DUOPUU designed a new life for an abandoned villa made of 100% wood and never finished. The greenest building is the one that already exists; this is even more true if the starting point is a house already built in timber.
Selected portions of main bearing elements, both horizontal and vertical, have been analyzed to define the entity of mechanisms of wood degradation in the CLT panels and design specific intervention methods. The project's goal was to not demolish the villa and not re-build a new one, demonstrating a new scale of circularity both in the impact of the building construction and the re-used materials and minimizing the new ones / Client: private / Total surface: 300 sqm / Status: finished.
As research fellow Paolo Simeone collaborated with Guido Callegari – professor and researcher in architectural technology – to design the original graphics in his very interesting essay Vertical extensions as a strategy for the resilient city inside the new book "Roofscape Design. Regenerating the City upon the City" (Berlin, Jovis, 2021) written by Guido Callegari and Gustavo Ambrosini –both professor at Department of Architecture and Design, Polytechnic University of Turin. The graphics support the essay helping the reader to show the complex connections between the construction sector and the circular economy, existing buildings' architectural additions and the whole life cycle carbon assessment and the adaptive reuse as a driver for the development of new scenarios and strategies / Hands: Nina and Zeno.
DUOPUU has collaborated with Enrico Molteni Architecture office in the design of a new kindergarten entirely made out of engineered wood and organic/bio based building materials. DUOPUU has interpreted the curvilinear shapes of Enrico Molteni’s project, transforming them into light weight curved timber-frame walls with special natural infill insulation and insulating coat. DUOPUU has worked with TimberTech, a company expert in timber construction’s structural analysis in order to design an unconventional wooden building using standard and certified elements. [1st prize Competition; status: on-going; total surface: 1000 sqm]. Design: Enrico Molteni Architecture / Wooden architecture: DUOPUU / Timber construction: TimberTech / Landscape: RSL Landscape / Graphics: Vitali Studio / Technical installations: Consult Engineering / Educational and pedagogical content: Reggio Children / Drawings and pictures by Enrico Molteni.
DUOPUU provided the technical consulting for a preliminary concept of a new model of environmentally low-impact residential buildings designed by Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel firm. With ACPV research team DUOPUU defined the systems and strategies for sustainable prefabrication processes and off-site architectural methods, considering timber as the main constructive material / Competition / Status: finished / Original graphics: DUOPUU with G. Callegari / Collaborations: prof. Guido Callegari, Politecnico di Torino.
As research fellow Paolo Simeone is involved in the "Integrated Photovoltaic Architectural Façade Design” research project 2018-22 carried out by Polytechnic University of Turin, Architecture and Design Department, person in charge Prof. Guido Callegari, which is focused on studying and designing a prototype of a new integrated photovoltaic thermal solar module, ready to be installed on façades of existing and new buildings. [Photo credits: DAD Politecnico Torino / opus Architekten BDA]
DUOPUU provided the concept and executive design of a wooden furniture system for the new retail shops of RCE FOTO company. RCE FOTO is the biggest Italian retailer of used professional photography equipment with tested guarantee. The lightweight and prefab furniture system is designed to be quickly and easily assembled in the existent shops. The system is characterized by a strong RCE FOTO identity and is easily adaptable to various different shop layouts. [Client: private; status: on-going]
