X-TERN architects + urban planners
Submitted by X-TERN architects + urban planners on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 22:11
Location:
Italy
Founded:
2001
Website:
http://www.x-tern.it
Principal(s):
Salvo Di Silvestro
Marco de Fonzo
X-TERN Architects + Urban Planners, based in Merano, Italy, was founded in 2001 by Salvo Di Silvestro, Marco de Fonzo and Giorgio Gottardi in order to research the fields of architecture, urban planning, graphic design, web design and visual communication with the aim of "promoting" the key-role of the architect in contemporary society.
The "flesh" of architecture -- the materials, is another field being investigated by X-TERN. The firm also believes in the exploitation of the potentials of new digital technologies and their applications. Salvo Di Silvestro and Marco de Fonzo are the associated architects of the firm since October 2005.
Key projects:
X-36 DRACO, Study for the Portici, Bolzano, Italy, 2008
X-07 WOLF, 39 apartments building, Merano (BZ), Italy, 2002>2006
X-11 KOESSLER, 9 apartments building, Laives (BZ), Italy, 2003>2006
„ZOOM IN“, Study on the project for the new neighbourhood Casanova/Kaiserau, Bolzano, Italy, 2003
Masterproject for the Corporate Design of the “Servizio Strade della Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano” (Roads Maintenance Service of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano), collaboration with W. Pardatscher and M. Klammer, Bolzano, Italy, 2001
Key publications:
“RIHAN. CC 78”, Ed. RIHAN International Cultural Co., Ltd, Hong Kong, China 2008
“RIZOMA Biennale Giovani Architetti Italiani”, Catalogo Rizoma Biennale di Architettura Pontedera (Pisa), Tagete Edizioni, Pontedera, Pisa, 2008
“Omni2. Cooperative Housing”, Jeong, Kwang young, Ed. Archiworld Co. Ltd., Seoul, Korea, 2007
“1000xEuropean architecture”, Verlagshaus-Braun Berlin, 2006
„Südtirol Panorama“, Immobilien & Bauen, , Una CasaClima innovativa, Klimahaus mal anders, Nr. 1/06, 2006
Catalogue “Attraversamenti - UMBRIA 05”
Biennial Exhibition of contemporary Architecture
Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi (Perugia), Italy, 2005
“d’Architettura”, n. 24/2004, Motta Editore, 2004
“d’Architettura”, n. 22/2003, Motta Editore, 2003
Catalogue of the Exhibition “33 Stations for the Micro-Subway of Florence” (selected projects of the Competition for the design of the stations of the Micro-Subway in Florence, Italy), Palazzo Pitti, Rondò di Bacco, Florence, Italy (published by the “Committee for the Subway in Florence”), 2002
