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  Project Title

  Blade

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  Winning Firm
  
  

  Mino Caggiula Architects

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  Lead Designer
  
  

  Mino Caggiula

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  Awarded
  
  PLATINUM AWARD, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, Residential Multiple Units

• Project Link
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• Project Location
  Canobbio, Switzerland
• Project Status
  Completed
• Completion Date
  September, 2022
• Client
  Tognola Group
• General Contractor
  Tognola Group
• Photographer credit
  Paolo Volonté


• Architectural Firm
   
• Architect Firm / Studio Name
  Mino Caggiula Architects
• Lead Architect(s)
  Mino Caggiula
• About Firm
  Mino Caggiula Architects is a team made up of a close-knit group of architects with solid experience in designing projects from large scale to detail, as well as in managing the different stages of the process, from conception to execution. Each work represents a unique solution, that starts from the observation of the context, develops through careful analysis and experimentation, and arrives at its definition according to a multidisciplinary and constantly evolving approach.

The inspiration for this residential complex in Canobbio, Switzerland, comes from the art world, specifically from the works of the artist Richard Serra, evocative spatial sculptures built with metal sheets.
On a steep terrain between the vegetation and the lake, the idea was to "carve" the hillside by inserting curved corten steel blades which emerge from the landscape, becoming the hallmark of the project. The intervention in the space of Blade stimulates a close dialogue between construction and the surrounding context, integrating precise material choices with the nature of the site