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New Italian space Agency headquarters
New Italian space Agency headquarters
Rome, Italy
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Other Projects by Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia
New Italian space Agency headquarters
Rome, Italy
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2012
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
BUDGET
$10M - 50M
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An outskirt that somebody calls Centrality. No urbanity. Huge prefab objects.
A project composed of simple, black volumes with different brightness, opacity, put one next to the other in an apparent balance. The moment before setting in motion. Or the exact suspension and pause moment during their movement.
The theme of the project is the search for equilibrium. A formal equilibrium based on dissociation. A building formed by different functions, a series of different bodies, needs to be built through a composing process involving the bodies themselves and the interstitial spaces, shaping the circulation system and the connections. The search for Synthesis, proper to the creative-projecting process, has to face this dilemma and solve it. Maybe thanks to a metaphor. The absence of gravity is the metaphor of this project: a joyful floating which suddenly founds a momentary balance. It is a dissociated balance, not based on symmetry, nor on weight balancing. It is based on masses suspension, representing a perceiving system of movement and connection. The black of the buildings, of different materials, but uniform, increases the feeling of not-belonging and the perception of a mysterious balance.
A project composed of simple, black volumes with different brightness, opacity, put one next to the other in an apparent balance. The moment before setting in motion. Or the exact suspension and pause moment during their movement.
The theme of the project is the search for equilibrium. A formal equilibrium based on dissociation. A building formed by different functions, a series of different bodies, needs to be built through a composing process involving the bodies themselves and the interstitial spaces, shaping the circulation system and the connections. The search for Synthesis, proper to the creative-projecting process, has to face this dilemma and solve it. Maybe thanks to a metaphor. The absence of gravity is the metaphor of this project: a joyful floating which suddenly founds a momentary balance. It is a dissociated balance, not based on symmetry, nor on weight balancing. It is based on masses suspension, representing a perceiving system of movement and connection. The black of the buildings, of different materials, but uniform, increases the feeling of not-belonging and the perception of a mysterious balance.
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