Architect Camillo Botticini founded his firm in Brescia, Italy in 1993. The firm states that its benchmark for architectural projects is “the complexity of a fragmented and versatile world.” Botticini’s projects attempt to articulate this world in relation to specific subjects and contexts. The firm states that the starting point for each project is its “preliminary conceptual content.”
In the case of the firm’s 2013 swimming center in Brescia, Italy, that concept was a pool articulated by black brick. Designboom, in their review of the work, states that the pool is “an ubiquitous object.”
“the homogenous building is composed of a black brick and through a sequence of excavated fronts, the changing shape forming overhangs and recesses that change the character between the interior and exterior spaces. providing generous space for exercise, from a gymnasium to outdoor and indoor swimming pools, light is filtered through the large glazing which simultaneously strengthens the visual relationship between the different sporting areas and the landscape beyond.”
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Photographs by Nicolo Galeazzi and Alessandro Galperti. Courtesy of the architect.
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