Loro Parisini Building

The programme consisted of creating the new administrative areas and connecting them with the already existing laboratory buildings. The extension was carried out in the form of a bridge-building 150 metres long and superimposed on the existing structure, encompassing it within a new complex . On the ground floor, the intervention interprets the existing buildings as active elements in the new composition. These buildings, endowed with a new vitrified tile facing, become a plinth for the new extension and create a new relationship between solids and voids which underlines the access points into the complex and organises the interior layout of the factory. El programa consistió en crear las nuevas áreas administrativas y conectarlas con los edificios de laboratorio ya existentes. La extensión se llevó a cabo en forma de un puente de 150 metros de largo y superpuesto a la estructura existente, que lo abarca dentro de un nuevo complejo. En la planta baja, la intervención interpreta los edificios existentes como elementos activos en la nueva composición. Estos edificios, dotados de un nuevo revestimiento de azulejos vitrificados, se convierten en un zócalo para la nueva extensión y crean una nueva relación entre sólidos y vacíos que subraya los puntos de acceso al complejo y organiza el diseño interior de la fábrica. The solid appearance of the old, newly faced buildings offsets the light glass and metal structure of the superimposed extension, underlying the suspension and the structural, functional and material independence of the upper floor. On this level, the facade is developed almost uninterruptedly at a constant rhythm. A continuous corridor leads off on both side to offices and other rooms, opening at one end (the rear) into the cafetería and kitchens. At the front end it leads to the board room.