Food Container Remixed / Spacelab Architects

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Architects: Spacelab architects – Luca Silenzi
Location: Fermo, Italy
Collaborators: Roberto Sargo, Zoè Chantall Monterubbiano
Structural Engineering: Giampiero Luzi
Technical Inspection: arch. Luca Silenzi, arch. Roberto Sargo
Contractor: G.I.L. Costruzioni, Porto San Giorgio (Italy)
Constructive System: Precast + metal structure; custom made precast exterior enclosure panels
Project year: 2006-2007
Construction year: 2008
Site area: 7200 sqm
Constructed Area: 2600 sqm
Photographs: ©Luca Silenzi

From box to hypercube. This brand new commercial building is a part of a wider urban district planned from Spacelab Architecture 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 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.

 
 
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Beautiful photos.

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# December 19, 2008 at 18:47
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seefdublew says:

“Tridimensional prismatic intrusion”? Seriously?

 
# December 20, 2008 at 12:47
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lemodulor says:

@ seefdublew: maybe prismatic intrusion, certainly tridimensional. Very interesting, clear and refined.

 
# December 22, 2008 at 18:43
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seefdublew says:

@lemodulor: I was referring more to the bombastic tone of the writing, but on second reading, it seems more likely to just be a clumsy translation.

 
# December 24, 2008 at 03:17
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lemodulor says:

@ seefdublew: “translation”? “Fold” is the word ;)

 
# December 29, 2008 at 06:03
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zga says:

where are the photos of the interior?

 
# December 29, 2008 at 14:40
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i find this post informative and good to read, Thank you!

 
# February 21, 2009 at 13:20
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12:50 PM Jul 5th

Food container remixed: http://t.co/oa8Z4w7 #precast #concrete

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