Apartments, Baden

2017

In the rich city of Baden a client decides to build apartments.
The building laws of the municipality are rigid and absurd. The context is boring.
There are different types of spaces in architecture “generic spaces” , “fluid spaces” … and the intention was to dissipate the symbolic the ornamental and the structural in a cosmic space.

Competition for a multipurpose hall and apartments

Lechelles

2013

The small village of Lechelles has developed around two poles, the cantonal road and the railway station. The intervention aims to maintain the natural development of the village, by embodying the upcoming pedestrian road. The new buildings are set  in a way they manage to enhance the heritage of the place, where the character of the existing is being exalted into a reformed tradition. It’s about a poetic-dialogic revitalisation of the heritage, where mystical references merge into a unity, a mix between a progressive modernism and a degressive tradition.

Swiss Embassy, Yaound, Camerun

2012

The new swiss embassy in Yaound is divided in two units: the first one, the living area for the swiss ambassador and his guests and the second one, the chancellery, for employees and visa applicants. The two different functional units are joined by a sloping oval green garden. To emphasize the representative character of the building the whole embassy is conceived in black basalt. As an african mandala expresses the center of his inner being, an embassy should express his essence as an
anonymous fortress. Harmonia Mundi is the balance constituted between being immutable, eternal and space mutable and corrupt. The equilibrium between spirit and matter.

Essentia University Campus USI/SUPSI, Lugano

2011

From the essence of the meaning of what a Campus is, the complex has been divided in two parts: common spaces and USI/SUPSI Block. Because of program layout, the building along the perimeter, containing mensa, library, kindergarten, sport, startup center etc. flows into the neighborhood serving the surrounding context, the USI-SUPSI buildings and the USI complex beyond the river.  The green space in the middle becomes a revival of Parco Ciani. The architectural elements treat the coexistence of the complexio oppositorum: on one side generating-creating, idea-matter, transcendence-immanence and on the other side eteronomy-autonomy, nature-abstraction, tradition-progress, tectonic-atectonic, the synthesis of the eternal present. Symbolum est communis Essentia.