University Medical Center Campus - New York - USA
“Sant’Agostino” building complex - Modena - Italy
New Headquarters of Parma Province - Parma, Italy
Alibaba Group – City of Taobao Headquarter, Hangzhou - China
Munch Stenersen Museum, Oslo - Norway
2007 – 2008:
2010 - 2017 (under construction)
2009 - 2018 (construction starts 2016)
2015
2014
2010 (International competition) 1st Prize
2010
2009
2009
2009
2009 (built)
2009
OMA Office for Metropolitan Architecture | Rotterdam - NL
Projects:
Apraksin Dvor Market, St. Petersburg - Russia
Signal Tower International competition, Paris - France
La Defense urban study, Paris - France
Entrepot Macdonald reconversion” transformation of a warehouse in Paris, France
Bovisa Mastrerplan, Milano - Italy
2007
2005 – 2006
2005
C-Lab with Jeffrey Inaba, at Columbia Studio-X - Volume Magazine, New York
LANDsrl landscape architecture - Milan
METROGRAMMAassociati architecture - Milan
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2007 Master of Science Advanced Architectural Design - GSAPP - Columbia University, NY
2004 Master Degree in Architecture -”Politecnico di Milano” Milan - Italy
2003 Socrates-Erasmus scholarship - “UTL Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa” Lisbon Portugal
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Publications:
2015
Editor - monograph.it - a new monograph on Kengo Kuma & Associates
2013
Photographs for the exhibition catalogue - Sensing Spaces - Royal Academy of Arts - London
2011
L’Arca International Magazine – co-editor for KKAA for the issue 265 January 2011
2010
Photographs for the book: Architect: The Mind and Work of the Pritzker Prize Laureates,
2009-11
TABlog: TAB is Tokyo’s bilingual art & design events guide.
2006-7
with C-lab: “Volume 10: Agitation!” - “Volume 13: Ambition!”
2007
GSAPP Abstract 2006-2007, GSAPP Columbia University, NY
PiM.studio Architects
Maria-Chiara Piccinelli
E-mail: [email protected]
tel.:
+44 7435 664057
tel.:
CURRICULUM VITAE
Maria-Chiara is a registered Architect in Italy since 2005
Member of the Ordine degli Architetti Pianificatori Paesaggisti Conservatori della Provincia di Como
2016:
PiM.studio Architects Limited
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Previous Professional Experiences:
2009 – 2016: Kengo Kuma & Associates - Tokyo, Edinburgh, Paris
Projects in charge as Project Architect and Project Manager
Padova Congress Centre ,Italy
Lodi Veterinary University Campus ,Italy
The Sky is The Limit - Vals CH - International competition
Van Gogh exhibition, Palazzo Reale, Milano, Italy
Boulogne-Billancourt housing, Paris, FR
V&A Museum of Design Dundee, Scotland UK
Progetto Manifattura Green Innovation Factory, Rovereto, Italy
ArtA Cultural Complex - Arnhem NL - International Competition
Terme, San Pellegrino, Italy - concept design, SD phase
Shangai Gallery of Art -Air Brick, China - Exhibition/pavilion, built
CCC Courtyard, Salone del Mobile Milan, Italy - Exhibition, built
Masterplan Wanjing - Beijing, China - concept design
Exhibition Tokyo Fiber - Milano, Tokyo, - Pavilion, built
Cavamarket headquarter, Napoli, Italy - DD phase
2007 – 2008:
2012 - 2017 (under construction)
2014 - 2017 (under construction)
2015
2015 built
2013 - 2017 (under construction)
2010 - 2017 (under construction)
2009-2018 (construction starts 2016)
2014
2011 - 2010
2010
2010
2009
2009
2009
OMA Office for Metropolitan Architecture | Rotterdam - NL
Projects:
Maggie Centre -Glasgow - UK (built)
Qatar Central Library, Doha - Qatar
Bovisa mastrerplan, Milano - Italy
2007
2006
2006
2005
Studio Fase, Milano, Italy
Municipality of Milano planning department - public housing program - Milano
Makio Hasuike & co design - Milano, Italy
Consalez e Rossi architettura e paesaggio - Milano, Italy
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Education:
2006 Researcher at Politecnico di Milano DIAP (architectural and urban design department)
2005 Master Degree in Architecture - Politecnico di Milano - Italy, degree project: “metropoli vesuvio” (grade 100/100)
2003 socrates erasmus scholarship at UTL - Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Portugal
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2011
L’Arca International Magazine – co-editor for KKAA for the issue 265 January 2011
2007
Milano. cronache dell’abitare - with multiplicity.lab - Bruno Mondadori, Milano
2005
Bovisa in una goccia - New balances for a changing neighborhood, Polipress, Milano
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2009
2x5 contest, public design festival, first prize - Milano built
PRO J EC TS
MA STER PL ANS
Bovisa Master Plan
Milan, Italy
2007
Design:
OMA/Rem Koolhaas
Maria-Chiara Piccinelli and Maurizio Mucciola were part of the project Design team whilst at OMA
Project data
Program:
Office, Rensidential, Education, Library, Retail, Services
Floor Area: 675,000 m2
With the rapid growth and expansion of urban centres in the latter half of the 20th century, industrial sites, formerly located on the city’s
periphery, now find themselves encompassed by the ever expanding urban fabric of the city. Paralleling this growth has been a shift in the main
economic drivers of the city from industrial production to service industries. Consequently, what were once vital elements of the city have gone
fallow.
Milan, once the center of Italy’s industrial region, is today Italy’s leading financial center and a global center for fashion and design. Currently experiencing a boom of urban redevelopment, the city’s post-industrial urban voids now provide exceptional opportunities for ambitious architectural
and urban innovation.
Bovisa, originally located on the outskirts of Milan, initially benefited from a strong network of railway lines connecting it to the city and
beyond. Paradoxically, the conditions that once allowed it to flourish now isolate it from the rest of the city and hamper its development. Separated
from the surrounding neighborhoods, the site suffers from a surfeit of infrastructure.
Further impeding the site’s development, the ground is heavily contaminated – a lasting burden of the site’s industrial history. In order to
become suitable for development, the site requires intensive remediation.
In recent years, numerous masterplans and attempts to redevelop the site have been proposed with no results. Unable to overcome the
site’s many constraints, Bovisa has languished undeveloped, disconnected from the thriving areas surrounding it, a void in the urban fabric of Milan.
A site of conflicting potential – an open expanse of underutilized land, advantageously situated within Milan’s expanding urban boundaries
yet constrained by infrastructure and industrial pollution. How to overcome the site’s many limitations and capitalize on the opportunities it affords,
integrating it into both Milan’s urban fabric and economy?
Images and text © OMA
Manifattura Project, Green Innovation Factory
Rovereto, Italy
2010-2018 (contruction to start 2017)
Design:
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Maria-Chiara Piccinelli and Maurizio Mucciola were Project Architects and Team Leaders whilst at KKAA
Project data
Program:
Manufacturing, Offices, Research labs, Auditorium, Gym, Learning Center,
Greenhouse, Public Roof Garden, Café Shop, Café, Restaurant
Floor Area: 50,000 m2
Progetto Manifattura – Green Innovation Factory is transforming a 9-hectare (22-acre) historic tobacco facility into a business, innovation and research hub for green building, renewable energy, and environmental technology.
Manifattura is located at a key point in the valley, where the Leno River practically flows into the Adige River, and is clearly visible from all the mountains that surround the area. The perception of the Manifattura from the mountains, a point of view from top to bottom , is the most typical, and it represent
therefore the way the buildings is normally perceived, which is a most important to take into consideration. Generally, when people think about the idea of a
“Landmark”, an object that marks the territory by being visible from afar, it is common to think of a vertical element. This is a necessary strategy when we are
in a “flatland”. Where flat and horizontal directions prevail, something willing to be visible must be higher than the rest, and verticality creates this strength.
In this project instead, exactly the opposite happens: the perception is that of a point of view from top to bottom. Here a vertical mark would have
no power and would get little visibility. The planar direction becomes the most powerful sign in this complex condition, and therefore the possibility of creating
a new type of sign: a Horizontal Landmark, site specific and which merges into the landscape and at the same time becomes visible in all its strength from
the surroundings.
Images and text © Kengo Kuma & Associates
Apraksin Dvor
St. Petersburg, Russia
2007 - Competition
Design:
OMA/Rem Koolhaas
Maurizio Mucciola was part of the project Design Team whilst at OMA
Project data
Program:
Office, Rensidential, Hotel, Museum, Retail, Services
Floor Area: 228,404 m2
Consisting of multiple freestanding buildings arranged within a market yard, Apraksin Dvor represents a unique urban typology in the historic centre of St. Petersburg. The uniqueness of the site, which makes it prime for preservation, is also the most advantageous aspect for development.
What future can be imagined for this area? Is it possible to resist the default treatment of inner city areas: to avoid an uncompromising regime of
preservation – no room for maneuvering in the name of authenticity – without surrendering to the forces of commercial exploitation?
The premise of this project requires a negotiation between the desire for historic preservation and the drive towards commercial development. In
the face of this dilemma, rather than siding either way, we call it a draw and split the difference. In our proposal, 50 per cent of the area is demolished and treated as the site for new buildings, and 50 per cent of the area is kept in its current state; including its use as a flea market. The old
and the new are organized as a checkerboard: a co-existence of two uninterrupted conditions, creating both a relationship of maximum contact
and maximum independence while avoiding the subjective evaluation of the historic merit of each existing individual building.
Where the old retains its utilitarian organization and orthogonal pattern of circulation, the new is organized into a condition of ultimate smoothness.
A series of never-ending loops lure people in and – once inside – retain them in a constant flow. Stretched across the entire site, the old and the
new can either be experienced in extreme juxtaposition or be independent parallel experiences, creating simultaneously an illusion of complete
preservation and perpetual newness…
Images and text © OMA
Taobao City
Hangzhou, China
2009-2013 built
Design:
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Maurizio Mucciola was part of the project Design Team whilst at KKAA
Project data
Funtions:
Floor Area:
Office (canteen, gymnasium, auditorium, exhibition hall)
260,000 m2
Taobao City is the headquarters of Alibaba.com, now a leading IT corporation of China. Given the wetland location in the suburb of Hangzhou, we proposed a new type of office for this up-and-coming company by scattering low-rise buildings in layered floors, from which workers can be directly connected to their surrounding landscape.
The office block comprises two simple, flexibly arranged plates (approximate depth: 20m, length: 100m) in parallel, on either side of a green court yard.
Such open, green atmosphere is rarely available in other typical city center offices.
The basic openings are glazing, but it has a detailed “bumpiness,” since we treated the façade as a set of folds. One part of the folds (depth: 300mm)
can be opened in order to bring in fresh air.
The six dispersed offices are loosely connected with bridge-like spaces called “links”. Those links contain a sports hall, library, meeting spaces and other
rooms, which can cater to workers’ various activities away from their desks. The total length of these bridges covers over 1km. The façades of the links are
woven aluminum mesh. It is a 2m-deep eave that can harmonize with surrounding nature – a contrast against solid, box-typed offices of the 20th century.
Images and text © Kengo Kuma & Associates
PRO J EC TS
L arg e Scal e A RCH I TECT URE
V&A Museum of Design, Dundee
Dundee, Scotland, UK
in construciton, completion 2017
Lead Architect:
Delivery Architect:
Kengo Kuma & Associates (Maurizio Mucciola Project Architect 2010-2015)
PiM.studio Architects
Maurizio Mucciola has been Project Architect/Team Leader from Competition and until 2015 whilst at KKAA
PiM.studio has been appointed in 2016 to complete the delivery of the Project
Project data
Program:
Museum, Restaurant, Auditorium, Shop, Ofices, Delivery and Services.
Floor Area: 8,500 m2
Value:
£80,000,000
Located along the waterfront in the city of Dundee in the northern part of Scotland, this museum is a branch of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
In addition to exhibits of artwork in the V&A collection, contemporary Scottish art and product design from the area are on display, making it a facility that
is expected to become a new cultural centre in Scotland.
The site faces the River Tay, and the architecture proposes a new integrated way to achieve harmony with the environment. The façade has a variety of
shadows and changes created with multiple horizontal layers of precast concrete as a way to express the beautiful cliffs of Scotland with architecture.
A large horizontal “hole” was provided in the centre of the building. This “hole” represents an attempt to connect Union Street which runs through the
centre of Dundee with the beautiful natural scenery of the River Tay. This feature was adopted in order to create a 21st century type cultural facility that is
an integral part of the environment and community which replaces 20th century type art museums that were cut off from the environment.
The foyer was designed as a large void that is covered with locally available wood that has a soft texture with the intention that it be used as a “Living
Room” capable of revitalizing the community by providing a venue where various concerts and performances are held.
Veterinary University Buildings
Lodi, Italy
2014 - under construction
Design:
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Maria-Chiara Piccinelli was Project Architect/Team Leader for the project whilst at KKAA
Project data
Program:
University, Classrooms, Offices, Canteen, Park
Floor Area: 26,000 m2
Value
62,000,000 EUR
Importo complessivo: 62.600.000 euro, di cui 57.300.000 euro cofinanziati da Università (per una quota di 34.380.000 euro), Regione Lombardia
(12.570.000 euro), Provincia (5.175.000 euro) e Comune di Lodi (5.175.000 euro), più 5.300.000 euro a carico esclusivamente dell’Università per
il completamento del Centro Zootecnico Didattico Sperimentale.
Le strutture di nuova realizzazione per il completamento del polo universitario occuperanno una superficie coperta di circa 26.000 metri quadrati,
così suddivisa: 13.000 metri quadrati per le strutture delle attività dipartimentali della Facoltà di Veterinaria (studi docenti, laboratori di ricerca e locali
di supporto); 7.300 metri quadrati per aule didattiche, biblioteca e servizi generali della Facoltà di Veterinaria; 2.100 metri quadrati per laboratori
didattici (chimica, biologia, microscopia, informatica); 1.800 metri quadrati per la clinica veterinaria per piccoli animali (che in totale avrà una superficie di 2.450 metri quadrati, integrando ai nuovi volumi 650 metri quadrati già esistenti); 1.200 metri quadrati per il completamento del Centro
Zootecnico Didattico Sperimentale (laboratori di bioingegneria, mangimificio, lavorazione carni, lavorazione latte, analisi sensoriale) e della clinica
veterinaria per grandi animali (reparto sale settorie e laboratorio di osteologia).
Le strutture universitarie già attualmente realizzate a Lodi occupano una superficie coperta di circa 16.000 metri quadrati (circa 11.000 la clinica
veterinaria per grandi animali, circa 5.000 il centro zootecnico didattico sperimentale).
Images and text © Kengo Kuma & Associates
Congress Centre
Padova, Italy
2012-2017 (in construciton)
Design:
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Maria-Chiara Piccinelli was Project Architect/Team Leader for the project whilst at KKAA
Project data
Program:
Congress Centre, Auditorium, Restaurant, VIP room, Services.
Floor Area: 30,000 m2
Value:
19,000,000 EUR
Il PalaCongressi ha una Sala Grande da 828 posti al primo piano, 396 al secondo, 396 al terzo, e un foyer di 408 metri quadri. E ancora una Sala
Auditorium di 533 metri quadri, altre due Sale Medie da 222 e 210 posti, e una serie di salette multifunzionali che occupano circa 300 metri quadri.
E ancora: un ristorante da 233 metri quadri, un bar di 201 e un bistrot di 180.
Utilizzo flessibile. Ispirato dall’architettura tradizionale giapponese in cui lo spazio è un elemento estremamente duttile, Kuma ha voluto che il Centro
congressi possa essere utilizzato sia quando la fiera è aperta che quando è chiusa.
La galleria ingresso nord. Nel centro congressi ci sarà una galleria che costituirà l’ingresso nord del quartiere fieristico. Ma sarà anche una sorta di
grande piazza coperta, in cui confluiscono tutte le funzioni dell’edificio compresi i negozio e l’accesso indipendente a ogni sala.
Il porticato. L’edificio sarà caratterizzato da una parte porticata, che vuole riprendere una tradizione architettonica della città di Padova. L’architetto
giapponese ha previsto dei grandi «setti» di facciata che faranno da ambiente di separazione tra l’interno del centro congressi e la piazza esterna.
L’acqua e l’anfiteatro. All’esterno Kengo Kuma ha previsto la presenza di un «segno d’acqua», richiamo alla conformità del territorio padovano, e di
un anfiteatro, uno spazio pubblico per manifestazioni all’aperto.
Images and text © Kengo Kuma & Associates
Luxury SPA complex
Sanpellegrino terme, Italy
2009-2012
Design:
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Maria-Chiara Piccinelli was Project Architect/Team Leader for the project whilst at KKAA
Project data
Program:
SPA, residential, retail.
Floor Area: 25,000 m2
The project is located in the centre of a small historical thermal city in north of Italy.
We had to create a new modern SPA building on the hill and a shopping mall in a beautiful listed building, in addition to luxury residences for the
SPA visitors.
We opened the old building to create a connection to the city old centre and create a delicate canopy in the plaza by the use of recycled glass tiles.
Through the use of materials we have create a ribbon link with the residences and ultimately with the new SPA building where the use of glass,
local stone and green in the facade creates a gentle, elegant screen to the outside and an intimate environment tothe inside to give a unique
experience to the visitors.
Images and text © Kengo Kuma & Associates
Cava Market headquarters
Cava de’ tirreni, Italy
2009
Design:
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Maria-Chiara Piccinelli was part of the Design Team for the project whilst at KKAA
Project data
Program: Office, Retail, Services
Floor Area: 11,500 m2
Images and text © Kengo Kuma & Associates
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Entrepot MacDonald
Paris, France
2008 Masterplan (now built)
Design:
OMA/Rem Koolhaas
Maurizio Mucciola was part of the Design Team for the project whilst at OMA
Project data
Program:
Schools, Retail, Office, Residential, Services
Floor Area: 165,100 m2
Images and text © OMA
Signal Tower
Paris, France
2008 Competition
Design:
OMA/Rem Koolhaas
Maurizio Mucciola was part of the Design Team for the project whilst at OMA
Project data
Program:
Schools, Retail, Office, Residential
Floor Area: 165,100 m2
Integration
The urban oppositional logics implemented in the selected site have fragmented the space in built areas that are surrounded by nonpermeable infrastructural borders.
The brief by l’Etablissement Public d’Aménagement de La Défense (EPAD) to make its previously impenetrable limits accessible, to organize the site
into urban space in a hierarchy of a succession of lines and squares, highlighted the need to consider and qualify an area of fringe, an outcome
which previously had not been the subject of the project.
By adding a critical mass of public programs organized as a network, closely connected to the existing program, Signal project seeks to
consolidate the immediate vicinity and access to the slab as an audience.
In the growing competition among Europe’s financial centers, La Défense can differentiate itself by changing its logical communication. From a vertical reference, the clarity and quality of the limit of its greatest asset and its greatest potential: the horizontal support of the deck can be highlighted.
The position and nature of the adaptation of a project to its site profoundly influences the surrounding environment. The OMA Signal
Project is working to this challenge by establishing a horizontal and multifunctional base that simultaneously expands the existing slab, reconsiders
the status of South Gate, and most importantly creates a connection between all elements of its environment.
Facade
One of the most innovative aspects of the Signal Project is its original design of the facade and internal energy systems. Every piece aims
for maximum optimization of energy by the use of passive systems using natural light and air force as natural sources of energy. The project also
uses the principle of reuse & recycling to minimize the energy required for the functioning of the whole. The result is a significant saving of 40-45%
on the average energy consumption.
Images and text © OMA
Columbia University Medical Campus
New York
2010 Competition
Design:
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Maurizio Mucciola was Project Architect/Team Leader for the project whilst at KKAA
Project data
Program:
Office, Rensidential, Hotel, Theate, Retail, Services
The project aimed at the revitalization of the medical Campus.
two separate buildings were to be designed and the public space connecting them.
A new tower for classrooms, offices, laboratories, canteen and auditorium, and two blocks south from the main tower the complete refurbishment
of the existing main auditorium woudl give a first class Lecture teatre tot he medical Scool connceted directely to the street.
Images and text © Kengo Kuma & Associates
The Sky is the Limit
Vals, Switzerland
2015 competition
Design:
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Maria-Chiara Piccinelli and Maurizio Mucciola were Project Architects and Team Leaders whilst at KKAA
Project data
Program:
5 start Hotel, Restaurants, Retail, SPA
Floor Area: 53,000 m2
Images and text © Kengo Kuma & Associates
PRO J EC TS
Sm al l A RCH I TECTURE
Maggie’s Centre - Gartnavel
Glasgow, Scotland
2008 built
Design:
OMA/Rem Koolhaas
Maria-Chiara Piccinelli was part of the Design Team for the project whilst at OMA
Project data
Program:
Consultation Centre
Floor Area: 534 m2
The aim of a Maggie’s Centre is to provide an environment of practical and emotional support for people with cancer, their families and friends.
Maggie’s Centres rely on the fundamental precept, often overlooked, that exceptional architecture and innovative spaces can make people feel
better - thereby kindling the curiosity and imagination fundamental to feeling alive. Grand in their ambitions, but designed on a small scale, Maggie’s Centres provide a welcome respite from typical institutional hospital architecture. Their spaces are more than merely functional; they serve
as a haven for those receiving treatment. In creating a place to connect and learn from others who are going through similar experiences, Maggie’s Centres help patients to develop their sense of confidence and resourcefulness.
Instead of a series isolated rooms, the building is designed as a sequence of interconnected L-shaped figures in plan that create clearly distinguished areas - an arrangement that minimises the need for corridors and hallways and allows the rooms to flow. The plan has been organized
for the spaces to feel casual, almost carefree, allowing one to feel at ease and at home, part of an empathetic community of people. At the
same time the design also provides spaces for more personal moments - either in the intimate setting of the counselling rooms, or in smaller
nooks and private spaces.
Located in a natural setting, like a pavilion in the woods, the building is both introverted and extroverted: each space has a relationship either to
the internal courtyard or to the surrounding woodland and greenery, while certain moments provide views of Glasgow beyond. With a flat roof
and floor levels that respond to the natural topography, the rooms vary in height, with the more intimate areas programmed for private uses such
as counselling, and more open and spacious zones for communal use. More than any other space, the internal courtyard provides a place of
sanctuary and respite
Images and text © OMA
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Counseling
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Library
Office
Dining
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Kitchen
Van Gogh exhibition
Milano, Italy
2015 built
Design:
Kengo Kuma & Associates
Maria-Chiara Piccinelli was Project Architect/Team Leader for the project whilst at KKAA
Project data
Program: Exhibition
Floor Area: 720 m2
Location: Palazzo Reale, Milano
Into Palazzo Reale, we wanted to bring in some way or other the undulating earth that Van Gogh much loved. We sought hard about how we
could convey to people that tenderness and warmth, and finally arrived at a piece of cloth – that material of earth-colored, a bit rough feel, with a
smell of soil when you press your cheek against it.
On that waving land of fabric, Gogh’s paintings will drift about. His works will be thrown out in the midst of the overwhelming power from the
ground. Humans themselves are the beings who have to leave everything to the earth and simply float on – I took Van Gogh’s message this way.
Images and text © Kengo Kuma & Associates
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