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IPost Building by studiobv36
Architect Daniele Durante of studiobv36 in Italy has designed a new headquarters in Rome for the Italian postal service.
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Long volumes will be stacked in a staggered formation, forming cantilevered sections to shade large parts of the facade.
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Light will be reflected by white polycarbonate panels with triangular perforations, which will be sandwiched between layers of glass in the facade.
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There will be four different patterns with varying densities across the building's skin.
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Called IPost Building, the eight-storey project will house 600 employees.
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Construction is due to begin in January 2011.
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The text below is from the architect:
IPOST HEADQUARTERS BUILDING
The main starting point of the project is its strong relation with the urbanisation of the area, and its adjacency to a highly density block including Telecom building.
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These relations have pushed the project idea towards a dialogue with the urban scale, making the building like a “perspective block”, with a strong plastic impact.
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The choice of the block is defined by the exact urban alignments, that opening onto and prolonging itself towards the city, we tried to transform the urban block from a closed object into a different vertical sequence of variable plane elements.
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The building is composed of 8 volumes in linear development, placed one on one.
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The main facade on Via Semeria is shaded by jutting volumes.
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The solar exposition is checked by a particular technological system.
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Each glass facade is made up of three glass layer, in the layer between the two glass panels, we find a white polycarbonate panel made from special triangular matrix.
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This allows the light to reflect, thus checking the glare and storing heat.
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There are 4 panels with a different permeability, that give the building textural homogeneity and volumetric density with nuanced effect, from the ground floor until the last level.
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WINNING COMPETITION ENTRY 2008
EXPECTED COMPLETION 2013
Client: Istituto Postelegrafonici - IPOST
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Location: Rome
Program: new building for the IPOST headquarters
Status: International Design competition in two steps - First Classified
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Gross floor area: 7156 mq
Construction area: 15.894 mq
Construction cost: 30.000.000 euro
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Design: Daniele Durante_studiobv36
Consultants: Ai Engineering, Ai Studio
Design collaborators: Federico Pitzalis, Fabrizio Arrigoni, Claudio Cortese, Stefano Jacopini, Martina Telò.
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