The expansion of the Immergas production centre is part of a process of company consolidation and rationalisation of the production areas that the company is promoting in order to strengthen its relationship with the territory of Emilia.
The project starts from a logic of complementarity and continuity with the urban and building history of the existing company site, trying to enhance its geometric, volumetric and material logic.
A project marked by the logic of continuity, process and production innovation, and a link with the place, which aims to strengthen the link between the company and the context with which it has always identified.
The building complex consists of two rectilinear blocks, parallel to the provincial road, connected to each other in a barycentric position and a double-height volume straddling the two.
The linear development of the building establishes a dialogue with the provincial road and articulates its façade according to a modular scansion rhythmised by the alternation of prefabricated concrete elements and glass mirrors on the work areas.
The innermost building will house the office and warehouse areas. The double-height volume, compact and monolithic, will be clad with sandwich-type metal panels, alternating with portions of shielding lamellas, which will add materiality to the surface of the façade, through a play of light and shadow.
The choice of a pavilion typology derives from the need to decentralise the activities which, due to their morphology and functional use, require large spaces and, at the same time, to keep them in close contact, guaranteeing reciprocal and synergic collaboration. Laboratories, offices supporting the laboratories and warehouses will therefore be able to relate to each other in an organic and coherent manner with respect to a functional distribution of space.
Monumentality and rigour come together in a building designed to convey architectural solidity and massiveness capable of interpreting the intentions of continuity and eternity to which architecture has always aspired.
A modern temple as a workplace: a pure architecture that stands out for its sharpness and clarity in the quietness of the Po Valley.
