EDICOLA is a temporary pavilion designed for the cultural association Line Culture on the occasion of Bergamo Brescia Italian Capitals of Culture 2023. A totemic element with a square base 2x2 metres and a height of 6 metres, built in Piazza Tebaldo Brusato in Brescia. When closed EDICOLA becomes a landmark within the square, a true cultural “stronghold”; when it is open, however, it indicates the activity of the cultural association Line Culture. EDICOLA reinterprets the role of the city’s newsstands: it distributes culture, but through another action: the production of inclusive cultural events. The structure, made of scaffoldings, galvanized iron, and polycarbonate, is designed to be easily assembled and disassembled in several locations around the city: a wandering cultural “stronghold”.

KURO is the renovation project of a clothing shop located in the heart of the historic city centre of Brescia. The project consists of a single action: the grafting of a metal cage structure, anchored to the existing walls, which organises the interior space, while acting as a display element. The cage defines three spaces: the main display area, the one dedicated to the changing rooms and, finally, the one behind it which includes the storage rooms and a service restroom. The idea behind the project, and of Kuro's philosophy at the same time, is the idea of the 'continuous construction site': a space in which everything is evolving and changing: a flexible space, capable of transforming and reinventing itself according to display requirements. To support this idea, even the materials used to build the shop belong to the imaginary of the 'unfinished'.

Client: Kuro, Patrizia Armanti
Architecture: Associates Architecture (Nicolò Galeazzi, Martina Salvaneschi, Claudia Crotti, Paola Federici, Nicole Tombini)
Suppliers: Alessandro Bonzi, Foresti distribuzione laterizi, Giacomo Portesi, Sbrini Nicola impianti elettrici, Stefano Spedicato, TaiJet, Eric Zanotti
Photography: Associates Architecture