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Centro Edile Andrea Palladio

A structural skin evoking nature, like tree branches that by weaving themselves create a dynamic façade made of steel and glass. The arches on the ground floor evoke the architecture of the Renaissance, and suggest the idea of an ethical and emotional architecture. Steel and glass together, combined as something organic and dynamic, allow the building to be in harmony with the context in which it is located. This building generates a metamorphosis with its surroundings because it reflects and emphasizes it’s beauty merging it with the context.
A first layer of “smart pipes” leads the air from outside to inside the building while a second layer uses rainwater collection tanks positioned on the roof of the building and spread, as roots of a tree, in the whole building.

 
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Status: Built
Additional Credits: Architecture: Francesco Lipari
Project team: Francesco Lipari, Vanessa Todaro, Pierpaolo Pugliano, Gianni Esposito
Location: Vicenza
Client: Centro Edile Andrea Palladio
Timing: design 2009