location: Torino, IT
when: 2021
status: completed
A shaded colored wooden structure to accommodate the Casa del Quartiere activities, in San Salvario, Turin, Italy.
The project has taken care the various parameters necessary to respect the various associative, pedagogical, recreational and commercial activities present within the CdQ.
Realized through a workshop open to the population, the project was financed through public fundraising.
Project by GRRIZ / Luigi GRECO & Mattia Paco RIZZI with the precious help of Giulia CERRATO, Martina CAVIGGIOLO, Jacopo BERNATTI.
location: Agrigento
when: 08.2019
status: completed
xXx is a site-specific art installation that mix sculpture and light design. The project was designed as the main stage for the Electro FestiValle 2019 and stems from the collaboration between GRRIZ studio, who designed the architecture and built the wooden structure, and ZMBT studio, who took care of the Visual design and Light engineering.
The installation is inspired by the reflections and night glows of the sea, natural scenography that gently host and embrace the event. Thanks to the light visuals, the structure becomes alive in a plastic weave of broken lines that deconstruct the main frame into a multitude of geometric possibilities creating a deep symbiosis between the music and the surrounding environment.
Project team
design and construction / grriz
light and visuals / zmbt
Construction team
GRRIZ
luca zambuto
cristiano pesca
aron piraneo
with:
MAA Atelier, Loxia Socia, Le Nid Poule.
Common space for experimentation and sharing of knowledge and know-how within the Gratte-Ciel Outdoor Laboratory in Villeurbanne, FR.
Meta: a place of knowledge.
Gathering around the will to make live other ways of constituting the public space, we also wish to make of this space a place of transmission of knowledge: we thus planned events on social questions like the manufacture of the City, the self-construction, the re-use of building materials, the place of the living and the Nature in the City and many other questions still!
This place of knowledge will also be a space of experimentation of all kinds: artistic, cultural, social, scientific for example.
Meta: a place of know-how.
The workshop space is organized around two containers to store and secure materials and an outdoor space for making, building and creating.
The containers will house the Loxia Socia association's bricothèque and the Mattia Paco Rizzi Workshop's (AMPR) prototyping equipment. By joining the association, you will have access to tools and materials according to the solidarity rates that we are setting up.
It is a space open to the public where you will be able to benefit from advice in architecture by professionals and/or experienced builders.
Here too, it is a space of transmissions since the competences of each are put at the service of all.
https://www.assometa.fr/
photo © christophelecardronnel.fr
photo © christophelecardronnel.fr
photo © christophelecardronnel.fr
photo © christophelecardronnel.fr
Within the context of the "Abitare la vacanza" Architecture Festival and the Petites Folies School, we had the privilege of intervening in the magical territory of Colletta di Castelbianco in the province of Savona, Italy.
In Colletta, the design process focused on engaging with the existing village and deciding whether to embrace or challenge it. Following Giancarlo De Carlo's spirit, we chose to adopt an anarchic approach and develop an autonomous language starting from the form. The triangular shape, contrasting with De Carlo's rectangular housing units, was selected to reclaim the vertical dimension. Although the Genoese architect referred to the village's structure as a "carapace," it is undeniably composed of vertical towers that horizontally spread, akin to an organism, colonizing the rock. Building upon this archetype, we designed three wooden towers, each serving a distinct function, defining an intimate space from which to catch glimpses of the surrounding landscape and emphasizing the concept of a hearth as a communal space for gathering. The three variations on the same theme also provide new panoramic viewpoints towards Colletta. Thus, "3Torri" (Three Towers) becomes a tangible symbol in the territory, offering the local and temporary community a public space fully immersed in nature.
The project, entirely constructed using locally sourced chestnut wood, was conceived and realized in collaboration with students from design, architecture, and engineering backgrounds hailing from both France and Italy.
The black elements that characterize parts of the intervention were achieved entirely through a magical chemical process called wood ebonization, using natural methods.
Design and build:
Juliette Beuzon, Célestine Labrousse, Jade Turzo, Francesca Viani, Olivia Travers, Solène Vandeplanque Nils Freyermuth, Aliénor Morel, Sara Grandi, Théodore Divine and GRRIZ ( Luigi Greco + Mattia Paco Rizzi ).
photo © Olivia Travers
photo © Olivia Travers
photo © Alessandro Toscano
photo © Olivia Travers
photo © Olivia Travers
photo © Nils Freyermuth
photo © Olivia Travers
photo © Aliénor Morel
photo © Olivia Travers
photo © Olivia Travers
photo © Aliénor Morel
photo © Nils Freyermuth
photo © Nils Freyermuth
photo © Nils Freyermuth
photo © Emanuele Pïccardo
photo © Emanuele Pïccardo
photo © Emanuele Pïccardo
location: Lyon, France
when: 2021
status: completed
Mattia Paco Rizzi from GRRIZ and twelve students from Strate École de Design have designed this urban conviviality device.
Seeking to encourage the practice of teleworking and to develop its anchoring in the public space, this structure is part of the dynamic of experimentation of new uses of the Cité des Halles, tending to prefigure the city of tomorrow.
Realized through a workshop of self-building lasting 6 days, the installation was completely made by the students themselves.
The project was designed to allow participants to understand by doing the various steps that make up a micro architectural structure.
project: GRRIZ
construction team: Mattia Paco RIZZI, ANDO Shunji , MONCENIS Anthelme, NICOLAS Erwann, BLANC Lola, ROURE Lucile , FRANCISCO Juliette, VALLAT Maxime, MEASSON Martin, IMBERT Thalia, DESJOBERT Théophile, JEAN-PROST Clara, BALMES Thomas
location: Matera, Italy
when: 07.2017
status: completed
materials: glued laminated timber GL24, fiberglass roof panels
dimensions: covered surface 100 square meters
Origagri is a pavilion to host the activities of the Agoragri association in a public urban park in Matera, South Italy, with a synergic vegetable garden, a straw theater, family gardens. The design of the pavilion is based on the origami technique, optimizing constructional phases and assembling on only human strength. The hexagonal plant opens outwards with 6 timpani which allow to create a large and bright space. The pavilion is made of laminated wood of fir and fir boards. The design of the structure is rigorous and geometric and follows the star shape that generates the construction of the hex.
Project team: GRRIZ, agrinetural with the support of fondazione Matera 2019
Construction team: GRRIZ, Agrinetural, Lorenzo Mancini, Mauro Bissi, Riccardo Ripanucci
project: Luigi Greco e Mattia Paco Rizzi - GRRIZ with :
Jacopo Bernatti, Simone Bianchi, Simone Bianco, Michelangelo Bielli, Martina Caviggiolo, Bastien De Simone, Justine Lenoble, Alessandro Livraghi, Anna Gloria Moschetti, Tommaso Pannunzio, Alessia Rapetti, Sofia Signorotti, Luca Vincenzi.
where: Castello di Garessio, Garessio (Cuneo), Italia - GMaps here
when: 31 luglio 2021
Archibüse was born within the Petites Folies Summer School curated by Emanuele Piccardo with the purpose of revitalizing the area of the Castle of Garessio (CN). Realized in one week by 13 European students, in the mode of the self-building workshop, Archibüse has created a panoramic point on the Ligurian Alps and redesigned the surrounding space with special furniture. The use of local wood, together with dry assembly, make this microarchitecture a sustainable and reversible project.
photo credits : Emanuele Piccardo, Marco Introini, Alessandro Livraghi
location: San Cataldo ( Lecce )
when: 07.2019
status: completed
Lumia is an urban regeneration device that investigates the relationship between water and sea and the use of the pier as a natural extension of the waterfront. Lumia is a space for aggregation, reflection and meditation.
Arranged along the pier line, the installation consists of a series of wooden elements, arranged circularly towards a single axis. The installation aggregates and multiplies the points of view and observation of the landscape.
The installation is also a tribute to the fishermen, as Lumia with its ropes and shape is reminiscent of an instrument they like best: the fishing trap.
Seen from above, the installation simulates a star, a natural symbol of the straight path.
Builders: Sahraoui Wassim, Eleni Zografini, Eleonora Giannetti, Francesco Pileri, Tala Sayssa, Mafalda Matos ,Urša Rot, Simone Bianco, Gaia Agozzino Tutors: Mattia Paco Rizzi – Grriz, Roberto Ubaldi – Archistart team
© Filippo Ferrarese
location: Thuin, Belgium
when: 09.2018
status: completed,accessible until 2033
curators: Pascal Marlier , Dorothée Duvivier
materials: Glued laminated timber, marine plywood panels, local slate tiles .
dimensions: covered surface 25 square meters
We were invited by FLUIDE-PUBLIC ART FESTIVAL 2018 to conceive a permanent intervention in one of the suspended gardens of the city of Thuin in Belgium.
The suspended gardens are a system of terraces created in the Middle Ages by the citizens of the city, who have satisfied the need for arable land around the fortified city, creating massive retaining walls and transporting sandy material from the river bed. Orientation is a presence of the river contribution for centuries to the creation of an ideal microclimate for the cultivation of vines and fruit trees. Our intervention is located in the suspended gardens owned by the Cultural Center of Thuin Alta Sambre, the venue of the FLUIDE festival which each year proposes the creation of public art works and performances in Thuin.
The sculpture, designed to be inhabited by up to two people at a time, offers the artists invited to the festival the opportunity to stop, rest and meditate suspended on two terraces, with a breathtaking view of the valley.
The intervention was carried out without the use of mechanical means, it was designed for the construction process. The sculpture has three levels of finish that accompany visitors from outside the gardens to the private interior space. The large beams visible from the outside are a strongly expressive skin and simulate an archaic and decisive language. the larch cladding instead is a squared, monolithic volume, a rough-hewn stone that protects the artists.
The interior space, all in white, offers tranquility and serenity, for the study and creation of beneficial works the whole community. The wood will tend to gray because of the oxidation and its color will approach the surrounding stones to reach in a few months the perfect fusion with the surrounding anthropic landscape.
For the realization of the work materials (beams and slate in coverage) were used, recovered from the demolition of the old casino of the city.
project team : GRRIZ
construction team: GRRIZ, Sylvain Masson, Fabien Decoucut, Benoît Laurent,
location: Italian Pavilion, XV Venice Architecture Biennale
when: 2016
status: completed
A garden, a need, a material. This is the source of the installation by Luigi Greco & Mattia Paco Rizzi / GRRIZ. Set on the edge of the Italian Pavilion, the Giardino delle Vergini is the natural focus of the exhibition layout at the Biennale. Hence the need to create a restful, reflective place and offer it to visitors. The material absorbs the effects of this attitude. Wood, recycled from the dismantling of Expo 2015, is placed here in a state of momentary stillness, worked and altered as little as possible in order to meet the future needs of those it is offered to. When the event ends, the material will gain a third life.
project team: GRRIZ
construction team: GRRIZ, Giulia Cerrato
special thanks to ReBiennale for the logistic support.
Location: Rho, Milan, IT
When: 09/2021
Status: completed
WOODHENGE, located in Sunset Park in Via Deledda, Rho - Milan, enhances material from the dismantling of International Milan EXPO 2015: 16 large laminated wood columns with a characteristic lenticular shape recovered from the demolition of small kiosks near Pavilion Zero designed by architect Michele De Lucchi.
A project made possible thanks to the collaboration between public and private, between the Municipality of Rho and Arexpo, MIND, Lendlease, DESPE and the creative studio GRRIZ.
Project design team: GRRIZ + Abril Pollack
Project construction team: Luigi Greco, Abril Pollack, Claudio Abaca
Location: Valle dei Tempi, Agrigento, Sicily, IT
When: 08/2021
Status: completed
For the third year in a row, we designed the set for the main stage of the festival.
Festivalle is a music festival that takes place in the fabulous setting of the Valley of the Temples, in Agrigento, Sicily.
A wooden structure animated by led.
location: Paris, france
when: 2017
status: completed
materials: larch wood boards, waterproofing with Shou Sugi Ban's technique, hops cultivation
dimensions: 4x40x3m
Creation of an artistic wooden structure to be used as a support for hops cultivation for handmade beer production. All this, on rooftop of a 4-story building, in the north western suburbs of Paris.A project entirely made of douglas and larch wood, with Shou-sugi-ban treatment for plants wooden box and organic linseed oil wood protection. Project realized in collaboration with TOPAGER for KEYS Asset Management
project team: GRRIZ. Topager
construction team: Mattia Paco Rizzi
location: parco Europa, corso Europa, Rho
client: Municipality of Rho
when: 2020
status: completed
CATASTA arose from a single observation: our planet is in difficulty and each one of us is duty bound to make our everyday lives sustainable. The work expresses a need to place architectural practice centre stage, with design, materials, place and function all being accorded the same importance.
Thus, the timber used to build the project came from dismantling the larch boards of the Pavilion Zero façade, designed by architect Michele De Lucchi for EXPO 2015.
Straightforward, effective work on the timber gave CATASTA value added by changing it from a mere wall surface to a true public amenity at the service of the community of Rho. The plastic shaping of the individual elements was inspired by the traditional technique involving allowing timber to dry naturally, which envisages the overlapping of linear elements to create large self-supporting volumes. The organic, insistent movement provided by this overlapping allows CATASTA to invade the Parco Europa space.
The work explores the opportunities offered by various levels of relationships with the park’s tree trunks and bushes and above all with the human body, by developing intuitive ergonomics, always open to new interpretations. In profound respect and homage to Genius Materiae, the wood was used in its original dimensions, retaining its physical and mechanical features, and only cutting away the parts of the reclaimed boards that were unusable.
The installation consists of 25 parts, which overlap and slot together to create spaces in which to rest and chat, to take exercise in and any other use the public may wish to experiment. CATASTA is a platform of possibilities: all and nothing at the same time. It morphs instantly in accordance with the public’s sense of responsibility and the use made of it.
GRRIZ e TAMassociati
construction team: GRRIZ, Andrea Vittone, Asmir Lalic, Sofia Couscous
location: Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark
when: 2016
status: completed
materials: timber structure in fir wood
dimensions: 7x12x8 meters
For the 2016 edition the Roskilde Art Zone is enriched with an entrance gate, whose wild mode of expression and black and gold colours makes it function as a visual marker for the shift from Art Zone and the rest of the festival area. The gate is called: Grosse Fatigue. The gate to Art Zone will work as a visual magnet that will draw in festivalgoers through its strong and overwhelming design. At the same time, the gate creates a holistic experience, as the design is connected to Art Zone’s overall visual identity with black and gold as theme colours.
A special thanks to Martha Cooper for the amazing photo.
[First photo by © Martha Cooper, all the rest by © GRRIZ ]
project team: GRRIZ
construction team: grriz with: Kristoffer Codam, Jens Vium Skaarup, Johan Mumm Sylvest, Thea Orderud, Rasmus Svane Høj, Mette Lind Østergaard, Rikke helbo, Victor Ohn, Asger Aagesen, Johnny Nors, Mikkel Hansen, John Gmelin, Kirsten David, Clara Dale, Emilie Gad
location: sicily, agrigento, beach of San Leone
when: 2018
status: completed
materials: fir boards, water based ink,
dimensions: 10x8x4 meters
Festivalle is the first Music & Digital Arts Festival in the Valley of the Temples, near Agrigento, Sicily. Grriz was responsible for the stage design that hosted DJs in concerts on the magical San Leone beach. The structure is inspired by the geometry of spiny plants that are born spontaneously in the Sicilian dunes. The localization of the concert, facing the south-west Mediterranean sea, gave its name to the artistic installation.
project team: grriz
curator: Fausto Savatteri
construction team: Luigi Greco, Antonio Greco, Marco Mannacio, Andrea Vittone
location: dream
when: someday
status: study project
this study project was carried out for a public space on Sheikh Zayed Rd in Dubai, UAE.
The idea of the project was to bring an installation out of the norm, in shape and material in the hyper mineral context in the city of the Emirate.
Geometric shapes play with each other, creating a green gallery where the public can stop and refresh themselves and where children can play with the swings on the sides of the wooden carpentry.
this study project was carried out for a public space on Sheikh Zayed Rd in Dubai.
The idea of the project was to bring an installation out of the norm, in shape and material in the hyper mineral context in the city of the Emirate.
Geometric shapes play with each other, creating a green gallery where the public can stop and refresh themselves and where children can play with the swings on the sides of the wooden carpentry.
These renderings illustrate a potential realization in a European context. and what could have happened after a nuclear disaster.
location: Catanzaro, IT
when: 2015
status: completed
materials: Boards of fir
dimensions: 110 sqm
The furnishing of the living room was inserted inside a wooden vortex inspired by the chaotic overlays of spontaneous and organic architecture. The structure and trim are followed by precise directions that give tension to the salon spaces and envelop the customers. "Catanzaro pulled the wind strong" is a tribute to the imperfection, to a windy city, to the chaos of nature and the wind that breaks the hair.
design: GRRIZ with the collaboration of Marco Bencivenga
customer: Antonella Hair Diffusion / Catanzaro
Photos of: Angelo Jaroszuk Bogasz and Mattia Paco Rizzi