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The project idea is to reinterpret the block typology of the “palazzina”, introducing a logic distribution polarized by the invention of an unexpected view of the sea.
DeAmicis154 is not a seafront building, but it’s located in the second row.
This seemingly critical aspect informed the building's typological development; Like a plant seeking the sun, orients itself towards this piece of the Adriatic landscape, rising above the facing building.
The eastern view presents itself as a clear section on the landscape with cantilevered floors, like a sort of urban “trabocco”.
The white of the wall masses and floors is accompanied by the metallic gray of the parapets and the metal pillars on Via De Amicis, They’re slender pillars that like the trunks of long-limbed trees flank the building.
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The project is located in a portion of the urban fabric that effectively narrates this tumultuous growth; it is a neighborhood strongly marked by some admirable examples of post-war architecture in the city of Pescara.
On the north side there is the "round" building built in 1965 and designed by the architect Luigi Aligi. Also on the north side, adjacent to the "round" building, stands a building facing the sea characterized by an exposed reinforced concrete structure with strong overhangs; the work, dated 1977, is by the roman architect Francesco Berarducci.
On the west side, at the intersection between Via Regina Elena and Via De Amicis we find another building from the sixties, built in 1964 based on a design by the architect Enrico Summonte.
The building is designed according to principles of bio-architecture and eco-compatibility with particular attention to the following aspects:
DeAmicis154 is a light project.
It was designed as a strongly excavated volume whose balconies protect from summer sunshine and allow light to enter in winter, marking the façades with deep cuts of light and shadows.
At night the cuts of light are reversed, from the interior towards the city, interpreting the character of the Adriatic night city.
A centripetal design of blades of light whose design is inspired by the theme of the "presentosa", an Abruzzo jewel of seventeenth-century origin.
The organization of the spaces follows an "egg strategy":
The central nucleus (apartments) is entirely surrounded by an open space of variable dimensions (the albumen) which constitute an open circular crown, an internal/external space which connotes an "Adriatic" lifestyle.
Sea, light, air. these are the materials with which we built it.
Giovanni Vaccarini, Architect cum laude at the “G.D'Annunzio” University of Pescara.
Postgraduate studies in landscape architecture at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture in Ontario, Canada.
PhD in architectural composition.
He was a adjunct professor in architectural composition IV at the Faculty of Architecture of the "D'Annunzio" University of Pescara.
Projects and realizations over the years have received awards and acknowledgments,
winner of several national and international architecture competitions, his projects and writings are featured in the main sector publications.
GVA is one of the Italian firms selected for the World Atlas of 21st Century Architecture - PHAIDON_London and to exhibit in the Italian Pavilion at the XVII International Architecture Biennale of Venice.
Curious by nature, he combines cultural, artistic, civil and economic enterprises.
He lives and works in Pescara.
