From box to hypercube.

This brand new commercial building {surface: 2.500 m2} is a part of a wider urban district planned from 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 made more complicated in the entrance side by a tridimensional prismatic intrusion in the original volume, distinguished by using glass and other traslucent materials in comparison 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 charaterized by a precast custom-made 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}, 2007-2008.

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