The new Diesel Headquarters is located in an area previously occupied by a mechanical industrial plant. The project can be defined a low-rise hybrid building which keeps together different functional programs: offices, warehouses, exhibition spaces, an auditorium, a kindergarten, a canteen, a fitness center in addition to covered parking car and technological plants.
The result is a small creative town whose community shares working spaces but also common ones, those where emerge the effective sense of working together and sharing different skills.
This led us to conceive the intervention as a real urban project, crossed by streets and articulated into several squares: the result is a state of exceptional functional density within the scattered sprawl that characterizes the entire region.
This makes it immediately recognizable without using any formal complication. For this reason we wanted to create neither a landmark or an icon-building. We have been working, instead, on the concept of “locus” in order to make clear the role of this island into a regional scale, into the larger metropolitan archipelago.
SUSTAINABILITY
According to LEED protocol the project developed several technical solutions addressing six category of analysis:
1-Sustainable construction site
2- Efficient water management
3- Energy and atmosphere
4- Materials and resources
5- Quality of internal spaces
6- Design and innovation
Hence the design concept of the entire complex strictly adheres to issues of environmental sustainability and corporate responsibility. Environmental impact and employee comfort were evaluated through an extensive analysis of the site, water consumption, sustainable energy solutions, materials use and performance, and air climate quality.
The result we achieved is an industrial complex at the forefront in the application of technological solutions (photovoltaic system, green roofs, trigeneration system, meteoric water collecting system), in civil structural design and detailing (lightweight floors and ceilings, high-performance opaque and transparent exteriors), in centralized management and control systems (regulation of external roller blinds and steerable wooden solar shading devices), and in controlling interior conditions for a healthy and comfortable climate (employee facilities with low sound pressure levels and acoustic insulation, air ventilation via chilled beam devices, radiant heat systems in large floor-space areas).
This environmental sensitivity and its applications awarded the architectural complex a Class A energy efficiency standing by the Milan Polytechnic University, who provided consulting services on the appropriate certification of sustainability.
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