Agostini Shoes / MIDE architetti

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  • Architects: MIDE architetti
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  600
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2017
  • Photographs
    Photographs:Alessandra Bello
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Artemide, FLOS, VitrA
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Agostini Shoes  / MIDE architetti  - Exterior Photography, Facade
© Alessandra Bello

Text description provided by the architects. The intervention involves an existing productive building, located along a busy commercial route of Noventa Padovana, in the eastern rural area of Padua. The late 900’s architectural body is composed of a compact large vaulted volume, in which a third is occupied by a two-storey directional block and two-thirds by a double high space hosting the workshop.

Agostini Shoes  / MIDE architetti  - Exterior Photography
© Alessandra Bello
Agostini Shoes  / MIDE architetti  - Exterior Photography, Facade
© Alessandra Bello

Although the project considered demolishing the existing partitions, the design intention was to retain the original internal configuration. The office and dressing rooms block is composed of a two-storey load-bearing steel framework, completed with perimetral plasterboard partitions and featured by large glazed openings that visually connect the directional upper level with the open space of the workshop.

Agostini Shoes  / MIDE architetti  - Interior Photography, Handrail
© Alessandra Bello
Agostini Shoes  / MIDE architetti  - Interior Photography, Shelving
© Alessandra Bello

The ground level hosts restrooms, dressing rooms, equipment rooms, as well as a reception area leading towards the upper floor offices and showroom. The main front demanded a more detailed design study, as its immediate connection with the public spaces suggested that an iconic intervention could emphasise the productive and commercial role of the plant in the area.

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Plans

The façade was therefore conceived as a carved metal skin, opaque during the day and semi-transparent in the night, recalling the manufacture’s shoe textures by the ‘light perforations’.

Agostini Shoes  / MIDE architetti  - Exterior Photography, Facade
© Alessandra Bello

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Address:Noventa Padovana (PD), Italy

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Cite: "Agostini Shoes / MIDE architetti " 13 Oct 2021. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/970046/agostini-shoes-mide-architetti> ISSN 0719-8884

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