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The unMonasTery: The space and co-design in MaTera

MaTera, 31/10/2013

The name derives from cliff, rocks, stone, ......The first document dates from 1204 and mentions the word “Sassi” meaning “stony

neighborhood inhabited”. The Sassi of Matera are a set of high quality both architectural and urban planning .They

are the expression about living in the cave, an example of urban structure unique in the world heritage site. They are the final result of a long and complex process, which has developed over time in the presence of particular conditions, geo-environmental and social.

The houses are overlap, they are placed one above the other without a definite order, different for shape and size, some of the front, the other side, often organized into neighborhoods, creating a fantastic vision.

In the Sassi you discover the absurd: you walk on the roofs of the houses;“Li morti stanno sopra li vivi” e, “il cielo con le stelle sta sotto li piedi di homini et non

sopra la testa”. (Verricelli). [“The dead are above the alive and the sky with the stars are under the feet of the men and not over their head”]

The Sassi have been developed in the two karst valleys at the foot of Civita. They are calcareous material, furrowed by the waters of two streams, covered by dense vegetation, they were areas of expansion outside the walls of the city.

During the prehistoric era, Hellenistic and Roman times, they were sparsely inhabited. In the Middle Ages the population grew and pour out over the walls of the city, on one side, near the port of Civita, appeared the “Casale”, on the other side appeared the neighborhood “Pianella” in Sasso Caveoso, where, in 1500, was born a third neighborhood called Casalnuovo.

There was another development with the creation of the Borgo on the eastern shore of the Sasso Barisano.

Over time, the various districts expanded and merged together assuming that characteristic intricate aspect. Over the years they increasingly crowded, and people began to use the rooms for services: stables, cellars, neviere, woodsheds, tanks that did not have the conditions of habitability.

This created an untenable situation for health and hygiene reasons, which led to the emptying From 1950, with the transfer of the population in the neighborhoods specially constructed.

Today we are facing a phase of recovery and reuse of the Sassi for the purpose receptive, restaurant, cultural, craft and private.

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Historical Analysis: the Sassi of Matera

unMonastery is located in an area defined Casale, dating from the medieval period (XI - XIV c.).

As we can see in the plan, the urban structure of the city was made up of the feudal Civita (political center-directional) and surrounding casali that were poorly connected with each other and with the upper town.

The farmhouse is located on the slope of Barisan, at the foot of the city walls, on the edge of the road with steps leading down with a bend towards the bridge of S. Anthony Abbot, and climbed over the stream, return to S. Augustine (before William S.).

The Casali were groups of houses, gardens and other rooms mostly hypogea, in the semi-rural character, or not fully urban, located around a religious settlement rocky and connected by a series of paths that from Civita walled down to the valley floor, bypassing the stream with bridges, and return the opposite slope in the direction of the plains and surrounding hills.

Torrente

Cinta muraria

Collegamenti

Insediamenti religiosi

Casali

Il Casale

LEGENDA

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Historical Analysis

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System of rainwater collection: the Sassi of Matera

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Natural lighting system: the Sassi of Matera

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“Vicinato” spontaneus joining system - the Sassi of Matera

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Site Analysis

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State of Art - Ground Floor

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Photographic Survey - Ground Floor

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State of Art - First Floor

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Photographic Survey - First Floor

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Project - Ground Floor

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Project - Ground Floor

Working Area

Spaces for sharing

Spaces for meditation“Pensatoio”

Kitchen and Dining room

Bathroom

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Project - Ground Floor - Kitchen and dining room

Cooking Solution

Sustainable Furniture

Resealable

Conviviality

Critter Mobile Kitchen by ELIA MANGIA

Flow Kitchen Studio Gorm FOLDABLE KITCHEN by David Derksen

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Project - Ground Floor - Space for sharing and meditation

Thinking area

Low cost materials

Sharing area

Green elements

Faber Academy Box (Pordenone) by Andrea Paoletti

EX FADDA , San Vito dei Normanni (Br)

‘AOL offices’ by studio O+A, Palo Alto, California

Lego PMD by Rosan Bosch and Rune Fjord - Denmark

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Project - Ground Floor - Working area

Transportable furniture

Un-conventional workspaces

Various works Laboratory

HUB - Milan

Atelierhouse by Harry Thaler Museion in Bolzano

HUB - Amsterdam

Mediterranean Design FestivalunMonastery

Project - First Floor

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Project - First Floor

Bedroom

Filter Area

Bathroom

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Project - First Floor - Filter Area

Reuse and recycle Relaxing area

Hotel Superbude by DREIMETA Armin Fischer - Hamburg

‘AOL offices’ by studio O+A, Palo Alto, California

The HUB - San Francisco

Google Campus by Jump Studios - London

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Project - First Floor - Bedroom

Contemporary nomadism

Unconventioal materials

Integrated system

Carro Lungi by La Clinica del Design

Basecamp by Atelier Takagi for Kvadrat Textile Storage, series London by Meike Harde

Minimal Living Cube with Versatile Furniture by Ania Rosinke & Maciej Chmara exhibition : Nomadic Furniture 3.0 – New Liberated Living? - MAK, Vienna

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Project - First Floor - Bedroom

Self - construction

Handmade design

Transportable forniture

o bigode do rato, Lisboa Atelierhouse by Harry Thaler Museion in Bolzano

Atelierhouse by Harry Thaler Museion in BolzanoThe Independente Hostel & Suites in Lisbon

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Moodboard

ECO AND BIO

The spaces will be integrated

with plants (vegetable gardens,

ornamental plants..) that will

have not only the function

of adornment of the spaces,

but also of improvement of

psychological well-being of

inhabitants of Unmonastery.

CO-DESIGN

The Unmonastery’s space

and the furniture will be

designed involving its users

actively through processes

of “bottom-up”.

SELF-CONSTRUCTION

The users of Unmonastery

will participate in the

construction of their space

with the contribution of

their own job.

REUSE AND RECYCLE

The spaces will be set by

reusing and recycling unused

objects and materials.

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Moodboard

SHARING SPACES

Spaces dedicated to the relationships

between several subjects in a view of

co-working and co-living. Connections

among people will not take place only

within the area of the Unmonastery,

but also from the inside towards the

outside and vice versa.

ModUlARITy ANd REvERSIbIlITy

Modular elements that provide

to the users of Unmonastery

freedom of configuration and

flexibility in the use of spaces.

PERSoNAl SPACES

Place usable by one or

at most by two subjects,

created for the care of

itself, the decompression

and intimate and personal

relationships.

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Moodboard - Local Materials

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Moodboard - Traditions

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Moodboard - Traditions

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Moodboard - Color Study

crediTs

Project and design

Arch. Addolorata Capozza

Arch. Giuseppe Cerabona

Arch. Antonio Elettrico

Arch. luigi Nucera

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