place: Pordenone
client: Private
assignment: direct
architects: arch. Ado Furlan, arch. Vittorio Pierini
collaborator: arch. Gianluca Zanette
services supplied: project, construction management
project: 2005
construction: 2005/0207 concluso
note: mq 2100
photography: Studio furlan&pierini architetti
The shape, height and surface of the building are strictly defined by the building code. The site is an area placed at the intersection between various expressways in the outskirts of the city. The program calls for the construction of a commercial building including retail space. The “rules of the game” being thus defined, the building has emerged, and could not be otherwise, as a container, a box. The main elements of the design are contextual reading, the cladding of the box, its materials and colors. The building is wrapped in a double skin: silver-grey aluminium plate for the roof; dark grey aluminium plate and glass for the walls. The two layers are superposed, the former covers, the latter enwraps. The shape of the building recalls a hill, a body that the viewer perceives as intermediate between the flat landscape of the plain and the nearby mountains.
