Architecture Design, Rowing Nautical Base, Como, Italy
March 24th, 2008 - Posted in Architecture DesignThe Rowing Club Plinio Torno is placed on the west side of a large public space facing the lake of Como.
The design brief required the completion of a new sailing in a part of this square.
The design proposal “sinks” intervention in a stream of stone where the dam is stopped instead contribute to the surface in the public arena.
Access to boats and facilities is therefore on a level lower than the spot, allowing the descent of boats in the water without any interference between the public and sports activities.
The roof of the new building is only one meter higher than the public arena what appears to be its extension and working again raised as a lookout.
The interaction between different levels combines the new building with the architecture and natural landscape and construction permits to deal with movements of the lake, eventually absorb the occasional floods.
The boat storage is divided into two separate volumes, the time needed for the first container vessels long, it is wrong on the lake, while the second for the short boat operates as a connection with the stone base of the villa Terragni.
Project Details
* Project Name: Rowing Nautical Base
* Client: Associazione sportiva Plinio Torno
* Project Type: Architectural design
* Principal Designer: Michele Bonino
* Design Team: Verena Caetano da Silveira, Rebecca Gasco, Philippe Lemay, Luca Maletto, Cristina Marietta, Stefano Oletto
* Contractors: Impresa Bertolini, Artmetal
* Structural Design: Alessandro Bosisio
* Year of commencement of project: 2004
* Year of completion of project: 2006
* Location of site: Torno, Como, Italy
* Site Area: 70 square meters
* Built-up Area: 58 square meters
* Cost of Construction/Execution: 110,000 Euros
