The reconstruction of an important palace in a house in the historic center of Ragusa.
The NIR House designed by the Italian Giuseppe Gurrieri, like the ECS House in Sicily, and Nunzio Gabriele Sciveres. It is located in the historic center of Ragusa where its living room, besides having a view of the cathedral, is also characterized by its ceramic tiles that guarantee the reflection of light.
 

Description of project by Giuseppe Gurrieri and Nunzio Gabriele Sciveres

Nir House is an apartment located on the fifth floor of a condominium built in the historic centre of Ragusa. The building takes up the spaces once occupied by an important town house that in the 1960s was the subject of a questionable particular and reconstruction operation.

Only the former portal remains from the pre-existing building through which there is now access to the condominium staircase. As this is on the left side of the building, it establishes a single lateral access to all the apartments and creates difficulties in terms of moving about and the distribution of internal spaces.

The building overlooks the Piazza della Cattedrale and as a result the apartments are characterized by long corridors leading from the entrance that bisect the spaces to ensure that the rooms are as habitable and comfortable as possible.

The apartment which was the focus of the work has a living room that as well as overlooking the cathedral is connected via the rear of the building to a covered terrace; this double exposure ensures that a considerable amount of light reflects into the room thanks to the flooring in glossy blue and white ceramic tiles similar in design to the Copacabana calçadão.

Having decided not to alter the layout of the living room, it was decided to modify the connecting area by treating it as an urban space to be transformed according to requirements. Therefore the design focuses on the corridor which expands at the entrance creating a small reception area and which then narrows in line with the bedrooms finally to open up and flow into the large living room.

The remaining space is occupied by a service block that contains the kitchen and the pantry and from which sliding glass and wood panels come out that isolate the rooms according to requirements as and when.

This block marks the boundary between the old floor which it was decided to maintain and the new wooden floor whose design, alongside that of the false ceilings, emphasizes the concept of expansion within the connecting system.

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Giuseppe Gurrieri and Nunzio Gabriele Sciveres.
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Design team
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Giuseppe Gurrieri, Nunzio Gabriele Sciveres, Valentina Occhipinti and Dario Gulino.
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Main Contractor
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BERA COSTRUZIONI s.r.l
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Ing. Gianni Giuffrida.
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PITITTO & FIGLI by Giuseppe Pititto.
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Private.
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Completed.- 04/2016.
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Ragusa (RG), Sicily, Italy.
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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 18, 2020
Cite: "NIR House at Ragusa by Giuseppe Gurrieri and Nunzio Gabriele Sciveres" METALOCUS. Accessed
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