Testi 223
Awards
BLT Built Design Awards 2024
Winner Project
The Plan Award 2024
Finalist
In/Arch Lombardia 2023
Winner Project
Piranesi Award 2023
Selected Project
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Testi 223
The project enhances and restores a complex dating back to the 1950s, originally intended as a school-workshop for the children of Pirelli employees. It consists of a building with classrooms and a brick factory with metal shed roofs. In the 1990s, the building underwent modifications that almost completely erased its original character. The new proposal recognizes the potential of the original structural module, which is reclaimed, updated, and reconfigured into a new layout, aligning the building with the brick structure and demolishing a portion of the connecting building. The appearance of the building is rejuvenated with the addition of a metal facade that reinterprets the partitioning and features of the existing building, achieving a new harmony and proportion between the components of the structure.
The intervention rediscovers the dimensions and structural modules, the spatial qualities with an industrial character that the original complex possessed.
The project works on enhancing the typological and constructive characteristics of the existing buildings, achieved through an elegant contemporary rewriting of the architectural ensemble.
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