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Architects: Elastico Farm
- Area: 580 m²
- Year: 2007
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Photographs:Beppe Giardino, Marco Boella
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Text description provided by the architects. The project involves the total re-development of a nineenth-century house forming part of an unbroken street front, plus the creation within the inner garden of a new structure. The aim to give clear and confident expression to the presence of an unusual facility within an urban context that is, at the moment, rather a jumble of surviving rural building and more recent development.
![Atelier Fleuriste / Elastico Farm - Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/55cb/f34f/e58e/ce5c/7d00/03c9/newsletter/marco_boella_(0).jpg?1439429442)
The project envisages the creation of exhibition spaces, shops, housing and other areas of flexible use that can be adapted to the varying needs of the clients.
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The two blocks concerned are very different from a formal point of view: one is envisaged as a large showcase/piazza giving onto Via Andezeno; the other is a sort of free-standing pavilion within the garden, which is open to the public and can be glimpsed from the road.
![Atelier Fleuriste / Elastico Farm - Facade, Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/55cb/f373/e58e/ce67/c100/03f7/medium_jpg/beppe_giardino_(2).jpg?1439429474)
The redevelopment of the street-front structure envisages the maintenance of all the various characteristic features of the central portion (vaulted roofing, window/door frames, plasterwork and decoration). To the sides, the outline of the original building will be changed by a floor-to-roof window looking towards the street and a shimmering surface of copper installed on the countryard side of the structure. The interior is open and hinges around a central space that reaches all the way to the roof.
![Atelier Fleuriste / Elastico Farm - Windows, Brick, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/55cb/f385/e58e/ce5c/7d00/03ca/newsletter/marco_boella_(1).jpg?1439429495)
Crossed by walkways, that space is intended to contain largescale light installations. The window wall will be cooled by a thin veil of water that will transform the entire front of the building into one monumental fountain. Thus the street becomes a sort of piazza, a public space that is a point of reference for the entire urban context.
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For its part, the pavilion within the garden - a fluid and articulated volume raised on large concrete pillars - is faced with rough brick that gives it a very tactile quality.
![Atelier Fleuriste / Elastico Farm - Windows, Facade, Glass, Handrail](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/55cb/f39a/e58e/ce67/c100/03f8/newsletter/beppe_giardino_(3).jpg?1439429512)
Finally, the garden itself. This will also contain a public parking space for those visiting the atelier. Thanks to sliding glass panels, this garden can also be linked directly with the large open space within the shopping/exhibition area; hence it becomes the ideal location of open-air installations and events.