The Garden Housing project is a housing development designed by Nunzio Sciveres y Giuseppe Gurrieri in the city of Marina Di Ragusa, Italy, with a total of 4 typologies where each one adapts to the context independently.
The project designed by Nunzio Sciveres y Giuseppe Gurrieri organizes the residential program around a main axis, composed of colored concrete with oxides and lava powder, which divides the promotion of up to 16 residences, of 110 square meters divided into both floors.
 

Description of project by Nunzio Sciveres y Giuseppe Gurrieri

The architectural program of the building cooperative foresees the realization of sixteen residences within a plan of social housing in Marina di Ragusa in Sicily. The project origins from the analysis of the Sicilian natural and urban landscape, a land full of great contradictions: a beautiful and complex place, which lies in between cultural heritage and traditions, conservation and transformation, architectural experimentation and conventional living. Through design, we have explored the genesis of the Mediterranean built environment: a multidimensional representation in which it is hard to separate the natural landscape from the city, the city from the architecture, the architecture from people’s lives.

The project of the single-family homes has a clear ambition: to invade the field of public residential construction - a private initiative supported by public institutions - with a proposal that puts research on the best conditions for comfort and quality of residential space in front of reasons related to building ratio indexes and the real estate market. A rigorous thought process lies at the foundation of this project in order to evaluate objectives against available tools, remaining within budget limits, and aims to provide a real contribution to the social housing idea in Sicily – great design at a minimum cost.

The area was divided into sixteen lots served by a single two-way street; four different freestanding residential building typologies have been designed. They consist of two floors and each typology is characterized by a different relationship to the context. The idea is trying to build a new neighborhood model, which references to tradition while adapting to everyone’s needs, which is populated by everyone’s vegetation and shared by everyone’s look. The result lies in the simplicity of its style, in its formal rigor and rigidity in contrast to the extreme flexibility of interpretation that responds to the various habits and preferences of its inhabitants.

According to the architectural program, each residence has an area of 110 square meters distributed on two levels and has a 25 square meter covered garage space. On the second floor, the roof of the garage can be used as a terrace with views of the sea. The road is made of concrete colored with oxides and lava powder. The same mixture has been sprayed on the boundary walls with the intent to create a monolithic section of the road, similar to a trench.
In addition, the project aims to design energy efficient buildings with high thermal insulation properties through the use of modern building systems, technologies and renewable energy sources.

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Nunzio Gabriele Sciveres and Giuseppe Gurrieri Studio.
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Design team
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Nunzio Gabriele Sciveres, Giuseppe Gurreri, Dario Gulino and Valentina Occhipinti
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Collaborators
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Consultant.- Ing. Annalisa Spadola. Forniture.- METAL SUD di Corallo
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Contractor
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EDILCO s.p.a.
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Client
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Garden Cooperativa
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Area
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1900.00 m²
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Diciembre de 2017
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Budget
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800 €/m²
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Nunzio Gabriele Sciveres was born in Vittoria in 1978, studied Architecture at the Polytechnic of Milan, where he graduated in 2003.

He studied at the ETSA in Seville and participated in numerous international workshops in Spain, Portugal and Italy. From 2004 to 2009 he worked with M.G.Grasso Cannizzo in Vittoria. Since 2008, he has been supporting the practice of research collaborating with Architectural Design I courses at the Polytechnic of Milan.

In 2009 he opened a studio in Milan and in 2010 he was a professor of Interior Design at the NABA International Master. And he has collaborated and is collaborating with numerous architecture studios.

His work has been recognized by several national and international awards, including the first prize to the film before. B. Vaccarini Quadranti d'Architettura in 2010, the first prize at the Barbara Cappochin International Biennial in 2013, the first ALA Assoarchitetti-Under 40 DEDALO MINOSSE award in 2014. It also received a special mention at the UGO RIVOLTA European Prize (2013) and he was a finalist in the gold medal for Italian architecture, the Piranesi Prize, the A.PRIZE international prize in 2012, the D.PRIZE Prize in 2013; He received a special mention at the INARCH Sicilia Prize in 2014.

In 2015 he presented his work at the Architecture pavilion of the EXPO 2015 in Pirellone in Milan and is a finalist in the Gold Medal of Italian Architecture 2015. His achievements have been published in numerous commercial magazines and architecture books.

He has exhibited at the Milan Triennial, the Italian Institute of Culture in Tokyo, the MAXXI in Rome and the XIV Biennial of Architecture in Venice. Live and work between Vittoria and Milan.
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Giuseppe Gurrieri (Ragusa, 1977) graduated in architecture at the Milan Polytechnic. After his graduation, Gurrieri worked for several years with the practice of Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo in Vittoria. In 2008 he opened his own practice in Dubrovnik and today operates primarily in the field of private residential construction. Gurrieri exerts his activity between Sicily and Puglia. In parallel, he collaborates as a professor with the Faculty of Architecture in Stockholm.

Among his recent awars we found.- the third place at the international competition "SAIE SELECTION" organized by BolognaFiere and Archi-Europa; first prize at the third edition of the award "RI.U.SO"  organized by the National Council of Architects; special mention at the prize“Giovane Talento dell’Architettura Italiana 2014”.

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Published on: July 9, 2018
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