Studio for Cosmopolitical Models

February 25th.2025

Starting from the second semester of the academic year 2024/2025, Raffaele Sarubbo will serve as Teaching Assistant at the University of Calabria, teaching Architecture and Architectural Composition 3 within the Architecture degree program.

February 20th.2025

Studio for Cosmopolitical Models will be in Rome on February 20, 2025, to present, at the Order of Architects, the winning project of the competition for the Rehearsal Hall of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

Here is the link to register for the event: shorturl.at/cfEJP.

The project was developed in collaboration with
Ricardo Lima (Girão Lima Arquitectos),
Emanuele Migliorisi, Marco Falcone.

October 22th.2024

Studio for Cosmopolitical Models is glad to announce that, in collaboration with Marco Falcone, Emanuele Migliorisi, and Ricardo Ribeiro Machado Pedroso De Lima, it has won the design competition for the Rehearsal Hall of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Capitale, as part of the urban redevelopment program known as Centro Servizi Prenestino.

Jury's Comment:

"The project, in addition to an architectural language characterized by both experimentation and a well-balanced sense of monumentality, introduces a spatial concept that integrates a flexible, workshop-like structure on the southwest façade. This element interacts with the public space to the north, incorporating features that evoke the world of experimental theater and generating a highly positive and realistic urban interior-exterior interaction.

The project's phasing is particularly convincing, ensuring that the building remains well-defined and complete even within the sole implementation of Sector S1. Some revisions are suggested—considered entirely feasible—regarding the layout of the service areas supporting the Hall, including maneuvering spaces."

For more information:
shorturl.at/cgkV5
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Studio for Cosmopolitical Models is an architecture practice based in Lisbon and Rome. Founded in 2020 by Raffaele Sarubbo, it develops research and design practices that investigate architecture as a field of negotiation between heterogeneous forces — economic, social, environmental, and related to the recognition of rights. Architecture is conceived as a form of mediation and evolving composition that takes on a cosmopolitical character.

Considering reality as a continuously shifting mise-en-scène, the studio opens a line of inquiry into the models that shape widespread behaviours and forms of collective organization, with the aim of critically analysing them, challenging them, and, when necessary, imagining alternative scenarios.

The studio embraces a vision of architecture as a transmaterial discipline, with transscalar and transspecies implications, capable of actively contributing to the shaping of contemporary society and its future trajectories. Architectural works are conceived as assemblages of socio-technological and semiotic-material devices that participate in constructing the conditions of collective life.

AWARDS AND PRIZES

FACULTY OF MEDICINE, DIGITAL CENTRE UMINHO
University of Braga, Portugal
1st Prize — 2021

PIAZZA MARTIRI D’UNGHERIA
Vibo Valentia, Italy
1st Prize — 2021

MEDITERRANEAN CULTURAL GATE
Reggio Calabria, Italy
1st Prize — 2021

SOCIAL HOUSING IN SÃO FRANCISCO DE BORJA
Almada, Portugal
3rd Prize — 2021

GREEN AXIS IN NORTHERN PUTIGNANO
Putignano, Italy
1st Prize — 2021

SOCIAL HOUSING IN RUA DAS QUINTAS
Almada, Portugal
2nd Prize — 2022

RESEARCH CENTRE IN SÃO JOÃO DA MADEIRA
São João da Madeira, Portugal
1st Prize — 2022

“A. DEGASPERI” PRIMARY SCHOOL
Mezzocorona, Italy
2nd Prize — 2022

“G. MODUGNO” PRIMARY SCHOOL
Bitonto, Italy
1st Prize — 2022

MULTIPURPOSE CULTURAL CENTRE
Massagno, Switzerland
1st Prize — 2023

REHEARSAL HALL, TEATRO DELL’OPERA DI ROMA
Rome, Italy
1st Prize — 2024