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16 | Office Building in Italy

16 | Office Building in Italy
Federico Farinatti

Sustainable prefabricated construction for an office building

Our latest office project involves renovating a 60's building and adjoining a new extension to wrap up the original volume. Rather than opting for a completely new construction, we agreed with the client to reuse and extend their former office to achieve their strict sustainability targets.

photo_credit Federico Farinatti
Federico Farinatti
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We wanted to find a new way of using broad workplaces, somewhere between the absolute open space layout typically adopted by some American corporations and the more classical box-adjoining strategy. We came up with the idea of not defining the areas occupied by the distinct departments: we proposed instead to use the 98-meter-long building as a gradient from the quietest to the most rumorous tasks on the x-axis and from the slowest to the fastest activities on the y-axis, providing spaces for connection, isolation, and execution. The result is a flexible workspace that offers various layouts, emphasizing employees' ability to choose their work style.

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Despite material shortages, we optimized sourcing options and directly involved the client's workforce for specific assembly phases.

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