ASt035 Entrance to Sant'Eufemia

project: architect:

Entrance to Sant’Eufemia / Paolo Mestriner-studioazero

ASthought #35

book editor:

Iva Pauzar

ASthought

project: architect:

Entrance to Sant Eufemia / Paolo Mestriner-studioazero

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Milan 2013

Content

Work facts p. 5

Project description p. 7

Commission and Surrounding p. 11

Draft proposals p. 17

Final proposal p. 21

Construction drawings p. 27

Building site p. 39

Photo gallery p. 43

Selected essay p. 55

Appendix

office presentation p. 61

book editor presentation p. 63

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Work facts

7entrance to Sant’Eufemia - Paolo Mestriner - studioazero

Project: Entrance to Sant’Eufemia

Address: Piazza Sant’Eufemia, 25100, Brescia, Italy

Area: 12198 m²

Type: Public space

Planned: 2002.

Built: 2006.

Client: local municipality

Architect: studioazero / Paolo Mestriner, P.Pedrali, A. Rossini

Responsible partner: Paolo Mestriner

Collaborator: M. J. Cruz Moreno, B. Tasca, E. Viva, M. Romano, A. Busi

Consultants: A. Gasparini

References: studioazero

Project description: entrance-sant’eufemia-studioazero

History of Commission: The first competition that the architect Paolo Mestriner and his officewon, that was

a competition of curriculum vitae provided by the local municipality of Brindisi

Main architectural ideas: Get the idea out of the context. Establish the connections and relations between the items and

materials.

Project description


“Designing public spaces is very difficult.”- said architect Paolo Mestrineron on the project of the En-

trance to Sant Eufemia in Brescia. It was the first time he participated, with his office, on a competition

given by the municipality of Brescia , where the main goal was to find an office with enough experience

in working on public spaces. The whole project was born out of the context, the only thing that he and

his team had to be careful of was the budget. The 140 × 27 m2 of public space, which extends in east

/ west, is integrated between the sacral object, the archeological site and on the city road. There is no

real centrality, just a axis that was created by the stone wall bench that is dividing the public and more

intimate park space of the church. The concept of the space was to connect the public street side, and

tne park side of the church. The gradation was made by different ground elevations, putting the park on

a higher level. Also the gradation was made by the materials, putting the natural materials in the park

and artificial ones on the street side. The wall benche acts like a trashold between these 2 spheres,

connecting them with 3 passages, northern made of wooden Acacia flooring; diagonal, Remembrance

Avenue, made of granite; and the southern ground one that acts like a hidden passage. While sitting

on the stone wall bench the perspectives on both sides of the wall changes. The upper horizon on the

street side gives the whole view of the surrounding, looking on the park side ground level becomes

the level of the horizon, making the viewer part of the nature.The street side contains concrete wall in

corten metal. The rustiness of the corten resembles the soil of the hill in the background of the area, and

shows a sense of time and changes. The walls create barriers to the parking place, bus stop and the

road, partially isolating the pedestrian side and the park. The walls are perforated with proportional cuts

that make framed connections to the business of the street. On the street side are corten benches that

are sheded during the hotter days, unlike the wall benches.In the park is a tree lane where are five stone

benches integrate among them. There is also an old stone which was dug up during the realization. At

the south end of the space is a water well pipe placed in the wall, the same wall changes its height along

the perimeter as it goes along the perpendicular street and ends around the outdoor altar. The important

issue of water within the public space is detected under the cortain walls, where is a grid disposal that

symbols the dynamic of the water.

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Commission and Surrounding

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Draft proposals

project layers

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Final proposal

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final drowing

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Viale della Bornata side of the public space


1 path santella

2 viale della Bornata

3 park of Remembrance

4 museum of 1000 miles

5 santella

6 newsstand

7 bus stop

8 corten bench

9 tamoil

10 parking

11 stone wall bench

12 fountain


Construction drawings



pavement detail drawing

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water detail drawings

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corten wall detail drawings

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stone wall bench detail drawings


floor drainage detail drawings


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textures ,connections, relations

Building site


images


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4. 2.

4. 6.

4. 10.

4. 3.

4. 7.

4. 11.

realisation timeline


4. 4.

4. 8.

4. 12.

4. 5.

4. 9.

5. 1.


Photo gallery



park of Remembrance

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images


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captions captions captions


park of Rememberence, looking from the altar to the Vilale della Bornata

Selected essay

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Gennaro Postiglione (a cura di)

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appendix

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office presentation


(San Remo, 1964) Founder and inventor of studioazero, an architectural studio in Brescia. After

studying in Lisbon, Porto and with a degree at the Politecnico in Milan, he starts his professional

and teaching career. He is a hired professor at the Facolta di Architettura e Societa of the Po-

litecnico in Milan and director of International Master on Extraordinary Landscapes, Landscape

Art and architecture. He has been several times selected and awarded in international competi-

tions like Matosinhos, Brescia, Segovia, Roma, Firenze, Perugia, Varese, Somarate, Quartu Sant

’.Elena, Pantelleria. He has been published on several national and international magazines, like

Housing, Pasajes, d ’Architettura, Wettwerbe Aktuell, Construire, Cadernos, FutureArquitectu-

ras, Progettare. He has taken part in personal and collective exhibitions in Brescia, Milan, Porto,

Parma, Venice, London, China and Norway.

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book editor presentation


Iva Pauzar is born in Croatia, city of Osijek, 11.06.1987., where she finished elementary school

and gymnasium of Natural and Mathematic. After her high school moved to Zagreb where she

continued her education on Faculty of Architecture Zagreb. Till now she participated on several

workshops and seminars and worked in couple of architectural offices. She is currently on Eras-

mus on Politecnico di Milano where she is finishing her last semester on Master of studies, after

which she will return to her home faculty hopefuly end her academic education.

Work facts

Project: Entrance to Sant’Eufemia

Address: Piazza Sant’Eufemia, 25100, Brescia, Italy

Area: 12198 m²

Type: public space

Planned: 2002

Built: 2006

Client: local municipality

Architect: studioazero / Paolo Mestriner, P.Pedrali, A. Rossini

Responsible partner: Paolo Mestriner

Collaborators: M. J. Cruz Moreno, B. Tasca, E. Viva, M. Romano, A. Busi

Consultant: A. Gasparini

References: studioazero

Project description: entrance-sant’eufemia-studioazero

History of Commission: The first competition that the architect Paolo Mestriner and his officewon, that was

a competition of curriculum vitae provided by the local municipality of Brescia

Main architectural ideas: Get the idea out of the context. Establish the connections and relations between the items and

materials.

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