GFT's new Turin headquarters is part of the former Fiat Engineering completed in the early 1980s by Ludovico Quaroni and Studio Passatelli, now home to offices and innovative realities.
The post-modern architecture of the building is perceptible in all its expressive force even inside: the large orange pillars of the fronts are distinctive elements that mark the working environments, while the windows frame and project the external facades inside the offices..
Also in this project the relationship with the container is the starting point of the project, which transformed the spaces working with immateriality. GFT offices occupy a particular space, very narrow and long, the proportions of which are further emphasized by the pressing rhythm of the orange pillars.
The first action of the project was to alter the perception of this space by working on the idea of threshold and generating an intermediate space between the outside world and the GFT world.
After the entrance and a large window on wooden frame, five cylinders, of different sizes and with different functions, create a kind of casba, with narrow passages and small areas where you can move in fluid and circular paths, entering and leaving.
These new volumes, while not touching the walls of the office and therefore not actively altering the narrow and long original spatiality, however, totally transform its perception, creating a completely new landscape.
Architecturally cylindrical volumes are neutral elements, covered in wood inside but externally white, with textured material surfaces that create a kind of rib.
Beyond this threshold, the office space then takes on a more classic conformation, with tables arranged serially and with great visual permeability.
