dap studio & paola giaconia_cultural center
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Dap Studio & Paola Giaconia_Cultural Center of RanicaTRANSCRIPT
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ASthought #24
project: architect:
Cultural Centre / Dap Studio & Paola Giaconia
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book editor:
Niki Georgiou
project: architect:
Cultural Centre / Dap Studio & Paola Giaconia
ASthought #24
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All rights reserved © All AuthorsAll drawings © Dap Studio All renders and construction site pictures © Dap StudioAll pictures © Authorsthis volume has no commercial purposes but only educational goals
Milan 2013
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Content
Work facts p. 6-7
Project description p. 8-11
Commission p. 12-15
Draft proposals p. 16-23
Final proposal p. 24-35
Models p. 36-43
Construction drawings p. 44-51
Building site p. 52-59
Photo gallery exteriors p. 60-69
Photo gallery interiors p. 70-81
Photo gallery surroundings p. 82-85
Selected essay p. 86-89
Appendix
office presentation p. 90-93
book editor presentation p. 94
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Work facts
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Project: Cultural Centre
Address: Passagio sciopero di Rnica, 24020, BG Ranica, Italy
Area: 2.240 m²
Type: Mixed-use civic centre
Planned: 2006 – 2010
Built: 2007-2010
Client: Ranica Municipality
Architect: Dap Studio / Paola Giaconia
Responsible partners: Pasquale Gallo, Alessia Mosci, Laura Tagliabue, Paolo Vimercati
Structural engineer: D.Arrigoni
Awards: OAB Awards 2011, Best Public Work 2000-2010
References: http://www.dapstudio.com/include/progetto.php?lang=it&pjid=00006
Project description: Cultural Centre - DAP Studio&Paola Giaconia
History of Commission: Ranica, a small medieval town in the outskirts of Bergamo, Italy, can now enjoy a piece of
contemporary architecture: the new Cultural Center In a moment of weakness and
vulnerability for the state of culture in Italy, Ranica responds to the situation by opening
this new building, devoted to education, to community, and to intellectual energy.
Main architectural ideas: The building, located between the historical nucleus of the town and the area of urban growth,
is the physical hinge of the resulting urban structure. With its sharp and pristine image and
soft color nuances alternative to the surroundin buildings, the Cultural Center stirs the
urban landscape aesthetically and winks at the silvery shimmers of nearby mountains.
The building is made of two volumes, one laid on top of the other, centering on an
interior countryard capturing natural light and attracting pedestrians. It hosts a new
“piazza”, a new meeting point for the citiziens, maintains harmony with the
surrounding landscape. The lower volume is transparent, revealing the activities and
stirring their curiosity instead of the upper volume sits on its top and become a signal.
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Project description
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Ranica, a small medieval town in the outskirts of Bergamo, Italy, can now enjoy a piece of contemporary architecture: the new Cultural
Center by DAP studio and Paola Giaconia. In a moment of weakness and vulnerability for the state of culture in Italy, Ranica responds
to the situation by opening this new building, devoted to education, to community, and to intellectual energy.
The Cultural Center -which opened to the public in the spring of 2010 and contains a public library, an auditorium, a kindergarten,
and a school for dance and theater- substantiates the effective synergy between the public administration of this small town in
Northern Italy and the architects. The project is a manifestation of optimism in the current controversial system of Italian public works.
On January 22, 2011, the project was awarded first prize by the Institute of Architects in Bergamo as the best building in Bergamo and
in its province in the last ten years. The jury, chaired by Swiss architect Aurelio Galfetti, selected the project for the new Cultural
Center in Ranica as the Best Public Building. Ranica, January 23, 2011 - The city of Ranica, in the province of Bergamo, Italy,
inaugurates its new Cultural Center. The project, designed by DAP studio and Paola Giaconia, is the outcome of a competition launched
by the Municipality of Ranica in 2005 to endow the town with an important institution that would augment its cultural and social life.
The recently opened cultural center was completed in less than two years of construction, and represents a new cultural and urbanistic
beacon in the territory, laying the foundations for an alternative urban organization. Thanks to this new building, the medieval town is
able to revitalize its historical urban fabric by fastening it to a new contemporary hub, capable of nourishing the surrounding territory.
In its devotion to culture and cultural enrichment, the institution plays a fundamental role in defining the spaces for the community.
“The Cultural Center is conceived as a new catalyst of urban life. Not only is the building a laboratory for education and information,
but it also becomes a new “piazza” where people can meet and where citizens can reinforce their sense of belonging to their territory,”
the architects explain. The building, located between the historical nucleus of the town and the area of urban growth, is the physical
hinge of the resulting urban structure. With its sharp and pristine image and soft color nuances alternative to the surrounding
buildings, the Cultural Center stirs the urban landscape aesthetically and winks at the silvery shimmers of the nearby mountains and
at the warm shades of dawn or sunset. “The “piazza” has always been defined in history by the physical and visual limits of the buildings
that surround it. With our project -the architects say- we wanted to blur the sharp distinction between solid and void. We opened up
the building to the city and welcomed pedestrian flows up to its very core.”
The building -housing a public library, an auditorium, a kindergarten, and a school for dance and theater- is made
of two volumes, one laid on top of the other, centering on an interior courtyard capturing natural light and attracting
pedestrians. The building hosts a new “piazza”, a new meeting point for citizens. In this sense, the project for the new Cultural Center
reconceives the ground. Begining at grade, the building establishes new links with the city and makes its presence felt as it rises two
floors above the ground. It maintains harmony with the surrounding landscape, which inspired its design, through predominantly
horizontal lines at the floor and ceiling planes of each volume. The lower volume is transparent, revealing the activities which take
place inside to passerby, stirring their curiosity. The upper volume sits on its top and becomes an urban signal. Its translucent
polycarbonate sheets glow with vibrant tints and allow the silhouettes of people to been through the colorful watery facade.
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Commission
On the previous page:
Facade of the building
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South-west side of the site
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North-east side of the site
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North-east side of the site
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Draft proposals
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Exterior 3D view
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Relation with the urban
Analysis of urban density and plant
Relation with the nature
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Main axes of the site
Relation with the roads
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Density of the inhabitants during the day
Modelling of the volumes
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Diagrammes of the site analysis
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Sketches
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Progress of model
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Final proposal
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siteplan
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Ground plan
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1st floor plan
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North-west elevation
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North-west elevation
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South-west elevation
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South-west elevation
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North-east elevation
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South-east elevation
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Section AA’
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Section BB’
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Models
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Upper level interior 3D modeling
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3D view of main staircase
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3D view of upper level
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Interior 3D view from the lower level
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Interior 3D view from the upper level
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Exterior 3D view
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Exterior 3D view
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Construction drawings
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Detail of attic floor(with crawl system)
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Detail of attic floor(above the basement)
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Detail of the exterior projection of the upper volume
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images
Detail of the exterior projection of the upper volume
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Detail of the polycarbonate surface of the
building
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Polycarbonate panels
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Building site
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Exterior skeleton of the construction
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Interior construction
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Intermediate space construction
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Interior construction
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Exterior construction
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Exterior construction of the ramp
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Exterior construction
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Photo gallery exteriors
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Atrium
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This page:
Intermediate space
On the left:
Exterior path
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On the left page above:
Relation between the pedestrian path and the exterior path
On the left page below:
Main entrance from the pedestrian side
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Relation with the intermediate space and open space
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Gallery
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Opening day
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Main entrance of the building
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Photo gallery interiors
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Interior urban landscape
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Relation of the two levels
images
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This page:
Top view from the main staircase
On the left page above:
Relation between the kinder library and first floor
On the left page below:
Panoramic view of the interior
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On the left page above:
Relation between conference hall and atrium
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Relation between library and atrium
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Main staircase
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Corridor of the library_materiality
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Exhibition wall of the library
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Reading place for teenagers
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Plaster elements of the library
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Photo gallery surroundings
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Relation with the pedestrian
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Relation with the square and the buildings
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Relation with the main road
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Relation with the square
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Selected essay
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Gold Medal for italian architecture 2012
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Gold Medal for Architecture 2012
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Gold Medal for Architecture 2012
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appendix
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office presentation
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Paolo Danelli was born in Milan on 28 06 1963. He graduated in 1989 at the faculty of Architecture-Politecnico in Milan. After some years
of collaboration with DA Center, in 1992 he set up the DAP studio practise with Elena Sacco.
Elena Sacco was born in Canelli (At) on 09 03 1965. She graduated in 1990 at the faculty of Architecture-Politecnico in Milan and she ob-
tained the master’s degree “Promotion and improvement of cultural and territorial resources”. She lives and works in Milan as Dap studio
associate architect.
DAP studio is an architectural practice based in Milan from 1992, is hold by Elena Sacco and Paolo Danelli, both graduated at the faculty
of Architecture-Politecnico in Milan.
The office works for private customers as well as for public bodies and takes part to competitions.
Researches and activities are carried out at different scales thanks to a multidisciplinary and flexible team structure, able to adapt to the
multiple aspects of each project. The work carried out by the studio has so far faced many different aspects of architecture and urbanism:
town planning, residential housing, office buildings, leisure and entertainment, landscape architecture...
Their approach to design is based on a constant analysis and control of the relations set by the project and its program. Architecture mani-
fests itself through a continuous process of sperimentation and discovery.
DAP studio places the architectural planning and the development of plans and cultural systems side by side.
Thanks to the synergy with this particular planning sphere, the studio can develop very detailed feasibility studies and preliminary pro-
grams for the architectural planning and the masterplan definition.
Paolo Danelli was born in Milan on 28 06 1963. He graduated in 1989 at the faculty of Architecture-Politecnico in Milan. After some years
of collaboration with DA Center, in 1992 he set up the DAP studio practise with Elena Sacco.
Elena Sacco was born in Canelli (At) on 09 03 1965. She graduated in 1990 at the faculty of Architecture-Politecnico in Milan and she ob-
tained the master’s degree “Promotion and improvement of cultural and territorial resources”. She lives and works in Milan as Dap studio
associate architect.
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My name is Niki Georgiou and i was born on 1991 in Nicosia, which is the capital of Cyprus. I’m attending the fourth year of University of
Cyprus but i’m currently undertaking a student exchange at Politecnico di Milano. I am interested in many facts of Architecture, spesifi-
cally the part of sustainable Arhitecture. I am also interested in the relation which created between the buildind and the nature.
“ Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will “
book editor presentation
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Work facts
Project: Cultural Centre
Address: Passagio sciopero di Rnica, 24020, BG Ranica, Italy
Area: 2.240 m²
Type: Mixed-use civic centre
Planned: 2006 – 2010
Built: 2007-2010
Client: Ranica Municipality
Architect: Dap Studio / Paola Giaconia
Reasponsible partners: Pasquale Gallo, Alessia Mosci, Laura Tagliabue, Paolo Vimercati
Structural engineer: D.Arrigoni
References: http://www.dapstudio.com/include/progetto.php?lang=it&pjid=00006
Project description: Cultural Centre - DAP Studio&Paola Giaconia
History of Commission: Ranica, a small medieval town in the outskirts of Bergamo, Italy, can now enjoy a piece of
contemporary architecture: the new Cultural Center by DAP Studio and Paola Giaconia. In a
moment of weakness and vulnerability for the state of culture in Italy, Ranica responds to
the situation by opening this new building, devoted to education, to community, and to
intellectual energy
Main architectural ideas: The building, located between the historical nucleus of the town and the area of
urban growth, is the physical hinge of the resulting urban structure. With its sharp and
pristine image and soft color nuances alternative to the surroundin buildings, the
Cultural Center stirs the urban landscape aesthetically and winks at the silvery shimmers
of nearby mountains.