This project is a
refurbishment of an industrial building.
This preliminary
design has two parts, the first one is public and aims to create a wide ground
floor with a covered patio which includes a lobby, a reception, offices and restaurants.
The second part
regards the rooms on the upper floors.
These latter were considered
an opportunity to investigate different kind of typologies.
According to the
budget restrictions and the run-down nature of the building, prefabricated elements aimed to synthetize all the room
program were proposed.
The three strategies
developed:
1. The curtain
room where the curtain integrates and separates the different areas, and
functions of the room.
2. The platform
room where a big folded plate generates different surfaces according to the different
uses.
3. The service
block room which cosists in the insertion
of an high tech precast block with all the facilities: entrance, closet,
bathroom.
At the end this latter was the typology chosen by
the client because cheaper, faster to
build and more conventional.