ANTIBIOTIC

The project involved a context characterized by workers’ houses made of bricks, neatly arranged in a row, with  gardens and orchards, that were built  together with an industrial settlement. The old residence for bachelors is trasformed into flats and terraced houses.

The aim was to don’t change the original rhythm of facades that seemed very studied and researched, although its simplicity (this is a project of the architect Gio Ponti): the elevations were characterized by alternating between  walls in brick and hollow walls in plaster with window openings.

The building elevation has allowed us to concern the original structure as a basement on which to build the new addition, that is clear and formally independent.

The project envisaged to build terraces and roof windows with a new regular subdivision overlapping the existing one.

The historical phases are made clear by using zinc slabs cladding for the new addition and zinc-coated metal sheet for the railings. So the choise of a single material stresses the attention in those focus elements existing before the intervention.

Project design: ELASTICOFarm

Team:  Stefano Pujatti, Alberto Del Maschio, Marco Burigana, Valeria Brero, Corrado Curti, Daniele Almondo

Client: I.C.G.

Size: 1380 mq

Progress: Built

Structural design: INTE.CO. s.r.l.

Plant consultant: TSERVICE

Building contractor: Impresa Martorel s.r.l.