CONCEPT
The proposal aims to transform the “Former House of Toptani Family’’ into a crucial node for the city center of Tirana. The position of the House, its exteriors spaces and possible accesses, give the opportunity to develop both a new cultural space and a public square that connects different vital areas of the city center. The court of the house is then conceived as a flexible public space where the new museum can expand its activities, hosting different events like performances, projections, concerts. The project strategy is based on three main architectonical devices: a stairway, a tower, a portal. The restauration of the building will bring back the original details, frescos, with gentle transformations to improve vitality and synergies with the exterior spaces. The renovation of the interiors aims to enhance the architectonical features of the House increasing compatibility with a flexible program of a cultural center. The idea is to restore the spaces to transform the House itself in an exhibition space, capable to host workshops, seminars, library. The new BESA Museum should work as a cultural threshold to the Albanian way of being, immersing the visitor into an enveloping experience of cultural exchange.
LOCATION: Tirana, Albania
STATUS: Competiton
CLIENT: AKPT
YEAR: 2023
TEAM: 2A+P/A Studio Associato + Studio-Rebus
CONCEPT
We proposed a building that maximizes programmatic flexibility developing and evolving the traditional functional scheme. We propose a building which maintains the independence of the main functions by ensuring an organic link between the two made them integral parts of each other. We consider main functions not elements solid but as a mechanism with a symbiotic character which are naturally unified into one only enabling the performance of various activities with special creative specifications artistic in the future without preventing him from realizing the division of spaces at the same time to fulfill the primary programmatic mission. In this view this configuration it will also serve as an impetus for artists, who can re-imagine traditional works on a larger scale or to create new ones in function of the freedom that the project offers integrated the public not only through the internal spaces but also those of external, which offer the reaction of the performances in an open environment.
LOCATION: Suharekë, Kosovo
STATUS: Competition
CLIENT: Komuna e Suharekës
YEAR: 2017
TEAM: Studio-Rebus
CONCEPT
The Kaunas Science Center in a wider urban context, rather than being a building in the park will be an event along the public space of Kaunas city in which the park itself plays the same role. The urban proposal defines a clear definition between the park and the Science Center offering the possibility to participate independently in the urban space while having a clear correlation between the two. Our proposal defines a clear positioning of the Science Center, leaving the park intact reconfirming its existing limits as an expression of modesty towards nature and local memory. The Science Center will act as a singularity along the Kaunas public space, a singularity as a constructed environment in close relationship with public and nature which does not seek to produce a sign in advance but may ultimately become one, a realistic building detached by any rhetorical effect.
LOCATION: Kaunas, Lithuania
STATUS: Competition
CLIENT: Municipality of Kaunas
YEAR: 2016
TEAM: Studio-Rebus
CONCEPT
The project intends to inverse the actual trend setting up the grounds for an equal behavior in both directions. It allows nature to "invade" in any eventual possibility the built environment, at any occasion created by unspecified factors. The Suncheon Platform will have the genesis in the complexity of this relationship and the rationality of its expression. The project rethinks the art platform through its most immediate expression in society: its architecture. An architecture that rejects the simplistic response of human authority. An architecture that admits as genetic the principle of equality without undermining the superposition of historical footprints. An architecture capable of finding its proper place in the immediate context, without any effect of speculation. An architecture open to public and nature visually and physically.
LOCATION: Suncheon, South Korea
STATUS: Competition
CLIENT: Municipality of Suncheon
YEAR: 2016
TEAM: Studio-Rebus
CONCEPT
The project consists of a single cube anchored in a horizontal bare ceiling along the binding axis of the Neue Nationalgalerie. The assemblage follows the ideology of survival founded and developed by Mies Van Der Rohe by adding the details along the axis without disturbing the view of any feature such as monuments, nature or important visible directions of Potzdamer Strasse. The project achieves to keep the idea of open space by creating a public space, like a green terrace in front of the museum, so that it is easily accessible and the continuous view along Potzdamer Strasse is not interrupted. The visitor center, as a detail along the axis, completes the design.
LOCATION: Berlin, Germany
STATUS: Competition
CLIENT: Federal Republic of Germany
YEAR: 2015
TEAM: Studio-Rebus
CONCEPT
Our proposal regarding the restoration of the Vienna museum is to double its program. The integration of the new program is considered as a medium, which itself will have as its main protagonist the transformation of the relationship of the existing building to the public space. The new museum offers two realities that constantly merge. The first is the existing building, which will mainly continue to preserve and present the permanent collection, maintaining the spatial dimension, exhibition system, as well as the texture and external materials, in order to protect in time the visual and collective memory that has been created over time. The existing building will strictly keep the remaining materials. The additional parts will be mainly made of metal structures and the partitions, as well as the floors, will be made of simpler materials. The outer skin will consist of reinforced reflective aluminum panels and the transparent parts of the facade will be structured laminated glass with a transparency of up to 85%.
LOCATION: Vienna, Austria
STATUS: Competition
CLIENT: Vienna Municipality
YEAR: 2015
TEAM: Studio-Rebus
CONCEPT
Our proposal consisted in a building which maximizes the programmatic flexibility of the theatre allowing it the possibility to develop further in its functional traditional scheme. We propose that the most flexible area and the main focus of the theatre, the auditorium, should serve as the connecting medium between two programmatic elements. We consider the auditorium to be a mechanism of symbolic character which naturally unifies the areas into one whole unit.
LOCATION: Prishtina, Kosovo
STATUS: Competition, Third Prize
CLIENT: Municipality of Prishtina
YEAR: 2013
TEAM: Studio-Rebus
CONCEPT
Our design consists of two quasi-spherical volumes slightly different from one another. Both volumes are proposed to be park observatories and as such they are united in concept and meant to be perceived as a whole. By distributing the program at 360 degrees we propose a full-scale viewing opportunity not only over the park but also into the city. The ground level in both buildings is meant to be occupied as little as possible, intending not to disturb the first impression from the park avenue to the park. The main functions of the permanent exhibition and the reading space are positioned in the middle height of the buildings to allow a better view of the park and better access by the users. In the upper floor functions such as the refreshment areas and viewing deck are positioned.
LOCATION: Taichung, Taiwan
STATUS: Competition
CLIENT: Municipality of Taichung
YEAR: 2013
TEAM: Studio-Rebus
CONCEPT
The Museum of the Bank of Albania has as its main function the information and the education of the broad public on the concept of Numismatics, history and the role and activity of the Bank of Albania in the country’s economy. The architectural project of the Museum is strongly based in the key role that the Bank of Albania has played in education and information of the public on the culture of money and its operational role in the economy. The concept of the museum is focused on Money, not only as physical transaction mean and the role that it has played in different periods of economic development of the country but also in the way that this valuable asset is physically developed, starting from strange shape to the more sophisticated appearance in the upcoming social-economic stages up to digital transactions. In our project we are focused in the two conceptual sides of the money, its physical side and its virtual side. We propose a museum that intends not only to visualize that concept but also to present to the public a concentrated information on the world of money.
LOCATION: Tirana, Albania
STATUS: Competition, First Prize
CLIENT: Bank of Albania
YEAR: 2013
TEAM: Studio-Rebus_ARK.i.Post Engineering_Museum Engineering_Goppion
CONCEPT
The aim of this project was to provide a façade that satisfies multiple purposes such as presence, originality and integration to the urban context where it is located. The proposed screening is interactive. Not only does it serve as advertisement for the cinema but also as a real time media for eventual events taking place within the urban context. Retro-projection and cameras are used to make possible real time display of the events. The material used is High Performance Sentry Glass tinted in dark brown which gives to the Cinema Hall a unified appearance that is both mystic and reflective during the day while being transparent and welcoming during the night show.
LOCATION: Moscow, Russia
STATUS: Competition
CLIENT: RAA
YEAR: 2011
TEAM: Studio-Rebus
CONCEPT
The challenge in today’s architecture lies in creating fully functional buildings that are not only environmentally friendly but also provide a smooth co-existence and communication between the building, the environment and humans, minimizing the physiologic and visual impact of the intervention. We proposed “The Tower” as a complex vessel composed of nesting soil, plants, various functions and a pedestrian path that goes through open air, green observation platforms, and functional spaces. The geometry of the Tower is based on a simple geometrical form, The Cube. The outer envelope of the building is composed of a combination of stainless steel panels with a double skin façade that includes transparent glass in the inner layer and ASI see-through panels with incorporated Thin Film PV panels.
LOCATION: Taichung, Taiwan
STATUS: Competition
CLIENT: Municipality of Taichung
YEAR: 2010
TEAM: Studio-Rebus
CONCEPT
Our intent was to create a fully functional building which was not only environmentally friendly but also mimics nature in its behavior and appearance in order to minimize the visual impact of the intervention. The museum was conceptualized to be a green vessel nesting soil, plants, functions and a pedestrian path that goes through open air, green observation platforms and functional spaces. The museum also incorporates green wall features in its design in order to further reduce the visual impact to the environment and the CO2 emission thanks to the green wall filtering. Additionally it features a rain water collector for its normal consumption and to assure the natural cycle of the plants.
LOCATION: Santiago, Chile
STATUS: Competition, 3rd Prize
CLIENT: Municipality of Santiago
YEAR: 2010
TEAM: Studio-Rebus