The main purpose of the project is the overall reorganisation of an area used for the production of electrical converters, located in an industrial compound along the Cassanese state highway, east of Milan. The main idea is to define the boundaries of the production site by building a continuous wall to create a feeling of an enclosed urban block. The building “thickens” this wall near the angle, separating the internal space from the external one, with an internal garden and public spaces along the street . The project foresees research spaces on the ground floor, withdrawn and facing the internal garden and offices on the second floor. The volume folds around the angle and stretches out with two bodies, characterized by a continuous glass façade: the first body, facing the birch garden, is designed to be used for directors’ offices, while the second one, facing the street, will be used for the operating offices. On the far west side, in direction of the state road, the volume becomes a vertical body, with the tower hosting the technical stations. The metal skin, constituted by shaped and drilled sheet metal in opaque stainless steel, envelopes the building entirely like a curtain, thus conferring to the volume a balanced character, where the opaque and transparent portions are ambiguously defined. The skin filters the light into the building at different opening degrees, depending on the exposure to the sun and the degree of intimacy desired in the interior.
photo by Filippo Romano. ©Onsitestudio. Published on April 22, 2013.
photo by Filippo Romano. ©Onsitestudio. Published on April 22, 2013.
photo by Filippo Romano. ©Onsitestudio. Published on April 22, 2013.
photo by Filippo Romano. ©Onsitestudio. Published on April 22, 2013.
photo by Filippo Romano. ©Onsitestudio. Published on April 29, 2013.
photo by Filippo Romano. ©Onsitestudio. Published on April 29, 2013.
photo by Filippo Romano. ©Onsitestudio. Published on April 29, 2013.
photo by Filippo Romano. ©Onsitestudio. Published on April 22, 2013.