BNL-BNP Paribas Headquarters / 5+1AA Alfonso Femia Gianluca Peluffo

Architects

5+1AA Alfonso Femia Gianluca Peluffo
Location

Roma Tiburtina, 00162 Roma, Italy
Architect in Charge

Alfonso Femia, Gianluca Peluffo, Simonetta Cenci
Work Team

Alfonso Femia, Alessandro Bellus
Area

75000.0 m2
Project Year

2016
Photographs

Luc Boegly

Client/Owner

BNP Paribas Real Estate
Project Directors

Alessandro Bellus, Marco Corazza, Gabriele Filippi, Francesca Raffaella Pirrello
Design Team

Alfonso Femia, Gianluca Peluffo, Simonetta Cenci, Annalura Spalla, Alessandro Bellus, Marco Corazza, Gabriele Filippi, Marzia Menini, Sara Sartini, Maria Michela Scala, Daniele di Matteo, Sara Massa, Vanesa Carbajo Fernandez, Roberta Nardi, Francesca Zampetti
Collaborators

Gianmatteo Ferlin, Michela Lucariello, Paolo Oliva, Eleonora Zinghinì, Etienne Bourdais, Stefano Cioncoloni
Net usable Area

39.000 m2
Cost

83 M euro
Environmental certifications

BBC Classe A Cened Certi cation Leed Gold

Text description provided by the architects. The design of the new headquarters of BNL is part of a particular and unique context. Unique because the nature of the context is a layering of infrastructures that are separated by two important urban areas of the city of Rome, thanks to the construction of the station for high-speed rail, which leads to a new role, not only in terms of services service but also as “urban place”. Particular because the area where the new building will stand, due to its geometric shape and topography and its relative orientation, suggests to design the building according to the principle of “Janus”. We consider it important that the new building develops a dialogue with the adjacent complex of Tiburtina railway station, with its main features characterized by size and horizontality. The dialogue does not necessarily have to be direct, but should have references both to perspectives and to the different levels of the station, and also a different role (the horizontal stratification) in the new urban landscape.

Our goal is to meet the functional needs with a building that is capable, in its autonomy and identity, to belong to the urban context of the Tiburtina Station and at the same time to be representative both for the city of Rome and for its users.

From these considerations, a proposal is made for a building that is able to relate differently to the north-west with the district Pietralata and south-east with the Tiburtina Station complex. Dynamic, reflective and fading, where its perception is mainly dynamic and different meter after meter (from the train, from the station, from the different areas of the city), almost as if it was moving, comparatively, where the context is urban or “slow”, facing North, the perception is static transparent and material.

The building thus assumes different roles leading our imagination to important works of contemporary artists and filmmakers who have treated the themes of perception and "reflection" of reality.