Mondaini Roscani Architetti Associati
Architecture Firm Ancona / Italy
OFFICE
MR Architecture Studio has been established by Architects Gianluigi Mondaini and Gian Paolo Roscani and it has been operative
in Ancona since 1996. It treats projects related to architecture, city-planning, and interior design, showing a particular interest in
searching contemporary forms. The main projects, the awards for national and international contests, and the most relevant works,
have been published on books, magazines and catalogues. Among such publications we find a monograph printed by IDEA Architecture
Books, entitled Mondaini Roscani Architetti Associati 1996-2006.
CONCEPT
Our interest in architecture comes from its ability to transform a site, and its potential effects on the inhabitants of that same site.
Therefore we are stimulated by the optimistic concept of the project as act of progress, as tension to beauty, as “promise of happiness”.
Our passion for design derives from its challenging aspect, which leads us to propose valid solutions of quality, even when economical
and productive situations might suggest formalistic short cuts. Conceiving the architect as man linked to reality, to a physical present
made of exchanges, reasons, and analysis, our idea of design, while attempting to connect typological research and linguistic expressivity,
never leaves out of consideration the synergetic relationship with the contest.
Our design focuses on the architecture user, the city and its complexities, aiming to contribute to the building scenario in a way that
follows a suggestive expression used by Nouvel: “the historic city is built by layers of modernity, placed one on top of another, and
we cannot refuse to add our own”. The city not only becomes a contest in which we aim to produce modern and captivating shapes,
but also turns into a positive operative metaphor, being a complex, vital and many-sided organism. Its dynamic structure becomes
interesting, since it reveals itself as a summation of peculiarities, whereas superficial interpretations of the modern experience had
lead to gloomy and monotonous urbanities and architectures. Moreover, since “ a city, in order to become ideal, needs to be joyful”,
the building organisms, by which a city is formed, should represent a contribution to such necessity. Inspired by Merleau-Ponty, our
design attempts to remind that “things in front of us are not simple neutral objects which we contemplate; each one of them…generates
in us a favourable or unfavourable reaction, and this is the reason why a man’s taste, his character, and his attitude towards
the world, are reflected on the objects which surround him, on his favourite colours, on the places he chooses…”. Therefore, our
design aims also to express architecture as challenge to construct a more physical and emotional relationship between buildings and
users. The following samples of work suggest a multiform range of expressions, due also to the various meeting and confrontations
with personalities, colleagues, masters and friends, who have certainly stimulated and enriched our work, thank to their remarkable
culture.
- Address Viale della Vittoria n°14, 60123 Ancona | Italy
OFFICE MR Architecture Studio has been established by Architects Gianluigi Mondaini and Gian Paolo Roscani and it has been operative in Ancona since 1996. It treats projects related to architecture, city-planning, and interior design, showing a particular interest in searching contemporary forms. The main projects, the awards for national and international contests, and the most relevant works, have been published on books, magazines and catalogues. Among such publications we find a monograph...