«The more architecture mutates, the more it confronts its immutable core. Yet S, M, L, XL is a search for ‘another’ architecture, knowing that architecture is like a lead ball chained to a prisoner’s leg: to escape, he has to get rid of its weight, but all he can do is scrape slivers off with a teaspoon»

OMA, R. Koolhaas, B. Mau, S,M,L,XL, 1995

/ REGENERATION STRATEGIES

/ LANDSCAPES

/ LIGHT INFRASTRUCTURES

/ URBAN SPACES

/ ARCHITECTURES

/ TEMPORARY SPACES

/ INTERIORS

TSPOON is a small tool that produces processes. Whatever the scale of intervention is, the aim of TSPOON’s experimentation is to create ecosystems resulting from the interaction between general strategies and the minute and multiple nature of everyday life. The project is an open grid of possibilities capable of absorbing and catalyzing mutations, transformations and re-appropriations in a continuous dialectic process between space and inhabitants.
TSPOON is Nina Artioli, Alessandra Glorialanza and Eliana Saracino.

WE DO

TSPOON is an architectural and urban design firm, that operates through projects, processes, installations, research and publications.
TSPOON is a company that over years has developed skills in the fields of: architectural design, strategic planning, territorial master planning for sustainable urban development, urban requalification, regeneration and enhancement, territorial planning and landscape design, development of integrated systems of sustainable mobility, public space design, temporary installations, coordination and management of participatory planning, social innovation and smart city.

 

WE ARE


TSPOON is Nina Artioli (Milano 1979), Alessandra Glorialanza (Roma 1979), Eliana Saracino (Taranto 1980).

 

COLLABORATORS

Maria Costanza Laganà, Giovanni Lugheri, Marie Regnaut, Cecilia Galli, Elena Ventura, Marina Galante, Giulia Lambiase, Roberto Busselli, Davide Palmacci, Benedetta Braglia, Chiara Bastianoni, Camilla Bernstein, Laura Salvetti, Federica Spinaci, Andrea Del Pelo, Francesco Scillieri, Eleonora Sanfilippo, Annalisa Pilati, Antonio Guerrieri, Enrica Olita, Agnese Monica, Elisa Borgognoni, Giovanna Perdichizzi, Paola Fortunato, Daniela Rosati, Fiorella D’Urso, Livio Di Bernardo, Valentina Cestari, Angelica Palumbo, Milena Clausi, Laura Canzolino, Chiara Garri, Rossella Arma, Elisabetta Vacca, Gaia Ascone, Silvia Sanchietti, Emiliano Quaresima, Shai Cristallo, Raffaella Toscano, Silvia De Lisi, Lorenza Esposito, Davide Maria Di Tolla, Elena Gualandi, Miranda Lippolis, , Martina Moscarelli, Agar Eccher, Arianna Taddei, Claudia Gualtieri, Giulia Boccia, Rony Bouez, Altea Panebianco, Monica Sandulli.

 

PRIZES AND AWARDS

. special mention,restricted design competition “Sistemazione del tratto superiore di Corso Libertà”, Merano (BZ), 2022
. finalist
, restricted design competition “Riqualificazione urbana dell’Asse verde a nord di Putignano”, Putignano (BA), 2022
. winner
, public notice “Creative Living Lab. Costruire spazi di prossimità per progetti di rigenerazione urbana – 3.a edizione”, Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea del Ministero della Cultura, 2021-22
. second place
, restricted design competition “Riqualificazione di due spazi pubblici nel II Municipio – Villaggio Olimpico”, Roma, 2019
. special mention
, design competition “Ampliamento del cimitero comunale”, San Pancrazio Salentino (BR), 2018
. third place, international design competition “Arquine no.18 – Pabellòn Mextropoli”, Città del Messico, 2016
. finalist, restricted design competition “Nuova viabilità frazione Champoluc”, Ayas (AO), 2015
. selected firm – section architetture and design “Lazio Creativo – 100 storie di creatività”, 2016
. finalist, restricted design competition “YAP young architects program – MAXXI”, Roma, 2015
. winner, international restricted design competition “Riqualificazione Cavalcavia Bussa”, Milano, 2014
. second place, competition “Piano per la rete ciclopedonale”, Predazzo (TN), 2014
. special mention, competition “Europan 12 – The Adaptable City”, Budapest, 2013
. special mention, prize “RI.U.SO. 02”, 2013
. third place, prize “Quale spazio pubblico? Idee per nuove forme di spazio pubblico”, 2013
. winner, call for ideas “Spazio pubblico – networks – social innovation” – section Città Open Source, II Biennale dello Spazio Pubblico, 2013
. special mention, competition “Progetto urbano per l’area di Dietro Poggio”, Calenzano (FI), 2012
. winner, competition “Archivio di confine”, Molfetta (BA), 2012
. special mention, prize “Vocazione Roma”, 2011
. selected firm – second place, prize “NIB Top 10 Paesaggio”, 2011
. third place, international restricted design competition “Development of historic Al-Adhamiyah district”, Baghdad, Iraq, 2011
. special mention, international design competition “AAA architetti cercasi”, Milano, 2010
. selected firm, “27/37 Rassegna Internazionale di Giovani Architetti Italiani”, 2010
. finalist, international restricted design competition “Carso 2014+ – Museo territoriale del Carso goriziano”, Gorizia, 2010
. winner, international restricted design competition “Meno è Più 5 – Paglian Casale Parco Radicelli”, Roma, 2008
. special mention, competition “Riqualificazione della passerella di accesso al borgo”, Civita di Bagnoregio (VT), 2008
. special mention, international design competition “Greater Helsinki Vision 2050”, Helsinki, 2007

LECTURES

Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Politecnico di Milano, Università degli Studi di Genova, Università di Camerino – Ascoli Piceno, University of Arkansas, University of Iowa, LUISS Guido Carli, Domus Academy Milano, Berlage Institute Rotterdam, MAXXI Roma, MACRO Roma, IED Roma, Ordine degli Architetti P.P.C. Roma – Acquario romano, Ordine degli Architetti P.P.C. Potenza, Ordine degli Architetti P.P.C. Siena, Casa della città Roma, Urban Center Bologna, Biennale dello Spazio Pubblico, Smart City Days Torino, Festival internazionale di architettura MI/ARCH, Milano Arch Week, Biennale di Architettura di Venezia, Triennale di Milano, Deutsches Architektur Zentrum DAZ Berlin, Fondazione Benetton Treviso.

 

EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
Biennale di Venezia, UIA XXIII World Congress of Architecture, International Architecture Biennale NAI Rotterdam, Human Cities Festival – Bruxelles, Expo Shanghai 2010, ETSAV Valencia, Casa dell’Architettura Roma, Pastificio Cerere, University of Budapest, Temple University, University of Arkansas, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Politecnico di Milano, IUAV Venezia, CAMPO, Deutsches Architektur Zentrum DAZ Berlin, MAXXI – Roma, MOMA – New York, Modern – Istanbul, Constructo – Santiago, MMCA – Seoul, Triennale di Milano, Fondazione Benetton Treviso.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Domus, domusweb, Abitare, Artribune, Corriere della Sera, Sentieri urbani, IoArch, 4D Journal of landscape architecture and garden art, Paesaggio Urbano, Anfione e Zeto, Il giornale dell’architettura, Arquine.