ARW Botticini+Facchinelli

ARW is a workshop that turns any particular occasion into a reflection and into a statement about the reasons and meaning of architecture. We propose an architecture capable of summarising contemporary worlds complexity into a clear, essential, necessary outcome. In the search for a site specific identity of a project, we retain identity, as in the best Italian tradition, to be able to be local in a global world, nowadays a necessary reference horizon. Architecture begins from its relations with a specific site and willing to transform it architecture states a precise idea of space. The dialectic between statement of an idea and conditions of the context constitute polarities in which the interval of the project transformation is set. The settlement scene in its complexity becomes the reference material in which the geography, the history of sites, the landscape with its contradictions, the morphological characters, the leaning of soil are taken as materials generating a project...