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Anna Maritano

  • Site : basement15.com
  • Adresse : via San Rocco 15 20135 Milan
Anna Maritano lives and works in Milan. Since 2006 she formed her own architecture studio in Milan. She has work closely together with Giulia Griotti, to whom she is linked by a twenty-year friendship. Together with them, Angelo Lorenzi shared national and international projects and competitions. Currently they employs 3-4 collaborators who are working on projects for public buildings, private houses and urban development. A sort of small workshop on living, wher craftsmanship and reflections on the city intertwine. Anna Maritano studied architecture at Politecnico di Torino. She was awarded in 1994-1996 Pensionnaire pour l’architecture, at the Académie de France à Rome. She obtained a Ph.D. title in 1999. She was an adjunct professor at the Università di Genova Architecture School from 1999 to 2009, where he held teaching and research. She was awarded the Leone di Pietra - in the 10. International Architecture Exhibition - Biennale di Architettura in Venice - with a project on Pantelleria, a tourist harbour (Marino Narpozzi, chef) In parallel to the project activity, she has done lectures, lessons and critiques at Italian and foreign Universities, Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Torino, Università di Bologna, Università di Genova, University of São Paulo, Brazil. She carried out critical activity trough exhibitions and texts about Italian and international contemporary architects: Ignazio Gardella (Electa), Gino Levi Montalcini (Domus), Luigi Caccia Dominioni (Area), Uwe Schroder (Aion). In 2019 she edited (in collaboration) the Marino Narpozzi's critical writings, entitled “Conversazioni in-disciplinate sull’archietttura”, (Aion edizioni). In 2020 she published an essay “Envois e Académie de France à Rome: il disegno fra maniera e invenzione”, (NElac, USP, Brazil). she is associate with Giulia Griotti Angelo Lorenzi and Filippo Mascaretti

A house that resembles a house - Apartment house in Milan

Client: Private
Size: 1.500 m2 - 15 apartments
Status: Competion by invitation - 2008 - 1st Prize
Development project 2010-2016
Complete 2019
Keystaff: Anna Maritano, Giulia Griotti, Angelo Lorenzi, Chiara Occhipinti, Paolo Molteni.

The building is located on the border of the old city centre of Milan. It overlooks a street characterised by early 20th century houses with a discontinuous alignment. The street is built by episodes, setbacks of volumes generating small gardens that become an element of mediation between houses and city.
The interior of the block is occupied by large green areas and a beautiful swimming pool from the 1930s.

The project envisages the construction of a unitary block, made up of two parts arranged as an L; the first is aligned to the adjacent house, creating an harmonious effect with the rest of the street. The second element is instead located in a backward position with respect to the road. The two parts, together with a low boundary wall, create a small courtyard, a kind of patio with trees, which organizes the driveway and the pedestrian entrances.
The facades are also differentiated. The front facing the street, orderly and rational, is related to an urban and social idea of construction of the city, with a regular sequence of openings. The front facing the swimming pool is composed according to a more open logic, with large continuous balconies. A search for a non-mimetic but elegant relationship of continuity and familiarity with the urban whole.
The building materials are simple: white plaster, wooden windows and shutters, iron railings. A band of brickwork defines the ground connection of the building, constructing the skirting of the building in close relationship with the street.
The building appears as a house, our elementary idea of home. This is an image with which we believe we could conclude, or begin, any discussion of architecture. A house that resembles a house.

Reference:
Federico Bucci - Full Professor in History of Architecture - Vice Rector of Politecnico di Milano/Mantova Campus

Apartment house, via Lattuada 9, Milan:
The house belongs to a "Milanese" tradition into residential buildings, rooted in the work of Gardella, Caccia Dominioni, Asnago and Vender. This research topic is based on the city, on the will to continue its features of urbanity and sociality, but it also introduces unexpected variations and points of view. Yet the house also reveals a peculiar idea of living, which looks to contemporary northern European architecture. As an everyday domestic act, in which the paths (the entrance promenade, the relationship between the street patio and the back garden) are measured on the inhabitant use and the forms are familiar and recognizable.

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