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Architects: Buratti+Battiston Architects
- Year: 2009
Text description provided by the architects. The project is a renovation of a building previously used as garage and cars store, a prefabricated structure of ’60, converted in a showroom for BMW and MINI brands.
![Commercial Building Fratelli Cozzi Auto / Buratti+Battiston Architects - Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5007/5df8/28ba/0d41/4800/1fd0/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1360742641)
The project is focused on the definition of the building external image, besides reorganizing the layout and viability of whole area, pointing to develop a new urban quality.
![Commercial Building Fratelli Cozzi Auto / Buratti+Battiston Architects - Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5007/5e24/28ba/0d41/4800/1fd5/medium_jpg/stringio.jpg?1360742677)
This is a “section” project, meaning that the main theme is about designing three new different sections for three different facades of the building. “Folded sections”, each one defined by three different slopes, vertical-folded-folded, joined in “diamond edges”: the street facade, more urban, is completely embossed; the lateral side is made for pedestrians designing a giant portico; the back side is a car shelter made as deep as allowed.
![Commercial Building Fratelli Cozzi Auto / Buratti+Battiston Architects - Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5007/5dee/28ba/0d41/4800/1fcf/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1360742635)
The whole building is made by white aluminium, with a rhythm gave by panel’s joints.
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