점근선 아키텍처
アシンプトートアーキテクチャ

Polo del Lusso e della Cultura

source: source: asymptotenet
Adjacent to the Bergamo International Airport there in Azzano San Paolo, Asymptote has designed a mixed-use project that comprises of a new luxury shopping center, a new 300-room hotel, two midsized office towers, a mixed-use entertainment facility and a body augmentation health clinic.

The proposal calls for an active cultural and commercial destination located on the periphery of the City of Bergamo and connected physically to the adjacent international airport. The entire complex of 120,000sqm builds on the expansive exposure of the site from the vantage point of vehicles traveling by way of the adjacent autostrada as well as from the traffic generated by the many aircraft arriving and departing from the nearby Orio al Serio Airport.

The design concept for this complex sets out to create a new urban landscape by utilizing and incorporating a number of volumetric components in a unique compositional arrangement comprised of both buildings and open spaces. While viewed from the air or from a passing vehicle, the surface patterns and the modulated profiles of the various buildings are seen and experienced as a complete dynamic ensemble, at once a harmonious composition as well as a collection of discrete forms. This new architectural language for large-scale commercial complexes is critical to the design intention where such a place need not be simply a collection of generic boxes and containers as is usually the case in this area. At grade level this strategy translates into a substantially more integrated relationship between interior and exterior spaces offering an enhanced experience for the visitors. The new master plan and its constituent parts is a gesture of elegance and sophistication on the outskirts of a beautiful and historic city in Northern Italy.
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source: architizer
Asymptote’s proposal for a new master plan for an area south of Orio al Serio International Airport, located near the historic and majestic city of Bergamo in Northern Italy, calls for an intricate complex inspired by the rolling planar aspects of the region’s countryside. The master plan is a meandering and intriguingly articulated collection of surfaces that seem to have evolved naturally from the adjacent farmlands. The manifestation of the Italian rural landscape in built form is an elegant solution to the real and commercial need for mid- to large-scale development projects such as this one. The scheme calls for powerful, yet subtle, new architectural works placed on an urban plinth and pursues a quasi-urban notion of occupancy where the interior and exterior spaces are fluid and transitional from one another. Overall, the Azzano-San Paolo Master Plan is a signal for the possibility of such developments to be aesthetically compelling and architecturally dynamic.
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source: asymptotenet
Founded in 1989 by Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture, New York city based Asymptote Architecture is a leading international architecture practice that has distinguished itself globally with intelligent, innovative and visionary projects that include building designs, master planning projects art installations, virtual reality environments as well as interiors and industrial design.

​Asymptote’s approach to utilizing digital tools and technologies, contemporary theory, innovative building practices and advancements in engineering solutions and environmental sustainability have afforded the practice a broad and powerful perspective on all aspects related to architectural building design and city planning.

Completed projects include the Yas Viceroy Hotel in Abu Dhabi ( 2010) and ARC Multimedia Theater in Daegu South Korea (2013), the HydraPier cultural pavilion in the Netherlands (2004), 166 Perry condominiums (2008), Alessi HQ (2004-2012) and the Carlos Miele flagship store in New York city (2006) and the Univers Theaters in Aarhus Denmark (1998). Other key unbuilt projects include an award winning design for a luxury condominium tower ( StrataTower), in Abu Dhabi, an Eco-Cultural Master Plan for Baku, Azerbaijan, commercial office towers in Budapest, Hungary, and the World Business Center Solomon Tower in Busan, South Korea.

Asymptote has also designed important master planing projects for Bergamo italy, Prague the Czech Republic, Monterrey Mexico and Penang Malaysia. Presently Asymptote is completing buildings in Gent Belgium for the ING bank HQ, two office towers in ZhenZou China and two connected cutting edge residential towers in Seoul Korea (Velo Towers).

Asymptote Architecture has received numerous prestigious awards including the AIA NY chapter award, Middle Eastern Architecture Awards and Le Grand Prix de l’Architecture in Paris, as well as received significant awards for achievement within the discipline such as the 2004 Frederic Keisler Prize in recognition of their exceptional contributions to the progress and merging of art and architecture.
The work of Asymptote is part of a number of private and museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Netherlands Institute of Architecture (NAI), the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Frac Centre in Orléans, France and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York. The practices work has been the subject of 3 monographs and is widely published internationally in professional journals as well as the general press.

Collaboration

Asymptote was founded on the notion of collaboration and prides itself on its ability to work in partnership with the client and its organization one the hand and with a strong multi-disciplinary team of talented professionals and experts on the other. Asymptote believes that collaboration is an engine that drives creative solutions and fosters a team-based approach that supports this process and enables the achievement of extraordinary results.

Culture, Technology and Society

The inspiration for Asymptote’s work comes from a gaining an understanding of the Client’s needs and goals informed by cultural, technological and social dimensions with both a local and global perspective. We are firmly committed to the belief that architecture can successfully achieve specific client and project goals while creating meaningful experiences to a large and diverse audience.

Think Tank

Asymptote pursues challenging and engaging projects that are often without precedent. Asymptote is not only an innovative architecture firm, but also a design “think tank”. With a multi-scale and multi-disciplinary approach we are able to assume a fresh perspective and generate creative solutions by thinking outside the box.
Innovation

Asymptote is consistently seeking cutting-edge materials, techniques and technologies for its projects as well as innovative approaches to issues concerning sustainability, the environment and the integration of technology with architecture. The firm’s ability to venture into new territories is evident in its designs for projects from around the globe where it is leading the way in 21st century approaches to building optimization and construction.

Environmental Design and Sustainability

Asymptote’s design intent is to employ best practices and to approach environmental quality and sustainability from the ground up rather than as a checklist. In collaboration with our clients and expert consultants we carefully evaluate the unique attributes of each project to make informed choices to optimize the design by integrating the most suitable sustainable design strategies.

Future

In a rapidly changing world, Asymptote believes in using knowledge acquired both empirically through experience and observation as well as through research and ongoing professional development. We believe that the of combination curiosity, critical thinking and creativity spawns the kind of inspiring architecture and urbanism that brings new experiences and meaning to life today and that will propel us into the future.
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source: archilovers
Torri, cupole e strutture dalle linee morbide e arrotondate, coperte da un lenzuolo bianco disteso sul terreno. È così che si presenta il futuro Polo del Lusso e della Cultura destinato a sorgere nei pressi dello scalo di Orio al Serio.

Il progetto interessa, nel territorio comunale di Azzano, l’area a sud del centro commerciale Orio Center, e prevede la realizzazione di un complesso multifunzionale terziario e direzionale di 148.000 metri quadri – che comprende anche una Galleria del Lusso, con prestigiosi marchi di abbigliamento, accessori e prodotti tipici, ed un planetario.
In parte forata, la singolare copertura lascerà spazio ad ampie zone verdi ed aperture studiate per l’illuminazione naturale degli spazi commerciali e delle aree per il tempo libero.

L’intervento prevede la realizzazione di 90mila metri quadrati di aree a destinazione commerciale.
Ulteriori 58mila metri quadrati accoglieranno un albergo, una clinica sanitaria, un edificio a destinazione direzionale, ed un complesso a destinazione terziaria e ricreativa con cinema multisala, centro congressi, spazi per mostre, concerti e sfilate.
È inoltre prevista la realizzazione di opere infrastrutturali funzionali al nuovo insediamento: un nuovo svincolo a 2 livelli sulla strada statale 591 (compresi gli adeguamenti alla carreggiata e gli innesti alla viabilità locale), insieme ad altri interventi di adeguamento della viabilità locale (una rotatoria sulla strada provinciale 115 “Vecchia Cremasca” oltre alla formazione della doppia carreggiata sulla strada provinciale 116).
Importanti interventi di compensazione e mitigazione ambientale contribuiranno infine a fluidificare il traffico in uscita dall’ A4, a migliorare l’accessibilità all’ aeroporto di Orio e a potenziare il sistema delle piste ciclabili.

Bergamo, Italy— Asymptote Architecture’s design for the Azzano-San Paolo Master Plan, a 100,000-square-meter commercial development, was recently unveiled at the MAPIC international retail real estate conference in Cannes, France. The site for the new master plan is an area south of Orio al Serio International Airport near the historic city center of Bergamo in Northern Italy. The master plan, as conceived by Asymptote, is a meandering and intriguingly articulated collection of surfaces that seem to have evolved naturally from the adjacent farmlands and calls for powerful, yet subtle, new architectural works placed on an urban plinth. Overall, the Azzano-San Paolo Master Plan is a signal for the possibility of such developments to be aesthetically compelling and architecturally dynamic.

The manifestation of the Italian rural landscape in built form is an elegant solution to the real and commercial need for mid- to large-scale development projects such as this one. The site is divided into various precincts accommodating cinemas, a planetarium, shopping and retail centers, medical facilities, hotels and office complexes, altogether forming a balanced and harmonic symbiotic relationship to the surrounding airport, roadways, rural context and already completed developments nearby. The surfaces of the master plan climb in subtle slopes upwards, allowing for the programs beneath to be adequately planned and programmed to include places to walk and enter the various buildings from above, and to be used as open public spaces, amphitheaters and cafés that are open to the sky and surroundings.

Beneath these planar surfaces are urban spaces influenced by the great Italian tradition of colonnaded public streets such as those found in Bergamo and especially Bologna. These “undercuts” provide sheltered, dignified promenades, public sidewalks, retail frontage and so on, while also providing a means of defining public streets versus the private realm, a process, through architecture, of humanizing the streetscape and allowing people to experience a new and modern urban environment that, although drawn from the past, is firmly and precisely centered on the future.

The project’s clean lines, articulated roofs capes and surfaces, dignified public streets and parks, as well as the playful nature of the architectural forms that spring from the planar surfaces, all comprise a new approach to this scale of development in areas and locales within the Italian context where people need a sense of place and purpose that is not solely tied to the past and its powerful presence in this country, but provide a glimpse of a future where efficiency, commerce and culture comingle in a dignified place that is wholly new and progressive, without being empty and devoid of meaning.
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source: architectorua
Специалисты американского бюро Asymptote Architecture стали авторами грандиозного проекта, который был реализован в 2012 году в Южной Корее. Мультимедийный павильон ARC – River Culture Multimedia Theatre стал одним из четырех речных павильонов в рамках всемирной выставки World Expo 2012, которые демонстрировали общественные инициативы по сохранению экосистемы рек Han, Nakdong, Geum и Yeong San.

Специалисты Asymptote Architectureразработали чашеобразную структуру, оформленную по фасаду пластиковыми панелями ETFE, которые образовали интересную “стеганую” фактуру и серебристый оттенок стен.

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