2024-11-21T13:42:05-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150163926/big-s-s-pellegrino-factory-of-the-future-is-underway Sean Joyner 2019-10-10T11:07:00-04:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/82/82a626d499215c235286dbdbce6169f6.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The construction for S.Pellegrino's&nbsp;<em>Factory of the Future</em> is underway. It began with a ceremony on September 27th as the "first stone was laid." At the ceremony, speeches and talks by the CEO of S.Pellegrino Sarzi Braga, <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/7054/bjarke-ingels" target="_blank">Bjarke Ingels</a>, and the Mayor of San Pellegrino Terme, Vittorio Millesi, according to a press release from the company.</p> <figure><figure><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/b3/b3b841932a7ae31eb61e435769045046.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/b3/b3b841932a7ae31eb61e435769045046.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a><figcaption>Image courtesy of BIG</figcaption></figure></figure><p>Back in 2017, <a href="https://archinect.com/bjarke-ingels-group" target="_blank">BIG</a> won the commission for the innovative factory after competing with three other international firms: <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/327/mvrdv" target="_blank">MVRDV</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://archinect.com/snohetta" target="_blank">Sn&oslash;hetta</a>, and Architetto Michele De Lucchi. "The main element for S.Pellegrino is the complete immersion into nature...this is like a new and very contemporary addition to the Brembo Valley, that also feels someway as if it has always been here," said the Bjarke Ingels about the project.</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/2f/2f67da695a2483e3b6590d83b884eb48.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/2f/2f67da695a2483e3b6590d83b884eb48.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image courtesy of BIG</figcaption></figure><p>The new building will include offices for staff, public spaces for the surrounding communities and tourists. In <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/149992578/big-s-winning-design-for-the-new-san-pellegrino-flagship-factory" target="_blank">a previous article</a> we wrote of the design's reinvention of elements of classic Italian ar...</p>