POT or Top

Pot or Top. Design for a living table

Patented by : Angelo Grasso and Paolo Fisicaro

Designer: Angelo Grasso

Landscaper designer: Paolo Fisicaro

for further informations visit the Pot or Top dedicated page: Pot or Top

OGIP, proposal for The Olympic Games Information Pavilion, London. ACCA competition

Design team: Domenico Cannistraci, Angelo Grasso

Type: International Calls for Ideas

Location: London

Area of the Pavilion: 100 sqm

Together with Domenico Cannistraci Architect we have partecipated to Acca Competition, an international call for designing the Informations Pavilion during the next Olympic Games at Trafalgar Square in London.

Following some informations about the project:

The Olympic Games Information Pavilion embraces both the visitors with the Londoners during the Games.

The OGIP creates a public space into the public square, this by overlaying a monumental square.

The OGIPlands on the hearth of London and uses the natural pavement of the Square as its indoor floor.
The functions are lined up in a transparent horizontal sequence describing an intimate courtyard.

This see-through basement spaced out by shining gold silver and brass wired curtains is sorrounded by the vertical vibration of the roof which hosts all the suspended equipments togheter with the b-side screen visible from the court as well as from the Trafalgar Square stairs.
The roof reproduces indeed the Mews scenario, inviting the visitors to discover the Olympic Games in a space in between local tradition and contemporary architecture.

Welcome to the Olympic Games.

Trichrome Art Gallery in Fulham road, London

AG is delighted to report a text just recieved from Trichrome Art Gallery

"It has been an extremely challenging experience because of the incredibly restricted budget we imposed ourselves.
So we decided to start up a process of coworking with architect Angelo Grasso trying to recycle any bit found in the existing space and trying to turn the gallery into an illustration itself, mainly by using the stencil art, one of the cheapest ways of expression.
Angelo Grasso suggested to overlay a geometrical pattern on both floors to enhance the hand drawing art of illustrations.
The black stripe at the groundfloor visible from large distance hosts the artworks and can be reconfigurated for any exhibition as the curators and the artists like.The hand by David Graham pierces the black paper and invites the visitors from outside to get in.
In the basement the red staircase seems to get birth from the endless red line of the Stencil Work "Gray will never end".

David Graham and Antonella Cino, managers of Trichrome Art Gallery London. 

Design team: Angelo Grasso

Type: Commission

Location:Fulham, London

Area of the Gallery: approximately 45 sqm

Basement: Stencil " the Gray will never end" design by Angelo Grasso

Ground-floor: the black book. A possible installation layout. Stencil by David Graham.

Flat in SW3, London

Here some pictures of a flat we did in SW3 in London.

Architect: Angelo Grasso

General Contractor: Edilco Limited

Furniture: AF Designs
Area: 90 sqm

The demolition showed up an interesting prefabricated concrete structure, indicating a new spatial disposition and lighting advices for the living room. The really weird thing was that the vertical partition just touched the bottom of the beams.

This the reason to enhance this character of the space enriching all the beams with deamerable lights.

The corridor partecipates to the ceiling rhythm with a sequence of vertical coloured stripes. 

I have been asked to create an artwork on the existing door cabinet set. Together with the clients we decided to get inspirated by a Gio Ponti wall drawing contaminating it with the mat gray and the glossy red colours crossed by stripes.

Design: Angelo Grasso 

Coating: M.Cozari, A Grasso

I have been asked to create a coloumn for a "dangerous corner" between two units I have designed for a room. Together with AF-designs we conceived this lamp instead.
A parallelepiped with circular holes is laying on a black base hiding a jewel box too.

The unit for the masterbedroom hides secret spaces and functions. At the same time its superglossy petrol colour reflects the view of London roofs.

CHAPEAU

I am glad to present this artistic istallation I took part in as exhibition designer for Antonino Rizzo Artist at Museo Guttuso in Bagheria, Italy. 

500 black and white hats were hanging on trasparent wires to pay homage to the Cinema's history.

Istallation: Chapeau

Location: Sala dei Manifesti Museo Guttuso, Bagheria, Italy

Artist: Antonino Rizzo

Exhibition designer and istallation: Antonino Rizzo, Angelo Grasso

Below: Some images and istallation plan.

Landmark. Vertical vs Horizontal

Proposal for the 11 th Arquine International call for ideas for the FARO, Arts and Craft Factory, Mexico

Design: Angelo Grasso 

Client: Arquine 

Year: 2008 

Location: Mexico DF
Area: 100 sqm

Mexico City. On the 50th anniversary of the Satélite Towers (1958) designed by Luis Barragán and Mathias Goertiz, ARQUINE announced its 11th International Competition, proposing the design of a“FARO of Satélite” in the plaza where the towers are located. The towers depict the verticality of this huge landscape. Landmark is the contrast to the verticality of the landscape.It is a burrow which redefines the public space of the large plaza preserving the view of the Satelites Towers. 

Landmark gets up for designing the Arts and Craft Factory space, an architecture conceived as a sprawl of facilities which designs ad defines itself a more intimate open public space. Landmark walls are indeed the graffity workshop, a place for the people, a changeable background for the cityscape.

The Landmark walls facing the City host a permanent graffiti workshop. The walls facing the coutyard will be the result of a process of partecipation between Designers and Cityzens.

View of the courtyard of the Center.

The idea is to develop a workshop to design the walls of the center facilities. This is a simulation.