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News • News • 10 Jul 2023
Marble employed as an object of contemplation in sobre GEMEG showroom transformation
In Carrara, Italy, architect Victor Vasilev has completed the transformation of an industrial building owned by the Tuscan company GEMEG into a showroom to display one of the most precious materials used in architecture and art – marble. A world leader in the extraction and commercialization of Carrara White, as well as Statuario and Calcutta marble, GEMEG has been working with this material since 1993, transforming it into today’s well-known trends in interior design.
Leo Torri
With a precise and technical volume, the building is consistent both inside and outside, with a prevalence of grays that shape a pure and essential container. The main façade is punctuated by a monumental colonnade that spans the b... More
Momento Beach
The willingness to create a volume with minimal impact was one of the bases for the intervention project: the effort to create a lightweight container, transparent, "camouflaged" in the context guided the volumetric and typological choice with the goal of achieving a result of remodeling of the environment. It is indeed a shaped parallelepiped, completely transparent on three sides and blind only on the back which houses the support services to the business place. The roof is flat. The main structure is designed in metal frames painted in sand color, in the same tone of color is the outer skin of the building in a horizontal metal slats, while the inside face is covered in natural wood that is also in horizontal slats. The empty spaces are... More