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Filippo Caprioglio Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Home PE3 Residential House in Architecture, Building and Structure Design

The international grand jury of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Filippo Caprioglio for architecture, building and structure design

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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2021 /DesignNewswire/ Home PE3 Residential House by Filippo Caprioglio, designed for Filippo Caprioglio - Caprioglio Architects, has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The recognition forms part of the 2020 - 2021 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

The Silver A' Design Award Explained

The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.

About Home PE3 Residential House

Home PE3 is a residential house located in Cittadella, Padua, Italy. The design responds to the brick fortified walls of the historic medieval city. Two large walls clad in exposed brick define the form of the building and protect the interior toward the garden. A custom version of the MAAX brick was produced with a historic brick company and installed with a ventilation air gap, creating a breathing wall. The footprint is about 500 square meters, with a ground floor, a first floor and a basement for garage and cellar. The interior spaces are flexible and can change as the family grows.

About Filippo Caprioglio

Filippo Caprioglio is a polyhedric and talented designer that works on multiple scale level, from tiny industrial objects, to large public buildings. His research is focused on the building spaces related to the human scale.From the great publics complexes to the private building, the work of Filippo and his firm Caprioglio Architects has fixed, in its temporal distance, episodes that have characterized the territory of belongings and enriched the research, technical and formal, of which the contemporary architecture it has made the own flag.

Award Record

This recognition makes Filippo Caprioglio a winner of 3 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2016 - 2017 and the 2020 - 2021 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.

About the A' Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award

The A' Architecture Design Award is an international architectural design competition recognizing good architectural designs by best architects worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to architectural design studios, building contractors, structural engineering firms and architecture and design consultants from all countries. Typical entries include skyscrapers, museums, residential buildings, commercial complexes, educational institutions and religious structures. The awarded architectural projects are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/architecture

About A' Design Award & Competition

Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project
Home PE3 Residential House
Function
Residential House
Category
Architecture, Building and Structure Design
Discipline
Spatial Design
Industry
Architecture
Colors
Light Slate Gray, Dark Slate Gray, Slate Gray, Cornflower Blue and Light Steel Blue
Images
5
Client
Filippo Caprioglio - Caprioglio Architects

The Recognition

Laureate
Filippo Caprioglio
Country
Italy
Recognition
Silver A' Design Award
Edition
2020 - 2021
Design ID
#114399

Credits

Team
Arch. Costantino Paparella, Ing. Edi Morandin, MEP – P.I. Roberto Marcon - Fabio Mottes, Arch Pamela Nichele, Z Costruzioni - Manuel Zanon, Mattoni MAAX SanMarco di Terreal Italia, Ideal Work, Cetos Sistemi per l’Architettura and Sundar Italia
Image Credits
Photographer Paolo Monello, Home PE3, 2020.

Design Details

Unique Properties
The aim of the project is the creation of a new artifact intended to set a dialogue with the surrounding context, specifically with what the medieval walls of Cittadella represent both in terms of material and function, in particular that of the protection of its interior. This desire and the program established with the client led to the creation of a building characterized by two important walls covered with exposed brick to define the elements making up the conformation of the building.
Inspiration
The project was inspired by the context and in particular by the brick fortified walls of the historic medieval city of Cittadella, in Italy. The choice of using brick as the main material is underlined by the use of it also inside the house as a distinctive element for all the the levels of the building. Furthermore, the score of the openings on the brick facades are deliberately in assonance with the elements that characterize the surrounding walls of the historic city.
Research
The research started by analyzing all he possible brick cladding technology and energy saving possibility throught the use of green materials. The goal was to obtain a great confort and and "easy" constructive system that will guarantee a rapid, clean and efficient construction method. We, with the Client, strongly believed in this sustainable approach and the results, now that house in inhabitant, are already evident in the energy and consumption saving.
Challenge
The creative process for this project followed two well defined path that, at the end, converged in one unique result. The dialogue with the medieval walls of the historic city of Cittadella and the will of a sustainable green architecture.Those were the two main challenge that were developed in the research to accomplish the final result.
Realization and Technology
For this project, with the historic brick Company Terreal Italia SanMarco, we designed a custom version of the MAAX brick that is the main material used for this house. It was installed with the most advance cladding techniques leaving a ventilation air gap between the structure and the bricks to make a breathing wall.
Operation and Interaction
The house offers very flexible spaces that can vary in accordance to the need of the users through the time and the grow of the family members.
Project Duration and Location
The project of Home PE3 from the design to the final realization took almost three years, from 2018 to 2020. The house is located in Cittadella, Padua in Italy
Specifications
The footprint of the house is approx. 500 square meters. it has ground and first floor level and the basement for garage ad cellar.
Keywords
Architecture, Context, Cittadella, Italy, Italian architecture, Interior design, Vertical Garden, Sustainability, Bricks

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