Edifici business

Hannibal Advertising Office by ROHM

The new location for Hannibal Advertising is located on the edge of the port area of Roeselare. The presence of the fairway and the matching large-scale industrial constructions, both recent and historical, give the area its specific dynamics.
In stark contrast to the rough neighborhood, the owners fell in love with a forgotten and overgrown so-called summer garden. The wild character of the garden is preserved and enhanced as much as possible.

In addition to flexible cell offices (functional as an office and meeting room), the office should also be able to accommodate 32 employees. Given the creative DNA and young dynamics of the company, landscape offices were mainly chosen. The size of the program in combination with placing parking spaces within the walled garden proved to be a major challenge.

A compact footprint was chosen and the program was stacked over 3 floors. The top building layer enjoys the elongated concrete skyline of the port area. The first floor is located as a tree house in the crowns of the historic weeping willow and chestnut trees.
The choice of 3 storeys makes it possible to integrate the building into the site in a balanced way. It is possible to keep a larger proportion of trees, to realize sufficient parking spaces and to keep an additional garden zone on the scale of the office on the south side of the building. The garden wall surrounding the plot is iconic for the site and is preserved in its entirety.

The front and rear facades of the office building are constructed from a curtain wall in anodised aluminium.
The plinth of the building is materialized by raw concrete panels from which the entrance door and panoramic window towards the garden have been cut out.
The lateral facades of the building are constructed from the same concrete. Windows are provided at the various underlying functions for the necessary lights, views and ventilation of the building.

The common areas such as the refectory and work areas such as a photo studio and meeting facilities are provided on the ground floor of the building. This refectory is furnished as a bar and can therefore also be used as an informal meeting room with customers.In combination with various possibilities for relaxation (such as punching bag, table tennis and petanque), a spacious sun terrace and a music and light installation, this floor forms the creative heart of the building.

The floors above will be furnished as office space with open-plan offices for 32 people, meeting facilities and quiet workspaces. The 2 upper floors are visually connected by means of a void. This void forms the central place in the office and reinforces the sense of community for Hannibal’s employees. The fall protection is used as a climbing frame for a wild hanging garden in the building.

All workplaces are adjacent to the glass curtain walls and offer a wide view of the gardens and treetops in the project. The green environment is therefore part of the experience of the office.

The wild character of the garden is preserved as much as possible and enhanced where possible: the garden wall is not restored but merely maintained. Virginia creeper and hedges of ivy are pruned but kept as much as possible. The parking spaces are planned in such a way that only a minimum of trees need to be removed.

Several additional tall trees will be planted on the site to, among other things, give the southern garden a sheltered character in which various activities can take place (including petanque, hammock, connections for live music and an outdoor meeting table.

The roadway and entrance to the building are laid out as a winding path in
an exposed concrete. This path leads to the closed facade with characteristic front door and sliding gate. This specific element was developed together with Hannibal into an experience in which the customer is received in a reception area that is extremely well equipped to do full justice to visual concepts through ingenious projection.

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Team:
Architect: ROHM
Engineer: BM Engineering
Main Contractor: Beeuwsaert
Concept interior: Maister
Photo: Johnny Umans

Tiffany Landmark by OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture

Tiffany & Co. is a New York icon and retail enterprise providing luxury goods ranging from stationery and everyday objects to fine jewelry. A history of innovation and devotion to timeless beauty and pragmatism, underlines how the specialty design house shaped and re-shaped local and global retail landscape.

Tiffany’s flagship occupied 727 Fifth Avenue for over 80-years, establishing itself as a quintessential New York fixture. Ironically, one’s experience or association of the flagship is often limited to the building’s most famed, film-location ground floor. The renovation reimagines the flagship with a spectrum of interventions, from reprogramming to preservation and new spatial expressions.

727 Fifth Avenue presented 10-stories entirely dedicated to retail, at a scale that not dissimilar to the typical urban department store. While a department store is inherently diverse, with a wide variety of brands in shop-in-shops, here, a single brand occupies the multi-story building. How could the renovation break the potential monotony of shopping all Tiffany products?

How can the potential of scale be maximized to provide a diverse experience? Can the visitor be fully engaged through the entire building? How should a heritage brand in a historic building communicate a cohesive narrative? Can the center of activity gravity be shifted or distributed vertically?

The transformation begins with the reorganization and rezoning of retail programs for a more fluid circulation through the ground level and up all ten floors. A more efficient infrastructure is established by moving and consolidating the core in alignment with the main revolving door entry and adding an elevator lobby that clarifies access to upper levels. The addition of a dedicated exhibition, event, and clientele space on the roof of the original building is conceived as a new dimension to Tiffany’s retail ecosystem—a space to broadcast an evolving brand identity and host new initiatives.

The architecture is generated by an attitude towards luxury that’s persisted through Tiffany’s evolution—balance of aesthetic and practical sensibilities as a means of innovation, here, we resolve both characteristics programmatically and formally. A clear box stacks two floors, exhibition and event, within, making a unified form with potential for two programs to work together or independently. The straight, vision glass façade offers panoramic views out and sets back from the edge of the existing building envelope to make a wraparound terrace overlooking the city and Central Park.

Above, the client floor extends out and over the terrace and is encased by a slumped glass façade. Unlike traditional curved glass which typically consists of two pieces of glass that are offset shapes of one another, the façade combines flat and slumped glass to leverage the two different qualities and distinct advantages. The slumped glass is structurally favorable and requires less vertical support while creating a mirrored effect that provides privacy from the exterior. The flat low-e glass optimizes energy performance while minimizing reflections from the interior to preserve transparency for views out onto the city.

Resembling a soft curtain, the façade is an antidote to the severe glass buildings that tower over the Landmark that contributes a different texture to the sober form of the existing limestone building and glass box addition. The new jewelry box (or “blue box” when lit at night in Tiffany Blue) floating above the original structure is a symbolic start to a renewed identity of the flagship and the brand.

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CREDITS

OMA New York
Partner: Shohei Shigematsu
Associate: Jake Forster
Project Architect: Caroline Corbett, Ninoslav Krgovic

Team: Marie-Claude Fares, Richard Nelson-Chow, Tommaso Bernabo Silorata, Clement Mathieu, Kevin Larson, Leone Di Robilant, Adam Vosburgh, Anahita Tabrizi, Avo Keuyalian, Jackie Woon Bae, Henrik Gjerstad, Cameron Fullmer, Ge Zhou, Patricio Fernandez Ivanschitz, Timothy Cheng, Mark Jongman- Sereno, Shary Tawil

Interior Architect (GF–F10): Peter Marino

Executive Architect: Callison RTKL Structure: WSP
MEP: WSP
Façade Consultant: Heintges Consulting Architects & Engineers P.C Façade

Manufacturer: Seele (glass by Sunglass)
Lighting: Tillotson
AV: Theater Projects
Acoustics: Cerami Associates / Henderson Engineers

Graphics, Signage, Wayfinding: 2x4
Vertical Transportation: Edgett Williams Consulting Group

IT/Data/Security: Tiffany Co (In-house)
Sustainability: Paladino & Co.
Client Rep/Project Managers/Costing: MACE Group

General Contractor: Structuretone
PICS BY: floto+warner

LOOM Ferretería by Daniel Mòdol Urbanism + Architecture

A historic hardware store in Barcelona's Poblenou neighborhood, the former Balius founded in 1914, is now home to a 200-persons capacity coworking space with dogs allowed. It opened in late 2022 after four years of planning, two of construction, and 3.379.913€ of building expense with a redesign project by Daniel Modòl urbanism+architecture. Having been conceived under criteria of sustainability, energy saving and user comfort has earned it the LEED Gold certification, while the elements that have defined the industrial character of the building have been preserved and complemented with noble and locally sourced materials. LOOM Ferretería, with 1,756 floor area, provides quality workspaces in the 22@Barcelona district and connects with the sorroundings thanks to a wooden façade, practicable and provided with vegetation that gives it warmth and distinguishes it from other office buildings in Barcelona.

The transformation of the 22@ area in the Poblenou neighborhood is an opportunity to promote a new city model that is pushing Barcelona to renew its industrial fabric. Thanks to new innovative and creative buildings and spaces, the neighborhood is progressively becoming more sustainable.

LOOM Ferreteria is the adaptive reuse of an old industrial building, which had been occupied by one of the commerce landmarks in the area, the historic Balius hardware store, founded in 1914, where practically everything for construction could be found for sale. It is a five-storey building, built in the 1970s with a metal structure and a Catalan vault that gives it a unique character, thus both elements have been preserved. The rest of the intervention was adapted to the residential environment scale and materiality and for this, traditional materials such as ceramics, iron and wood were used.

The main façade was removed to enhance the existing structure and make it visible from the outside with a unique result since, in Barcelona, for reasons of insulation above all, the structure is usually hidden. The interior façade, made with natural wood and glass carpentry, recalls the traditional interior galleries of Barcelona buildings. An overlaid greenery façade featuring industrial metal planters brings vitality to the composition of the building and gives it an almost domestic character. The fact that it is a practicable façade, which users can open on each of the floors, distinguishes this coworking among the office buildings in Barcelona, that are more homogeneous and disconnected from the outside.

On the fourth floor a recess in the facade makes place for an outdoor space and different meeting rooms are placed as hybrid spaces that can optionally interact with the exterior. Daylight and ventilation in the rest of the building are provided by the openings in the main facade, the courtyard that occupies now the former stairwell and the rear facade made of pavés. All the materials used are noble and local and the green color, already existing in a large part of the interior structure of the building, has been extended throughout the entire structure and locksmithing of the building.

"The materials and the size of the spaces aimed to achieve a comfortable house experience. Wood and ceramic that are warm materials, are not commonly used in offices design," underlines Daniel Modol, who was Barcelona's Councilor for Architecture between 2015 and 2019.

The new coworking was designed under sustainability criteria, with energy savings and user comfort at its core, which has earned it the LEED Gold certification. The building reused 62% of the pre-existence, saves 48% of water and almost 10% of the energy comes from photovoltaic panels installed in it. In addition, it is connected to the district heating and cooling (DHC) network and to the pneumatic waste collection network.



Name of the project: LOOM Ferreteria

Certifications: A + LEED GOLD

Address: CarrerPere IV no. 128-130, 08005, Barcelona, Spain

Program: Coworking
Completion: 2022

M2 plot: 409,00m2
M2 total built: 2126,88m2

M2 total floor: 1756,99m2
Floors: PB+4
Cost: 3.379.913 €
Structure: metal pillars

Main materials: metal, ceramic tiles, wood

CREDITS OF THE PROJECT:

Architect: Daniel Modol Deltell
Company: Daniel Mòdol Urbanism + Architecture
Developer: Merlin Properties
Quantity Surveyor: PLAAT
Consultants. Bernuz-Fernández ARQ (structure); Estudis ESL (engineering)

Builder: FLULLE

Pics by LOOM and Jordi Bernado

Caixabank Offices by Miriam Barrio

This interior design project was carried out on the 6th floor of the Dau building in Barcelona, to welcome Caixabank’s innovation and marketing department.
The new image stands out for its corporatism thanks to the use of blue and yellow colors, which are very representative of this bank.
The application of blue as the main color of the project has been carried to the extreme by flooding the spaces intended for meeting or rest. Applying it to walls, floors and ceilings, we can delimit spaces without physical barriers, allowing fluid circulation through them.
The blue contrasts drastically with light colors or wood, which have been used for areas of passage and individual work areas.
In the brain-storming room, a quiet and comfortable atmosphere has been created thanks to the use of wood and carpet in light and neutral tones.
The furniture has been designed to measure, and this is collected integrating into the wall and allowing the room to be cleared for other uses.

Ex Acetaia di LAMBER + LAMBER
Modena, 2023

Gli uffici si trovano all'interno di un volume esistente un tempo adibito alla produzione del famoso “aceto balsamico”. L' idea semplice e forte di lavorare con un nuovo involucro all'interno della struttura esistente. Gli uffici sono distribuiti su due livelli, ognuno dei quali rappresenta un'organizzazione spaziale formalmente diversa. Una scala a chiocciola verde realizzata in metallo e pedate in legno di faggio collega i due piani e contemporaneamente funge da elemento focale dell' intero spazio. Il piano terra è concepito come uno spazio continuo in cui gli elementi di arredo possono essere liberamente distribuiti, un'unica parete continua e sinuosa contiene tutti i servizi (kitchenette, bagni, ripostiglio, vano tecnico) e contemporaneamente dà vita allo spazio di lavoro. Il secondo piano è rigorosamente diviso da pareti trasparenti fortemente relazionate alla struttura di copertura esistente. Gli uffici al primo piano, attraverso una parete vetrata leggermente inclinata nel vuoto, si affacciano sul piano terra creando nuove ed inaspettate relazioni visive. L'altro elemento specifico dell'ufficio è l'ingresso concepito come un piccolo spazio pubblico coperto all'interno dell'edificio esistente, un nuovo filtro tra la strada e l'interno.

Pics: fotografofabiomantovani

Torre Designo di Pininfarina

International design firm Pininfarina, known around the world for bringing its distinct automotive heritage and sleek aesthetic to the built environment, is pleased to announce its latest project, a two-tower corporate office building design titled ‘Torre Designo’ for Grupo Bosque Real, a real estate investment and management company based in Mexico City. Located within Bosque Real’s six million squaremeter, privately owned commercial development, Torre Designo will be the latest addition to one of the most premium neighborhoods in the outskirts of Mexico City. Surrounded by the natural foliage of the landscape and extensive views of the Capital, Torre Designo’s two towers rise from a dynamic topography of hills and canyons that seamlessly blend into the surrounding environment.

“We are extremely honored to partner with a firm of such high prestige as Pininfarina in the creation of Torre Designo, which will serve as the first office building within the Bosque Real Development,” says Moises Salame, Vice President of New Projects for Grupo Bosque Real. “Torre Designo represents an exciting first step into the creation of an office corridor in this part of the Metropolitan area –– a critical piece in the puzzle of our greater vision.”

“Our vision for the Torre Designo towers was centered around the idea of providing a high-end, human-first experience, while complementing the mission of Bosque Real’s existing, full mixed-use development,” says Paolo Trevisan, Pininfarina of America’s Head of Design and Architecture, echoing Salame’s sentiments about the forthcoming project’s impact on the surrounding community.

Working alongside architecture and interior design firm, SPACE, Pininfarina’s architectural design concept for the office building encapsulates the two commercial towers featuring 45,000-square-meters of office space and a 5,7000square-meter lower retail level, offering a high-end, community-oriented campus, seeking to support the nearly 4,000 residents that live within the existing residential areas surrounding Torre Designo.

In keeping with Pininfarina’s ethos of balancing beauty with functionality, the architecture of the two-pronged structure elevates the user experience by leveraging the beauty of Mexico City. From afar, Torre Designo’s high-rise towers are an icon, serving as a gateway that signifies the departure from the capital city and entry into Bosque Real’s exclusive, lush development. From a proximity, Pininfarina’s design blends nature and modernity, blurring the lines with materials and shapes that relate to its immediate context.

“Our team was very focused on enhancing the quality of life for those who use the office building,” emphasizes Jairo Vives, Lead Architect at Pininfarina of America.

“This resulted in the incorporation of various green spaces, as well as distinct moments where views of Bosque Real can be celebrated. We also paid special attention to the selection of nature-friendly materials.”

Recalling the vast amount of greenspace present within the growing neighborhood below, lush, sky-high gardens and a rooftop terrace are incorporated to offer tenants and visitors a moment of reflection and reprieve throughout the day, while changing the perception of the typical office building. Despite its location on the edge of Mexico City, the development still provides easy access to key sections of the city, offering the rare combination of office space surrounded by natural landscape, while in the proximity of urban amenities and nearby airports. Coldwell Banker has partnered with Bosque Real to support sales and leasing efforts for Torre Designo, which are currently open for interested parties and is slated for completion in 2023.

“Torre Designo hallmarks a significant achievement of Pininfarina’s expansion into the Mexico market,” says Paolo Pininfarina, Chairman of Pininfarina. “Adhering to the belief that design is the instrument to humanize innovation, our design team focused on thoughtful schemes and user-centric concepts, while also providing an high-end commercial space for the surrounding community.” We are continually innovating based on evolving market needs, and with Torre Designo we are staying ahead of the curve by offering the trifecta of a fantastic life-style: Live, Work & Play,” says Leon Salame, Vice President of Projects for Grupo Bosque Real.

Zhiwai Office | Haiyang Jin
with the Best Rooftop Terrace Offers Amazing City Views

The Zhiwai project is a unique presence that meets the needs of everyday office space functions, while also infusing vitality into the urban community.

Located in Nanjing Artist Workshop in China, Zhiwai creates a new kind of work-life balance in the commercial area. The designer uses height differences between the original building and the new elements to surround a sunken hub for rest and socializing -- the rooftop garden. The space is an extension area of the indoor office space, used to express the designer's personality and specific spatial attributes, while inadvertently providing a great place for the city to relax.

With the height difference of the site, the “bridge”appears at a certain angle, acting as a medium of transition between the indoor and outdoor spaces. Walking along the “bridge”, people pass an open bar area and pass through the door to reach a corridor that connects the various internal functional spaces. To define the difference in space, two new irregular boxes have been placed on the original building frame by the designer to ensure that the living room area protrudes from the building's exterior wall. The bar area is composed of eaves, exterior corridors, and semi-open enclosures, combining to form a soft visual entrance.

The bar area connects the interior and exterior in the form of a functional complement, accommodating after-work breaks, daily gatherings, and group celebrations. With the appropriate facade opening towards the terrace, the view from near to far outlines the city skyline and gradually becomes discernible.

The design of the living room facade window provides a glimpse of the city landscape, while also leveraging the dynamic light and shadows of the outdoor water to its fullest, thus eliminating the necessity of its physical presence. Due to height differences, the prominent living room creates an overhanging structural form, thus forming an intimate relationship between interior and exterior.

The square-shaped facade includes a diagonal section, which intentionally forms an angle echo with the "bridge" road at the entrance, connecting the spaces and increasing interest by ensuring that the window can see the "bridge", and the "bridge" can see the window. The circular window openings transform light into columns, with tremendous light and shadows wandering along the ground and wall, rendering the lines of the space three-dimensional and transforming the interior into a "container of light".

To reflect the space’s comfortable atmosphere and vitality, and to be suitable for intimate gatherings, the overall palette is skin tone. As the hub of the space, with a random placement of furniture and free furnishings of utensils, the living room displays aesthetic taste and self-consistent ways of getting along with the world.

Zhiwai is a romantic space that cannot be defined purely in terms of a commercial office. Instead, it is an exploration of an alternative possibility for office space guided by a principle of "work, rather than follow a routine", with presentations of the essence and meaning of life. And as night sets in, the space transforms into a completely different scene.
Technical sheet

Project Name: Zhiwai

Project Location: Nanjing

Construction Scale: 260㎡

Design Company: DSArchstudios

Creative Design: Haiyang Jin

Participatory Design: Wang Jing, Xu Yue

Execution Deepening: Wang Zhongming, Wang Shengqiankun

Photography: STUDIO TEN / Tan Xiao

Situated in the Guiwan District within the metropolitan city of Qianhai, the BIG-designed Qianhai Prisma Towers will flank each side of the Shenzhen Hong Kong Plaza - also known as the ‘green belt’ - marking the entrance to the neighborhood. New workspaces, residences, and 20,000+ m2 of multi-level public spaces will be positioned steps from an integrated regional transport hub and the Qianhai Bay.

Both towers are defined by gently leaning volumes that taper towards the sky – a subtle gesture that adds structural efficiency while creating verdant openings between the volumes and a generous ground-floor public realm. The lush biophilia on the balconies and ledges contrasts the glass facades that shimmer subtly throughout the passing of the day.

“Both towers are conceived as simple prismatic building envelopes split open to make room for public space on the ground where they stand. The open seams and gaping corners allow the green spaces to ascend from the ground to the sky leaving wedges for outdoor gardens and terraces for the life of the people living and working within. With its timeless simplicity and inviting openness - the architecture of the two towers is firmly rooted in the urban values underpinning Shenzhen - a vertical modern city of 1000 parks.” Bjarke Ingels, Founder & Creative Director, BIG.

The ground plane of the towers opens up to create a dynamic and welcoming urban living room while connecting the towers to the ‘green belt’ and nearby shopping mall. A meandering biophilic pedestrian skybridge functions as a canopy, providing shade and protection from the rain while connecting the shopping mall, the retail podium, and the surrounding neighborhood.

Peeking through the building envelope openings, cascading green terraces are introduced from the street level and up to the roof, where office workers and visitors can enjoy 360-degree views of Qianhai Bay. PV cells are integrated in the slightly tilted office tower’s West and East façade spandrel to maximize the PV efficiency. To better respond to the local climate achieving and improving thermal performance, double-skin closed-cavity façade (CCF) is used for the most exposed orientation of office tower. The apartment tower units have operable ventilation inlets built into the window frames to allow for natural ventilation.

The tripod footprint of the 130,760 m2 residential tower is a radial array of three rectangular volumes that step up at different heights - providing multiple views towards the city and the ocean while creating beautiful living spaces, ‘sky garden’ terraces, and a roofscape. Between the volumes, the envelope opens up to create a subtle crevice of green balconies, from the ground level to the roofs.

From the interior of the tower, the corners peel open to create outdoor terraces on every floor. The west tower wall extends slightly skywards to reiterate the leaning gesture – delicately joining the remaining three walls/envelopes to create a sculptural addition to the skyline.

“As the tower footprints open to the ground, they celebrate the connectivity to the transit infrastructure, retail and adjacent buildings. Pedestrian walkways connect multiple stories to provide seamless transitions between the towers and the surrounding public programs, forming a pedestrian network that leads up to the Qianhai Bay Waterfront Park.” says Martin Voelkle, Partner in Charge, BIG.

The ground floor wayfinding takes inspiration from the Qianhai Bay, oftentimes appearing as a series of ripples while facilitating the flow of people through the entrances in and around the towers. The public realm of the ground floor office tower includes an amphitheater, tree-shaded social spaces, and an under-porch bar. In response to the climatic characteristics of the region activities are located under the canopy, trees and overhangs of the building. Rainwater is collected via the sloped curtain walls, utilized for irrigation system and maintenance of the public space.

Both towers are strategically positioned between the two intercity railways; the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Intercity Railway is at the east side of the site, and the proposed Hong Kong-Shenzhen Western Express Railway will be at the west side of the residential tower. An adjacent below-grade retail corridor will provide both towers with direct access to the Transportation Hub via the below-grade lobbies. To complement the accessibility of the transport hub, an additional 966 long-term bicycle parking spaces will be available for building occupants.

The Qianhai Prisma Towers, expected to begin construction in 2025, will be BIG’s second project in Shenzhen following Shenzhen Energy Mansion’s completion in 2017.


PROJECT FACTS

Name: Qianhai Prisma Towers
Size: Residential Tower: 130,760 m2; Office Tower: 110,697 m2
Location: Qianhai, Shenzhen
Client: Shenzhen Metro

PROJECT TEAM
Partners-in-Charge: Bjarke Ingels, Martin Voelkle, Douglass Alligood Bjarke Ingels Group
Project Manager: Flora Bao
Project Architect: David Holbrook
Design Lead: Ricardo Palma
Team: Amie Yao, Bianca Blanari, Chris Tron, Eric Li, Florencia Kratsman, Jacob Li, Margaret Tyrpa, Mama Wu, Ryan Duval, Shu Du, Sungmin Kim, Yanan Ding, Yao Tong, Yimin Wu, Zhonghan Huang.
Collaborators: CADG (local architect), BPI (Lighting), ARUP (Fire Safety), Buro Happold (Traffic, Sustainability, VT), RFR (Façade, BMU), Thornton Tomasetti (Structure), Turenscape (Landscape), CADG (Architecture, MEP), Atchain (Visuals), RJ Model (Physical Model)
Rendering/Pictures by BIG-Atchain

Open 366,primo edificio italiano che non disperde CO2, ma la cattura e la ricicla
Il nuovo edificio per uffici in viale Sarca a Milano è una declinazione contemporanea degli archetipi architettonici del contesto e si inserisce in continuità con lo sviluppo del quartiere Bicocca, ex area industriale a nord-est della città, di cui l’edificio assorbe la gamma di cromie nella struttura di facciata.

Il volume si costruisce come un rettangolo, interessato a piano terra e all’ultimo piano da svuotamenti che lo rendono permeabile equiparando entrambi i fronti dell’edificio. Al quarto e ultimo piano un terrazzo interrompe la sequenza regolare dei piani, aprendo la vista verso sud e verso la città. Il fronte dell’edificio nella sua parte più stretta, si inclina in un prospetto che guarda la città e il flusso dalla metropolitana, accogliendo utenti e visitatori in un perimetro aperto e spazioso.

Il disegno della facciata riassume e interpreta gli elementi morfologici degli edifici circostanti. Con l’uso ripartito di lesene e marcapiani in fibrocemento colorato nella sfumatura arancio-rosata che ricorda il mattone, il fronte appare linearmente ritmato sia orizzontalmente che verticalmente, in equilibrio tra aperture in vetro a tutto o doppio piano e telaio strutturale in facciata. Gli uffici, in gran parte open-space, usufruiscono delle grandi aperture verso l’esterno, offrendo una vista telescopica verso tutti i fronti ai loro occupanti.

La hall, uno spazio vetrato, ampio e luminoso, circondato dal verde, si trova nello spazio porticato che collega i due lati lunghi dell’edificio. Per dimensioni e disegno, la hall può ospitare una o più reception ed è pensata come un ambiente in equilibrio e continuità con l’esterno dell’edificio, grazie al colore e ai materiali usati, sospesi tra high-tech e citazioni post-industriali.

The Milan-based studio has collaborated with the Fendi Maison to design an architecture that disappears into the landscape, placing itself in open dialogue with the surrounding nature.

A raised garden conceived to mend a long-standing rift in the terrain and recreate the hillside of the site in which it is located. This is what the new Fendi production building in Bagno a Ripoli (FI) looks like, whose design concept was conceived and developed by the Milan-based Piuarch studio and subsequently continued and coordinated by Fendi's Architecture Department.

A complex of about 14,000 square metres rising in the Tuscan countryside, conceived around a high standard of landscaping and advanced energy efficiency, the brainchild of the Maison that seeks to combine the excellence of its product with the creation of an architectural landmark having significant aesthetic and environmental value.

Piuarch interprets this concept in a project that becomes an integral part of its surroundings rather than a mere graft.

Starting from an innovative approach, the firm designed a building that stretches horizontally over a single level to create a free form driven by the needs of the production process. The practicality of the spaces thus becomes the conceptual principle of the site plan, which combines different functions, merging them into fluid pathways that run horizontally through it.

A sort of backbone connecting the spaces, with transparent walls, also visually unites the different uses while encouraging people to move around and socialise.

The complex will house management and administrative offices, a restaurant, a production warehouse, workshops and a school for haute leather goods, with the intent of fully expressing the exceptional quality and high standards of the luxury brand.

The project concept, defined in the initial phase together with landscape architect Antonio Perazzi, aims to define the conditions for a renewed visual collaboration between architecture and environment. The characteristics of the site, impacted by the logic of relying on the brick industry and the quarry once functioning on the lot, required restoration work and prompted the idea of interpreting the construction of the production complex as an opportunity to establish positive land management dynamics. "Working with Piuarch is always very stimulating: it is easy to get on the same wavelength straight away, building together a project that respects ecological and aesthetic themes, capable of designing cultured and refined landscapes." Antonio Perazzi, landscape architect.

The architecture thus establishes an open dialogue with its natural surroundings: the building, apparently underground owing to the landscaping choice of creating a continuous and extensive green roof, becomes an integrated ecological system that recreates the contours of the land to restore the shape of the original hillside.

A vast roof garden that fulfils not only an environmental but also a social and community role, becoming a user-friendly space and a venue for employees to socialise.

The green roof, hollowed out by patios that disrupt its continuity and light up the interior spaces, thus stands out as a hallmark of the project. A feature that brings the identity and role of the new production site to the surrounding area, with which it establishes an unprecedented system of counterbalances: ventilation and natural light, use of materials that evoke the colours of the location, transparent external and internal walls, all ensure a visual and physical, almost osmotic exchange between the artificial and natural environments, between the interior and exterior.

From the green roof, to the courtyards, to the industrial park surrounding it, the idea was to transform the entire site into a new and extended garden, also with the purpose of improving the quality of the working spaces, to reinforce the priority of the client's work: a commitment to increasing responsibility towards the environment and society.

LA NUOVA SEDE S.PELLEGRINO
Il Gruppo S.Pellegrino annuncia la loro proposta per la nuova casa di S. Pellegrino nel cuore di Bergamo,un’autentica estensione della razionale e funzionale architettura dell’impianto esistente, dove l’acqua naturale minerale viene imbottigliata dal 1899.

Localizzato nella valle Brembana fra il fiume Brembo e i piedi delle Alpi, la nostra proposta abbraccia e migliora l’architettura esistente formando un elegante cornice che permetterà ai visitatori di sperimentare il potere e la purezza delle natura alpina circostante.

Il design si sviluppa intorno a un celebre elemento architettonico: l’arco. Il semplice e chiaro tratto dell’espandersi e contrarsi degli archi attraverso il campus, creando una moltitudine di spazi ed esperienze. I visitatori e i dipendenti camminano attraverso volte maestose, tunnel coperti, arcate e pergolati verdi che incorniciano la storia e l’eredità del brand. La serialità dell’architettura rivelerà parti delle montagne circostanti dalle cime innevate al fiume che scorre ai piedi delle montagne. Al centro del campus, una gigante biopsia geologica mostrerà il viaggio trentennale che deve percorrere l’acqua per acquisire i minerali e raggiungere la purezza che rende così unica l’acqua S. Pellegrino. Il nuovo Campus S. Pellegrino apparirà disciplinato ma allo stesso tempo fluido, scuro ma trasparente, unificante ma diversificato, classico ma contemporaneo. Celebrando sia la tradizione che l’evoluzione l’architettura del nuovo campus riflette i valori S. Pellegrino Terme così come i valori fondanti del Gruppo Sanpellegrino: Purezza, Trasparenza e Naturalità.

Dichiarazione dell'architetto:

“Formato dalla curve sinuose del fiume Brembo e alle pendenze delle montagne circostanti, la nostra proposta per il nuovo Campus S. Pellegrino eredita la sua struttura narrativa dai paesaggi della valle Brembana. Come un’equivalente acquatica di una cantina di vini, le arcate che si susseguono espandendo e contraendo l’ambiente creano una cornice narrativa per la purezza e la trasparenza dell’acqua minerale, in un ambiente caratterizzato dalla luminosità, apertura e trasparenza.
L’architettura degli elementi artificiali è avvolta e potenziata delle forze della natura, attingendo dalla razionalità ritmica dal patrimonio industriale, eliminando la tradizionale segregazione fra fronte e retro, creando una continuità tra produzione e consumo, preparazione e godimento.” Bjarke Ingels, Founding Partner, BIG

Open 336 - primo palazzo Net Carbon Zero a Milano

Inaugurato il 28 settembre a Milano il primo palazzo Net Carbon Zero. Si chiama Open 336, dal civico dove è posizionato in viale Sarca, nel quartiere Bicocca, ed è il primo edificio milanese che cattura anidride carbonica e rilascia ossigeno. Progettato dallo studio di architettura Park Associati per la società di investimento americana Barings Real Estate, rappresenta un modello per la città sostenibile del futuro.

Il nuovo edificio per uffici in viale Sarca a Milano è una declinazione contemporanea degli archetipi architettonici del contesto e si inserisce in continuità con lo sviluppo del quartiere Bicocca, ex area industriale a nord-est della città, di cui l’edificio assorbe la gamma di cromie nella struttura di facciata.

Il volume si costruisce come un rettangolo, piano terra e ultimo piano interessati da svuotamenti che lo rendono permeabile equiparando entrambi i fronti dell’edificio. Al quarto e ultimo piano un terrazzo interrompe la sequenza regolare dei piani, aprendo la vista verso sud e verso la città. Il fronte dell’edificio nella sua parte più stretta, si inclina in un prospetto che guarda la città e il flusso dalla metropolitana, accogliendo utenti e visitatori in un perimetro aperto e spazioso.

Il disegno della facciata può essere considerato un riassunto e un'interpretazione degli elementi morfologici degli edifici circostanti. Con l’uso ripartito di lesene e marcapiani in fibrocemento colorato nella sfumatura arancio-rosata che ricorda il mattone, il fronte appare linearmente ritmato sia orizzontalmente che verticalmente, in equilibrio tra aperture in vetro a tutto o doppio piano e telaio strutturale in facciata. Gli uffici, in gran parte open-space, usufruiscono delle grandi aperture verso l’esterno, offrendo una vista telescopica verso tutti i fronti ai loro occupanti.

La hall, uno spazio vetrato molto ampio e luminoso, circondato dal verde, si trova nello spazio porticato che collega i due lati lunghi dell’edificio; può ospitare una o più reception ed è pensata come un ambiente in equilibrio e continuità con l’esterno dell’edificio, grazie al colore e ai materiali usati, sospesi tra high-tech e citazioni post-industriali.

Photo credits: Park Associati

Milano | Sella Nuova – Aggiornamento SeiMilano: fine luglio 2022

Aggiornamento fotografico di fine luglio 2022 dal cantiere di SeiMilano in costruzione nel distretto di Sella Nuova in via Bisceglie e via dei Calchi Taeggi, in prossimità della Stazione M1 Bisceglie. Sempre nel grande progetto del nuovo quartiere sarà ricavato un nuovo grande parco pubblico che coprirà una vasta area del complesso, sino al confine comunale con Cesano Boscone.

l progetto, a firma dello studio Studio Mario Cucinella Architects (MCA), prevede la realizzazione di circa 1000 residenze, in edilizia libera e convenzionata, 30.000 mq di uffici e circa 10.000 mq di funzioni commerciali. Il nuovo parco pubblico di oltre 16 ettari, sarà progettato dal paesaggista Michel Desvigne. Lo sviluppo è frutto della partnership tra Borio Mangiarotti e Värde Partners.

Qui di seguito alcune immagini dell’area di Park West, il comparto terziario in fase di realizzazione nella parte Nord-Est del complesso, dove la via Bisceglie si incrocia con via dei Calchi Taeggi in direzione della stazione della M1 Bisceglie. Il progetto è sempre di MCA, mentre la proprietà in questo caso è di Dea Capital Real Estate SGR, che ha selezionato Dils e Jll in qualità di broker.

Si tratta di 3 edifici a destinazione terziario/commerciale più un parcheggio interrato:
TOWER A (16 piani – 16.506mq)
TOWER B (10 piani – 10.989mq)
TOWER C (7 piani – 7.260 mq)