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This brand new commercial building {surface: 2.500 m2} is a part of a wider urban district planned by Spacelab Architects 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 glass 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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PROJECT DATA

PROJECT: Food Container_Remixed (commercial/retail building)

LOCATION. Sant'Elpidio, Fermo (Italy)

ARCHITECT IN CHIEF: Spacelab architects (Luca Silenzi)

IN COLLABORATION WITH: Roberto Sargo, Zoè Chantall Monterubbiano

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING : Giampiero Luzi

BUILDING MANAGEMENT : arch. Luca Silenzi, arch. Roberto Sargo

CONTRACTOR : G.I.L. Costruzioni, Porto San Giorgio (Italy)

CONSTRUCTION SYSTEM : Precast concrete + metal structure; custom made precast exterior enclosure panels

COVERINGS AND ENVELOPE : Crystal+aluminum courtain-wall system; precast concrete slabs covering

INTERIORS : concrete, aluminum

DESIGN TIME : 2006-2007

CONSTRUCTION TIME : opening oct 2008

PLOT SURFACE : 7200 m2

BUILDING SURFACE : 2600 m28

Spacelab Architects Philosophy

Spacelab Architects is an Italian architectural design studio specializing in architecture, landscape design, urban development and with some productive experiences in industrial design.
"Spacelab" was founded by Luca Silenzi and Zoe Chantall Monterubbiano architects in 2002 as an evolution of the former firm LS+ZChM architects, on the stage by 1993. From 2008, Spacelab is a partnership including in the original core Roberto Sargo (architect) and Giampiero Luzi (engineer).
The name "Spacelab" is referring to the spatial essence of architecture and design discipline: the office is intended as an architectural and design research laboratory, guided by a continue development and refinement of rough ideas into excellent results and performances. We developed an highly flexible methodological approach, which incorporates parametric designing and collaborations with specialists in other disciplines, combining programmatic requirements, construction and subsidiary studies into an integrated design.
Based in Fermo, middle Italy, the office has worked internationally since its inception and produced a wide range of work ranging from public buildings, infrastructure, offices, residential, products, to urban masterplans.
Architecture from Spacelab is derived from research in which questions of organizational structures take centre position, paying attention to new building industry production methods, and with the contribution of new design techniques, to approach the complex nature of the architectural and urban project with smart working strategies: excellence and integration, with a not-banal approach to the context.