Nauta has been commissioned the development of a flexible housing prototype for the rising Chinese market, capable to be adapted to new family patterns. The flexible plan will allow different configurations for a unique basic type. Soon more news about this exciting project.
Nauta is part of a multidisciplinary team among 18 groups selected to redesign the masterplan for the city centre of Taranto, Italy. The project asked a multidisciplinary approach for the upgrade of the existing dilapidated housing heritage, historical architecture, unsustainable mobility, social and economic stagnation and landscape and energy inefficiency.
Team: Alvisikirimoto, NAUTA architecture & research, Deltastudio, Milan Ingegneria;
consultants: Antonio Calafati (urban regeneration and business development), Christian Iaione (sharing economy, public and urban policy), Francesca Franceschinelli (comunication and culture), Petra Blaise (landscape), Enrico Moretti (sustainable mobility), Giuseppina Caroppo (curatorial and art consultant), Cecilia d’ Ercole (archeology), Eloisa Susanna (energy), Costanza Lamantia (participated process), Cristina Alga (community engagement), Luigi Corvo (social and ecology economy, value chain)
It’s finally out!
Here is an abstract from ‘Visible and invisible Shenzhen’ by Su Wujun (2016), an amazing documentary on the birth and evolution of the metropolis, which collects interviews to many local and international colleagues engaging with Shenzhen. Here is part of the interview with Maurizio on the projects developed by NAUTA in China, with special focus on Shenzhen and its contrast between fast urbanization and local agriculture heritage.
After three years from its launch, the Moroccan government cancelled the competition for the new Archaeology and Natural Sciences Museum of Rabat. NAUTA presents its project, developed in cooperation with El Alami (local architects), Ingeco (structures), BCD progetti (MEP), Aresingegneria (lighting systems).
The plan of the main exhibition space is articulated into two main concentric squares, separated by a thick structural ring constituted by a double concrete wall that reaches the roof. The exhibition rings offer an ideal flexibility to allow multiple layouts for different curatorial strategies. In fact, with their very simple plan, they offer three exhibition types; from the external perimeter, to the central flexible space, crossing the ‘secret’ rooms hosted in the structural layer, the visitor reaches the central grand void, dominated by the biggest attractions. The secret rooms will host special objects that can benefit of artificial light, as well as offering a more intimate and concentrated experience of the artwork. The concentric system offers every visitor the freedom to choose his favorite visit, from chronological, thematic or partial.
27/09/2016
NAUTA at the Beijing Design Week 2016.
Maurizio delivered a lecture during the “International Human Settlements Developments Forum”.
Parallel to the Forum, an exhibition will display some of the recent projects from NAUTA in China.
27/08/2016
NAUTA participates to Chongqing workshop, propedeutic to the second phase development.
Watch the movie about the workshop here:
15/07/2016
Nauta is selected for the second phase of the International Competition for the Chongqing South Bank Residential Skyscraper Nambin 1. The project asks for the landscape design of 4 lobbies of the tower B from the complex.
NAUTA is shortlisted twice, for projects in Chongqing and Qingdao.Soon more news on these exciting challenges!
We are happy to announce that NAUTA is the winner of the Q city International Urban Design competition for the requalification of the Yantian district in Shenzhen.
NAUTA’s project promotes the redevelopment of the Dameisha Urban Village by adding a ‘diffused hotel’. By analyzing the local statistics about tourism trends and types, we propose to add the social layer of the informal tourist (backpackers, culture lovers, students), willing to mingle with local habits. This type is perfectly applicable to the local rental schemes, in which single owners or cooperatives manage the low budget rental units fort the unregistered floating population.
Tourists will be integrated into this system, while experiencing the real cultural background of Shenzhen. This strategy wills to contribute to the preservation of the Urban Villages from progressive demolition, by strengthening local economy and promoting the spontaneous improvement of public space and its sanitary conditions. Upon proven success of the model with the pilot project, it can be further exported to the 200 urban villages that are disseminated in the metropolitan area of Shenzhen.
Great audience for Maurizio’s lecture in Pordenone on ‘Cities and Climate Change’. Thanks to ‘Ordine degli Ingegneri’ ‘Ordine degli Architetti’ from Pordenone, APE- Agenzia per l’ energia del Friuli Venezia Giulia, Fondazione Ottone Zanolined Elena Dametto Onlus.