C A’ B U S C A
The project for the restoration of Ca’ Busca Complex can be defined as a project of “open” architecture: not locked into the building’s interiors single shape, but designed to serve the flexibility of the program and activities. The project, indeed, is conceived as a dialogue between different objects with their different shapes and materials.
The intervention’s concept is focused on the relationship between the several underestimated interior spaces and a series of volumes or little intervention that host the service elements for the new functions.
These object are disposed with attention and care into the space to create an ideal city, an urban micro-cosmos composed by similar urban spaces: small streets and large squares. The new volumes take the form of small buildings, where through a limited set of materials, they become a blurred background against the other installations and the others micro-architectures, the cultural events, and most important the people.
With this meaning, the project has the goal to realize a building radically public in its nature, and above all in its spatial conception. The architectonic interventions combine this goal with the conservation of the extraordinary existing spatial qualities, the fascinating atmosphere and the tone imposed by the materials and the imperfections of the eighteen century palace.
client Comune di Gorgonzola
location Gorgonzola, Italy
architectural project A R C H I T E C T U R E O F F I C E
architects Andrea Fossati, Giulia De Toma e Fanni Szarvas
visuals Fanni Szarvas
competition entry 2018 - 4° prize
