Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: 25 Verde
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Collection:
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Archivision Base to Module 13
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Preferred Title:
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25 Verde
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Alternate Title:
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Condominio 25 Verde
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Image View:
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Detail, on Via Correggio, trees and trailing plants in the steel tubs
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Creator:
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Luciano Pia (Italian architect, born 1960)
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Location:
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site: Turin, Piedmont, Italy
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Location Note:
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Via Gabriele Chiabrera, 25
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GPS:
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+45.045351+7.680026
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Date:
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2007-2012 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Twenty-first century
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Work Type 1:
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apartment house
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Classification:
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Architecture and City Planning
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Material:
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Corten steel; concrete; larch (wood) shingles; plant material
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Technique:
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construction (assembling); gardening
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Measurements:
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7,500 m2 (area)
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Subjects:
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architecture; botanical; contemporary (1960 to present); Green roofs (Gardening); Housing; Sustainable buildings; vertical gardening; heat pumps; geothermal energy
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Description:
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The entire 6-story apartment block is conceived as a "living forest"; the Corten steel support pillars are fabricated to look like branching trees. Large steel tubs like huge flowerpots hold 150 trees on the irregular, staggered outer terraces. Another 50 trees are planted in the central courtyard garden. The apartment units, built from steel and concrete, are clad with over one million larch shingles. All but a few of the apartments have two balconies, one facing into the green courtyard, the other out to the street. There are 63 residential units in the building, all of different design. The top floor is covered with private green roofs. (Source: ArchDaily; http://www.archdaily.com/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Thirteen
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Identifier:
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1A1-PIA-VERDE-A20
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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