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Lecce, a university residence in the spaces of the former Carmelitani Scalzi convent
First phase of the two-stage international design competition.
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Pelagos Marine Mammal Sanctuary Interpretation Centre
First prize in the two-stage international design competition for the renovation of the building known as "Ex Galeazze" in the municipality of Portoferraio
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San Pietro in Montorio
Pietro is here.
On the Gianicolo hill, the Church of San Pietro in Montorio conceals the small and, fundamental for the history of architecture, the Bramante temple
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Tiburtina 1205
A building that is thought of as the interlocking of two folded linear volumes, from whose envelope springs a garden courtyard that is the green heart of the project. The compact and material building on the street front, has large windows towards the garden, along which the office spaces stand, with natural lighting and ventilation.
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la Gancia
The chapel of Nostra Signora di Guadalupe, the most exuberant of the chapels of the Church of Santa Maria Degli Angeli at La Gancia in Palermo, houses the tomb of Don Juan Lopez de Cisneros, the inquisitor killed in the secrets of the Steri "by the heretic" frà Diego la Matina in 1657, whose story was told by Sciascia in his booklet "Death of the Inquisitor".
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christian rocchi + valeria caramagno
urban planning + architecture + restoration
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The Purpose of this project is to create an urban system according to the circular economy approach, through the implementation of the existing services with new activities, that can be taken as sustainable model of city for the future. The area (about 95ha) was subject to mining activities; we work with the treatment and recycling of demolition aggregates, we experiment with transformations of secondary raw materials, in continuity with the life cycle of the matter. We imagine a new environmental system with production of energy from recycling (wood chips, biogas, biomass); planting of woodland areas; research center on recovery…
+ more info on urban planning and landscape: La Spezia waterfront | Vado ligure waterfront
San Pietro in Montorio
Pietro is here. On the Gianicolo hill, the Church of San Pietro in Montorio conceals the small and, fundamental for the history of architecture, the Bramante temple. This is a place of witness, a place that preserves memories, the passage and the hand of important architects and artists of Italian history. G. L. Bernini, Giorgio Vasari, Sebastiano Del Piombo, Baldassarre Peruzzi have made this church an iconic stage of the Renaissance. An artistic heritage of fundamental importance that requires a deep restoration after a long period of neglect.
+ more info on restoration: Palazzo di Spagna | Palace in via Giulia, Rome | Madonna di Guadalupe Chapel in Palermo | Piazza Navona 101 office
Lecce, a university residence in the spaces of the former Carmelitani Scalzi convent
The project stems from the relationship between the interest in the architectural and urban value expressed by the architecture of the former convent, which requires the necessary preservation of the spaces of great historical and cultural value, and the intervention from scratch.
+ more info on architecture: New San Giovanni Bosco parish complex in Bagheria (PA) | Pelagos Marine Mammal Sanctuary Interpretation Centre | Bastioni di Porta Nuova | Tiburtina 1205
/ ch+vl team
The office births and developes in Rome from 2004 as the union of the Christian Rocchi and Valeria Caramagno experiences.
The office is specialized in the restoration and the structural consolidation of historical buildings, the architectural and urban projects characterized by the particular attention to the relationship between the history and the constructive technics, with the research of compatible and suitable solutions aimed to the adaptation of the buildings to the contemporary uses, and the residential buildings.
/ Valeria Caramagno
director_founder
/ Christian Rocchi
director_founder
/ Contact us
Roma office
Address
piazza Navona 101
00186 Roma
+39 06 88373911
Email: info@chvl.it
Skype: ch.vl.it