Renewal-Zone：对70年代旧建筑的围合与留白︱离地而起的革新住宅
• 项目源于对一栋20世纪70年代旧住宅的改造，位于意大利北部都灵省坎比亚诺的一座开阔的私家公园中，是ELASTICOFarm为一位年轻主厨所设计的房屋。
• 构成房屋的新体量部分依托在原建筑之上，并高于原建筑。各个房间如同林中树梢，从地面攀出，并围合在中央空间周围，增强了离地的漂浮感。
• 通过这个项目，建筑师Stefano Pujatti领衔的工作室再一次展示了以创新和实验手法处理建筑专题的能力。
依附于既有建筑，一座房屋从地面腾空而起，并与之形成对应。建筑盒子被拆分成不同的组成部分，中央则留空作为焦点平衡整座建筑。设计发掘出建筑与周围景观间令人惊喜的联系，将其与开放的氛围和广阔的天空融为一体。
这并非Stefano Pujatti及ELASTICOFarm首次挑战既存状况。他们的作品常与城郊（尤其是意大利）无数不知名的平凡建筑形成鲜明对比。作为原创和打破成规的成果而非文化冲突的产物，Pujatti的创作昂然矗立在其他建筑之前，秉持着拒绝平庸的原则，勇于探寻创新的建造方法和独特的空间布局。
Stefano Pujatti的早期创作便一直展现出处理问题的创新力，包括2008年基耶里Atelier Fleuriste项目、2012年Piancavallo的1301iNN酒店以及2021年的住宅建筑项目Le bâtiment descendant l'escalier。他的建筑探索拒绝标准和学术惯例，不断付诸于突破，挑战了当代建筑文化中的主流趋势。
这次在都灵省坎比亚诺的项目中，Pujatti延续了非常规的创作原则，将与既有建筑的互动为主题，以此为契机探索战后建筑遗产作为新的开发类型和创新生活方式的载体的潜能。Pujatti并未选择扩建这座上世纪70年代的别墅，而是以此为基础构想了一座完全独立的新建筑，并通过拆除原建筑的屋顶为新的住宅营造出一片露台。
新住宅与旧建筑共用同一个地块，并采取独特的策略创造不同于以往的生活空间，呈现出一直延伸到阿尔卑斯山脉的更广阔的全景视野。在晴朗的日子里，壮丽的山景清晰可见。这座房子渴望触及天空，将其引入其中。设计巧妙地以一个空旷庭院来实现这一目标，这一中心空间不易进入却连接起所有的空间，从而扩大了居家领域。
建筑自地面腾起，一直延伸到树冠的高度。不同体量围绕着中央庭院的组合形式，让天空渗透到其中。这些体量对应不同的居住空间和内部功能，并通过环绕庭院的连续通道相互连接，在居住空间和空庭之间建立联系，激发出与地面脱离的漂浮感。
镀锌钢预制而成的结构主要由高叉形金属柱承重，对原建筑的混凝土结构带来的负重极小。外墙和内墙均采用干法建造。聚氨酯喷涂保温材料极大地提升了建筑的能源效率。
从公园中穿过树林可直接进入建筑。开放的金属悬梯也成为了一个独特的存在，拾阶而上，走向住宅区的同时，风景也在不断变化中展开一段迷人的旅程。植被环绕并伸入建筑物，甚至改变了室内空间。进入建筑，郁郁葱葱的庭院首先映入眼帘，三棵高耸的白桦树向天空延伸。右侧数步便可到达起居区，并与餐厅无缝相衔接。这里与露台直接相连，并通向既有建筑上方的屋顶花园。从餐厅向上数步，便到达了位于东北角的厨房。在这里，从个人和职业角度都热衷烹饪的业主可以俯瞰房屋的其他区域，露台和屋顶花园也在视线可见范围之内。从餐厅沿逆时针方向环绕庭院，将先后到达服务区和就寝区。最终，位于房子西侧的卧室与入口区域重新相连。
房子的内墙被涂成深浅不一的绿色，与树冠形成了理想的连接。整个建筑覆以波纹铝板，反射出周围不断变化的环境，并进行了抽象和扭曲。
刻意的扭曲成为了定义这座建筑的基础。ELASTICOFarm的项目与既有建筑严谨互动，轻柔地调整并尽可能地保留其特征。通过融入这种先在性，Stefano Pujatti不加评判，而是利用既有建筑构建出一种辩证关系，并基于实际经验将深入的领悟展现在项目图纸中。新房子的平面图与原建筑形成了鲜明对比，虽然以类似的环中央分布布局，但Pujatti设计的新房子充满了活力和开阔感，围绕中央空间重新组织，并确立了稳定性和即刻的平衡。
ELASTICOFarm建筑及产品设计事务所由Stefano Pujatti、Alberto Del Maschio和Sara dal Gallo创立于2005年，总部位于基耶里和波代诺内（意大利）以及多伦多（加拿大）。
Stefano Pujatti在2014年至2016年间担任了多伦多大学的客座教授，2005年至2014年担任都灵理工大学建筑学院的客座教授，他还受邀在墨尔本皇家理工大学、东京法政大学、门德里西奥建筑学院、威尼斯建筑大型在内的众多大学机构进行演讲。
在建筑领域，ELASTICOFarm致力于探索自然的力量和元素间的关系，及其对人类和建筑环境的影响。每个新的项目都是他们研究和探索材料、技术和几何的机会，事务所的建筑和产品创作在国内外的展览、奖项和出版中赢得了重要认可，其中包括威尼斯建筑双年展（2006、2010、2014、2021年）、多伦多意大利文化学院的专题展览“Form Matters”（2015年）和in/arch-ANCE奖（2006年）。
ELASTICOFarm曾入围2013年密斯·凡德罗奖总决选，并于2019年凭借Stoned获得提名，2022年则有两个项目获得提名：《Le bâtiment descendant l’escalier》和《纸牌屋》。在产品设计领域，2019年ELASTICOFarm荣获了红点奖、LF设计奖、绿色设计奖的最高荣誉。
2023年7月，ELASTICOFarm荣获由米兰三年展和MAXXI发起的Premio italiano di architettura（意大利建筑奖）。
事务所的专著图书《Architettura al sangue》于2008年出版。2019年，ELASTICOFarm担任了IQD杂志《我不知道》这一期的特约编辑。
ELASTICOFarm受邀在第17届威尼斯双年展国际建筑展的意大利馆中展出了新 Weengushk电影学院项目的预展。该机构将建于位于加拿大安大略省休伦湖的马尼图林岛沿岸。
• “The Hole with the House Around” is the house designed by ELASTICOFarm for a young chef. The project originated from the renovation of a residential building from the 1970s, located within a spacious private park in Cambiano, in the province of Turin, in Northern Italy.
• The volumes that make up the house rise above the original building, partially leaning on it. The rooms of the house, like treetops in a forest, are elevated from the ground and cluster around a central void, enhancing the sensation of vertigo and detachment from the ground.
• With this project, the studio led by architect Stefano Pujatti once again demonstrates its ability to approach architectural themes in an innovative and experimental manner.
The house disengages from the earth, ascends, and relies on a pre-existing structure on which it ultimately leans, becoming its rebellious counterpart. In "The Hole with the House Around," the architectural box disassembles into a series of distinct elements, while a central void emerges, serving as the focal point around which the architecture achieves its balance. An unanticipated connection with the surrounding landscape is revealed, the house embracing the openness of the atmosphere and the expanse of the sky.
This is not the first time that Stefano Pujatti and ELASTICOFarm embark on a project that challenges the status quo. Their work often emerges in stark contrast to the countless faceless and unremarkable structures that dominate the outskirts of cities, especially in Italy. Pujatti's creations stand proudly before these buildings, not as warriors in a cultural conflict, but as champions of originality and nonconformity. They uphold the right to refuse banality and embrace the quest for innovative construction methods and distinctive spatial arrangements.
Stefano Pujatti has consistently demonstrated his ability to approach themes and issues in an innovative manner since his early projects, such as the Atelier Fleuriste in Chieri in 2008, the Hotel 1301iNN in Piancavallo in 2012, and his most recent residential building, Le bâtiment descendant l'escalier in Jesolo in 2021. His architectural exploration, which defies norms and rejects academic conventions, is characterized by an ongoing commitment to experimentation. It challenges prevailing trends within contemporary architectural culture.
Here in Cambiano, in the province of Turin, Pujatti adheres to unconventional principles and approaches the theme of engaging with existing structures as an opportunity to reflect on the potential of post-war built heritage as a platform for the development of new typologies and innovative ways of living. Rather than expanding the original house - a villa built in the 1970s - Pujatti envisions a completely independent new building. The demolition of the existing roof results in the creation of a terrace for the new residential unit.
While occupying the same plot of land, the new residence embarks on its unique strategy to create alternative living conditions and establish a more expansive panorama that stretches towards the awe-inspiring Alpine range, visible on the clearest days. The house, aspiring to reach for the sky, ascends to bring the heavens within its architecture. It achieves this by ingeniously inventing an empty courtyard - a core that, though inaccessible, connects all the spaces, thus expanding the domestic realm.
The Hole with the House Around detaches itself from the ground and rises to the height of the tree canopies, taking the form of an assemblage of various volumes around a central courtyard, allowing the sky to permeate the heart of the house. These volumes correspond to the rooms and internal functions of the dwelling, interconnected by a continuous pathway that envelops the courtyard, creating a relationship between inhabited spaces and the void, evoking a sense of vertigo induced by the separation from the ground.
The structure is prefabricated in galvanized steel and rests primarily on tall forked metal pillars, with minimal reliance on the original concrete structure of the house. Both the exterior cladding and interior walls have been constructed using dry methods. The application of polyurethane spray insulation significantly contributes to the building's high energy efficiency.
The house is accessed directly from the park, weaving through the trees. Even the suspended and open metal staircase forms a distinct entity. As one ascends, a constantly shifting landscape unfolds, leading to the level of the residence, creating a captivating journey. The vegetation permeates and envelops the building, transforming even the interior space. Upon entering, one immediately glimpses the courtyard, radiant and lush with greenery. Here, three birch trees soar, reaching for the light. To the right, a few steps lead to the living area, which seamlessly expands into the dining room. This space is directly connected to a terrace, providing access to the rooftop garden created on the existing building's roof. Ascending a few more steps from the dining room, one reaches the kitchen, strategically positioned in the northeast corner. From here, the owner, passionate about cooking both personally and professionally, oversees the rest of the house and maintains visual contact with both the terrace and the rooftop garden. Continuing counterclockwise around the courtyard from the dining room, a pathway leads to the service areas and subsequently to the sleeping quarters. The bedrooms are situated along the west side of the house, eventually reconnecting with the entrance area.
The interior walls of the house were painted in various shades of green, creating an ideal connection with the tree canopies. The entire building is clad in corrugated aluminum sheeting, reflecting the everchanging surroundings while simultaneously distorting and abstracting them.
The deliberate distortion is fundamental in defining The Hole with the House Around. ELASTICOFarm's project conscientiously interacts with the original building, carefully altering it while preserving its identity as much as possible. By incorporating this preexistence, Stefano Pujatti does not comment on it but rather utilizes and engages it in a dialectical relationship that becomes fully understood through physical experience and becomes evident in the project's drawings. The floor plan of the new house stands in contrast to the original. While it shares a similar arrangement of spaces surrounding a central distribution, Pujatti's design for the new house is dynamic and expansive, reorganizing itself around the central void, where it finds its stability and a provisional equilibrium.
ELASTICOFarm is an architecture and product design studio founded by Stefano Pujatti, Alberto Del Maschio and Sara dal Gallo in 2005, based in Chieri and Pordenone (Italy) and Toronto (Canada).
Stefano Pujatti was visiting professor at the University of Toronto from 2014 to 2016, at the Faculty of Architecture of the Politecnico di Torino from 2005 to 2014 and has been invited as a speaker at numerous university institutions including RMIT in Melbourne, Hosei University in Tokyo, Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio, IUAV Venice.
In architecture, ELASTICOFarm's research focuses on the relationship between the forces and elements of nature, their impact on man and the built environment. Every new project is an opportunity to study and experiment with materials, technology and geometry. Their buildings and products have won important acknowledgements at national and international exhibitions, awards and publications. These include the Venice Architecture Biennale (2006, 2010, 2014, 2021), the monographic exhibition "Form Matters" at the Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto (2015), the in/arch-ANCE award (2006). ELASTICOFarm was a finalist at the Mies van der Rohe Award in 2013 and nominated in 2019 with Stoned and in 2022 with two projects: Le bâtiment descendant l'escalier and Houses of cards. In the field of product design in 2019 ELASTICOFarm won first prize at the RED DOT Award, the LF design Award and the Green Design Award.
In July 2023 ELASTICOFarm was awarded the Premio italiano di architettura (Italian Architecture Prize), promoted by the Triennale di Milano and MAXXI.
The monograph "Architettura al sangue" was published in 2008. In 2019 ELASTICOFarm was guest-editor of an issue of IQD magazine titled "I don't know".
ELASTICOFarm was invited to exhibit at the Italian Pavilion during the 17th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, showcasing a preview of the project for the new Weengushk Film Institute. This institute is set to be constructed along the coast of Manitoulin Island, situated on Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada.
Name of the project: The Hole with the House Around
Location: Cambiano (Torino), Italy
Architect: ELASTICOFarm www.elasticofarm.com︱@elasticofarm @stefano_pujatti
Design team: Stefano Pujatti, Daniele Almondo, Valeria Brero, Serena Nano, Andrea Rosada
Structural engineering: Corrado Curti
Mechanical engineering: Pasquale Matarazzo, Bruno Marcon
Contractor: De Filippi Costruzioni
Project size:
Intervention plot area: 5.635 square meters
Extension (new house): 135 square meters
Renovation (existing house): 250 square meters
Project schedule:
Design: February 2015 - December 2016
Construction: February 2017 - June 2022
Completion: July 2022
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