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."

Photographs

Photograph by Alessandro Ciampi.

Photograph by Alessandro Ciampi.

Photograph by Alessandro Ciampi.

Photographs

Photograph by Alessandro Ciampi.

Photograph by Alessandro Ciampi.

Photograph by Alessandro Ciampi.

Photographs

Photograph by Alessandro Ciampi.

Photograph by Alessandro Ciampi.

Photograph by Alessandro Ciampi.

Photographs

Photograph by Alessandro Ciampi.

Close-up of material used in the design.
Photograph by Alessandro Ciampi.

Credits

• Text by Giovanni Vaccarini
• Photographs by Alessandro Ciampi, Courtesy of Giovanni Vaccarini
• Compiled by Mitesh Saraf