Astra building

Photograph by Alessandro Ciampi.

Project details

• Project Name: Astra building
• Client: Astra investment
• Project Type: multiple housing
• Principal Designer/s: Giovanni Vaccarini
• Contractor/s: EDILMACA
• Date of commencement of project: 2004
• Date of completion of project: 2007
• Location of site: Teramo - Italy
• Site Area: 600 sq m
• Built-up Area: 1250 sq m
• Cost of Construction/Execution: 950,000 Euro

Photograph by Alessandro Ciampi.

Words from the designer

"The building houses holiday flats.

The skin bends and 'flakes'; it is a visual protection screen and a light capturing device at the same time. This is the place of reflections and reverberations; windows disappear whereas flakes define cuts and projections, a surface with a sort of thickness of its own in which jutting openings face onto the sea, like sighting posts.

The flat complex "floats" upon a ground floor which is totally empty and dematerialized, connected to earth by means of a long glass wall."

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