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Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli

New office building . Vascon di Carbonera

Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli . photos: © MARCO CAPPELLETTI

Carlana Mezzalira Pentimallihas unveiled the new headquarters for Itagency, Faba, Maikii, and Exclama in Vascon di Carbonera, a region north of Treviso known for its dense industrial warehouses. This project merges architecture, art, and community to create an innovative and collaborative workspace that also considers its social impact. Continue reading Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli

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Hortus Conclusus . Locarno

Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli . renders: © Filippo Bolognese

The new Cantonal Museum of Natural History of Locarno is, first and foremost, a ‘place’. Situated in a border location and characterised by its peculiar morphology, the recovery of this relevant urban area allows for multifaceted and multiple reasoning, which involves the disciplines of landscape, town planning, architecture and art in a synergetic and indissoluble manner. Given the strong specificity of the site’s conditions, history and existing artefacts, the decision to consider the area of intervention as a sort of Hortus Conclusus, an attempt to rediscover the authentic characteristics of the ‘Brolo’ (an ancient word used to indicate vegetable gardens and orchards surrounded by walls), seeing the contemporary intervention as a historical evolution of the old. Continue reading Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli

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Kulturbaum New Civic Library . Brixen

Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli. photos: © Marco Cappelletti

Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli has completed the new Brixen Public Library (Bolzano, Italy), a stone’s throw from the Duomo — a public institution founded in 1984, which, with its legacy of over 36.000 books represents a landmark for the entire Isarco Valley. Continue reading Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli

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Lichtung . Bressanone

Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli . Renders: © Filippo Bolognese

Lichtung, literally “clearing”, is a project that finds its specificity in the very peculiarities of the context of Millan, Bressanone: a place that is a border between different areas and because of this rich of valuable characteristics that make it alive and usable, but above all “ambiguous”. In this historical time, when the allotment is the model from which to move away, being a border area between different activities is seen as one of the main assets from which to begin rethinking a significant part of the territory. Continue reading Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli