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altro_studio

Profile of altro_studio, headquartered in Italy. Three projects submitted by altro_studio have been published on Architecture News Plus (ANP).

Principal

Anna Rita Emili

Brief description

altro_studio was set up in 1998 by a group of people willing to work in an inter-disciplinary environment (at first the group was composed by one architect, two artists (one of them belonging to the Stalker group), one historian and urban planner and some collaborators.

Taking its cue from the idea of inter-disciplinary activity, altro_studio has developed, from the very beginning, a research stemming from the specific field of housing, starting from nomadic housing (temporary house) and ending with the living unit. The activity mainly addresses the new ways of living the house: temporary, flexible, transformable, mobile ways of living the house. Understanding the new needs of the individual, both on a functional and on a structural level, is what propels altro_studio in its research about new technologies (mainly automation) and new materials with particular reference to the problems of environmental sustainability.

Published projects

: Re-composed living unit by altro_studio Disassemble-reassemble, dismantle-reconstruct, disjoin-rejoin are contrasting pairs, extreme terms but also devices that help producing a new entity without...

: Lawn House by altro_studio This project is an bio-compatible mobile house, characterized by still structure with envelope in plastic transparent panels (1.2 mm depth). The “tray”...

: House GreenHouse by altro_studio This project is characterized by an economic green-house, in steel and glass, conceived as an e-house core. This green house contains a heating system,...