Buccione Architects
“Our Professional Practice was born in the early 1980s. Forced as an athlete to get off the plane that would take me to my second Olympics the one in Moscow because of my membership in a Sports Group of the Guardia di Finanza; with a timing inherited from competitive competitions I embarked on the profession of architect with an address perhaps taken for granted in the field of sports facilities. Initial training was spent in the Facilities and Programming Sector of the FIDAL where on the back of the 1st Conference on Athletics Facilities (1980) an organic programming plan was launched that covered all the Regions of Italy. That experience was fundamental in entering the world of the profession, from the first rudiments of a School Field makeover to the study of UNI Standards in tune with the CONI Study Center. The design of mini indoor facilities to go alongside the outdoor tracks to reach the indoor tracks of Florence (PalaMandela), Turin (Palavela), Lodi (Ex Linificio), Ancona 1st(Ente Fiera della Pesca), Ancona 2nd(PalaCasali). The experiences gained over the years in the realizations of Sports Centers for National Sports Federations, University Sports Centers and Project Finance contracts have been a significant enrichment of technical innovations and inevitable research to improve the competitive result of athletes. The current issues in the realization, construction and management of sports facilities deeply engage every professional in our country in the precise and direct goal of achieving carbon neutrality, and therefore it is necessary to identify the solutions with high energy performance. It is the challenge of our tomorrow that sees us engaged in new realizations in tune with the procedures of performance verification related to the minimization of climate-changing emissions, adoption of design solutions to contain C02 emissions, renaturalization interventions through forms of green integrated in sports facilities.
Continuous contact with social realities have confirmed important paths to a sustainable lifestyle through physical activity, nutrition, disease prevention, and mental health that cannot but direct us in the full use of the spaces we share.”
Grottaferrata, 9 settembre 2024
Roberto and Matteo Buccione
The Buccione Studio
The studio Roberto Buccione Architect was founded in 1980.
The first work experiences were addressed, for the natural youthful training of the owner, to the athletic sports facilities.
With the years the activity of the Studio, as an aggregation of different collaborators and technicians, has undertaken a path towards a modern research for the creation of spaces suitable for the practice of any indoor and outdoor sport activity.
This choice to design surfaces and volumes with a vision linked to the territory has allowed to insert with balance the new specific spaces that all the motor activities require: the possibility to make the volumes less conspicuous and organically inserted in the environment is a peculiar feature of the professional production of Studio Buccione.
