Project:
A Home for All

About

• Project Description

  RP409 - A HOME FOR ALL

  The site we are called to design is barycentric to the peninsula of Lade and works as the pivot of many green connections and cultural institutions. Inserting any new program in Lade should be a thoughtful procedure guided by careful attention in not disturbing or destroying its ecological presences.Imagining a bridge between the important past of Lade and its future should necessarily pass through the dismantling of anthropocentric misconceptions, understanding the importance and also the benefits that trans-species coexistence could bring to this site. A home refers to any location that a person thinks of as the place where she lives and that belongs to her. The project “A home for All” aims to create a place where people, animals and plant species could be home.

• Jury Remarks

  The project successfully integrates both a nursing home and the necessary housing units into the site with a subtle yet distinctive touch. This gentleness is exemplified in the visually stunning graphic presentations, inviting a closer examination to appreciate all the project's qualities.

  Through a ‘green ring’, the project links the site to the existing green corridors of the Lade peninsula stretching inwards from the coast. They build a successful overarching green strategy of living with other species that is implemented at both the neighbourhood and architectural scales.

  There is a clear strategy on where on the site there is room for building new, how and why the existing building mass is kept, and where large green areas are left untouched. The project successfully collects programs in denser points in order to leave other parts untouched for the sake of the other species with which we share this site.

  The nursing home is placed as a series of linked pentagonal shaped buildings along the northside of the steep slope from Kanonhaugen, thus creating a protected green area south of the buildings for the fragile inhabitants. The pentagonal shape of the building creates a subtle but distinct character to the nursing home, resulting in a strong identity.

• Team

  ”A mole is defined as the amount of matter (or substance) of a system containing as many elementary entities as there are atoms in 12 g of carbon 12, i.e. equal to Avogadro's constant 6.022 x 1023 . One mole of any substance (ions, atoms, molecules) contains 6.022 x 1023 particles of that substance”.

  
  

  /mò·le/ is a reactive practice that research answers to contemporary questions through a multidisciplinary collaboration between its components.
  

  The practical, intellectual and expressive approach of /mò·le/ is not axiomatic, it is the result of conditions, limitations, proposals, opportunities and study of places, problems and assignments.
  

  It believes in the project as unique tool to approach theoretical and practical issues indiscriminately.
  

  The list of components of /mò·le/ is flexible and open.
  

  /mò·le/ was founded by Michele Marini in 2022.
  
  

  

  Michele Marini:
  Michele graduated with honors in Architecture Design from the Politecnico di Milano in 2017 and from the Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology in 2016 with a thesis on the urban redevelopment of the Small Pagoda district in Xi’an (winning the POLIMI for ICOM_ Designing Museums award and an Honorable Mention in the Michele Silvers Prize). He has collaborated professionally with several architecture firms, including June14 - Meyer-Grohbrügge & Chermayeff, Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos, Kuehn Malvezzi Architects. He has also worked as a tutor in Architectural Design courses at the Polytechnic University of Milan, the DAD Università di Genova, and the Università IUAV di Venezia in Prof. Michel Carlana Course (Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli). In 2022, he founded /mò·le/, a collective focused on architectural design and theoretical research in the built environment, landscape, and design with a trans-disciplinary approach. The finalist project Valìt for the Premio Federico Maggia was published on Casabella (935-936). Since 2022, he has been a member of the Youth Commission of the Order of Architects of Brescia and co-curator of the Archilounge section, a program of promotion of the Architectural Culture. In 2023, along with LuMaa, he was invited to participate with the research project “Unbounded Area” in Visioni di un Futuro Presente for Brescia Bergamo, Capital of Italian Culture 2023, along with the best 22 U40 italian offices.

  
  

  Francesca Calzolari:
  Francesca specialized in Environmental Planning and Policy at the Università IUAV di Venezia, previously graduated in Social and International Political Science from the University of Bologna. She is Project Manager for Kilowatt Soc Coop in the consulting area where she is mainly dedicated to planning and social (and environmental) impact management. During previous experiences she worked on participatory planning for complex urban projects, in cities such as Barcelona and Turin, collaborating with universities and organizations for the involvement of key stakeholders.

  
  

  Enrico Gobbi:
  Enrico graduated in 2021 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture - Construction and Conservation at the Università IUAV di Venezia. He is currently finishing his Master’s Degree in Architecture at the Università IUAV di Venezia, after studying at the Oulu University in Finland in 2022 with a design project with Anssi Lassila of OOPEAA. He took part in various W.a.Ve. curricular workshop in Venice held by Taller de Arquitectura Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela Carrillo in 2019 (which project won the 2019 workshop edition) interpreting Otium as a form of reappropriation, COR Arquitectos in 2020 working on rehabilitation of green and public spaces (winning the 2020 workshop edition), and Pedro Domingos in 2021. At the moment he collaborates as a designer in Padua and he is working on a research master ‘s thesis focusing on the effect and risks of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage

  
  

  Lemuel Pedrotti:
  Lemuel graduated with honours with a Bachelor Degree in Architecture - Construction and Conservation at the Università IUAV di Venezia in 2021.He participated in curricular workshops with international studios including raumlaborberlin and Latitude Platform in 2023 with a main focus on self-design and self-building, and COR arquitectos in 2020 working on rehabilitation of green and public spaces in Venice (project that won W.a.Ve 2020 edition). In 2021 he did his internship at Studio Zordan in Venice approaching the building restoration practice. He also collaborated as external CAD drawer and designer with some studios in both Venice and Vicenza between 2020-2021. After studying at ETSAC Coruña for a semester in 2022, he is currently concluding his Master’s Degree in Architecture at Università IUAV di Venezia and working on his final thesis.
  
  

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