The Food Container, remixed

Piazza Giacomo Matteotti, Marche, Italy

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The Food Container, remixed

Piazza Giacomo Matteotti, Marche, Italy

Firm

Spacelab Architects

Type

Commercial › Retail

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2008

SIZE

100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft

From box to hypercube?
This brand new commercial building
(surface: 2,500 m2) is a part of a wider urban district planned by
Spacelab Architects since 2006 in the city of Porto Sant`Elpidio –
middle Italy, in the course of completion. The client brief was to
realize the maximum formal impact in the limits of precast construction
and basic tipology dictated by the medium-commercial function. We
intended this limits as an occasion to conduct the modular precast
construction to new formal results.
Mixing two structural systems {precast
concrete grid + metal reticular truss}, the box resulting from urban
plan parameters {maximum surface and height} is complicated
in the entrance side by a prismatic intrusion in the
original volume, distinguished by using glass and other traslucent
materials instead to other opaque fronts.
The result is a distorsion of perception
near the main facade overlooking the public space, inside a more
basic/stereometric frame. The other sides are made by a custom precast concrete envelope, which module is denied by a continue
abstract texture visually connecting each panel to the contiguous.
Windows are obtaided by subtracting material inside the texture pattern.
©Spacelab Architects (Arch. Luca Silenzi,
arch. Roberto Sargo, arch. Zoè Chantall Monterubbiano, ing. Giampiero
Luzi), 2006-2008.