The building, a compact monolith of 12x30m and 7m tall, is a container for raw materials and works of art as well as a working space for the artist. The objective is a building thatbrings together two ideas: that of a craftsman’s working spacebut one that has an architectural imprint. The ‘poor’ concrete weds the two aspirations, it is industrial, but the project of the formworkin rough planks gives a glimpse of imprecision that lends expressivity. The language is radical, white concrete and huge iron door and window frames, all on one level, create the impression that everything is embedded in the formwork. To complete this rigorous discourse there are ‘plastic’ elements, the downspouts and the pedestrian ramp,which experiment with concrete’s potential to be moulded with an expressivity, on the border between architecture and art.
The Magazzinocan be considered a poetic manifesto, narrating a quest for beauty through the poetry of concrete things.
