THE INDUSTRIAL STYLE:
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During the first inspection of the future office site, the real estate unit was completely disused and inside there were still the iron lockers of the personnel changing rooms, the workbenches, and all the off-track systems including the steel extractor hood. The industrial aspect of the previous activity has led us to keep this style which has been re-proposed during the renovation. Compared to the pre-existing situation, only a few parts of the ceiling without plaster, the gratings of the windows and the shutter boxes on the street were maintained, while all the rest was demolished.
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THE INTERNAL DIVISION:
After the internal demolitions were carried out, the entire real estate unit was distributed over a total area of approximately 65 square metres. Our working needs have led us to create a number of environments suitable for carrying out our professional activity. The idea was to create a very bright drawing room overlooking Via Mazzini in order to obtain visibility from the outside that would allow us to understand how a professional works in his sector, eliminating the stereotype of closed and muffled offices that we have always experienced get used to it. As can be seen from the plan alongside, the access to the studio has been obtained no longer from the street but from the condominium door. By placing the entrance and the waiting room in a central position of the building, it was easy to disengage all the rooms into which the studio is divided. In front of the entrance, a small closet has been created in a lost space where containers for separate waste collection are inserted and shelves where all the office stationery has been arranged. Entering to the right, the aforementioned drawing room has been created where the four workstations and the central table are located, where our team technically discusses the projects in progress. All the practices carried out for about 40 years now are arranged and ordered numerically in the archive room which is located in the middle between the drawing room and the meeting room; the whole archive has also been computerized on our platforms, to allow easy research among the different customers. In the inner part and in a decidedly reserved area, a large meeting room has been created equipped with a large monitor, used for the projection of documents, photos and projects in progress. The property is completed by a small toilet equipped with three sanitary appliances.
THE FLOORING was in a disastrous condition and consequently it was not possible to maintain it as it was too ruined and discontinuous. For the drawing room, a gray 90 x 90 cm tile was chosen that reproduces the effect of smooth and worn concrete, without joints and interspersed with an iron rod with improved adherence as a partition.
In the rest of the rooms, however, a tile was laid that reproduces the old cement tiles, in order to create an old and typological effect. At the point of contact between the two floors it was decided to create an irregular attachment that would provide a natural effect almost as if two contiguous floors had been discovered.
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THE INSTALLATIONS: it was deliberately decided to create the electrical and air conditioning system off track for two simple reasons. The first is of an aesthetic nature as the exposed ducts allow you to read the systems in their distribution and give the rooms characteristics typical of the chosen style. The second because the off-track system has greater versatility than the one built into the walls, in fact for future expansions of the existing lines or for the insertion of new ones, the intervention is simple as having the system visible allows you to do careful choices without carrying out masonry works. The new funnels join-
they will match the existing ones without creating blemishes of any kind; the lack of masonry works also allows not to intervene in terms of plasters and colors. As can be seen from the photos, the effect obtained is fully compatible with the character of the rooms and the systems fit well with the rest of the works. The materials used for the electrical system are smooth gray plastic corrugated pipes which, starting from the electrical panel, branch off into all the rooms from above.
The junction boxes, also in plastic material, have been housed in the upper part of the walls and the vertical descents carry the lines to the workstations and ceiling light points.
All lines have been suitably separated so that each sub-system will have its own dedicated line (electricity, telephone and network). The air conditioning consists of a large system of galvanized steel pipes with a diameter of about 50 centimeters which passes over all the rooms. An anemostat has been set up in each room which gives off heat evenly. The main machine has been installed in the archive room and from within it the pipes branch out to all the rooms.
FURNISHING AND DETAILS: in the choice of finishes, it was thought to divide the office into two different areas.
The first, located towards via Mazzini, has benefited from some typological elements that have been maintained such as the deteriorated ceiling, the beams, the pillars partly plastered and the internal shutter boxes on the street. The floors reproduce the concrete effect and the reinforcing rods placed in the joints suggest a smooth floor with the bars that came out as a result of this operation. The walls were painted with wax with a soft gray tone finished with the spatula which re-proposed a typical color of the plastered walls but without paint. To achieve an increasingly truthful effect, a new wall was covered with recomposed stone of various shades, producing the effect of an old wall found after its plastering and left exposed. In terms of furnishings, having a predominance of colors with gray connotations, it was decided to furnish the drawing room and workstations with black furnishing elements with steel legs and finishes for both tables and armchairs. The lighting fixtures are made of suspended modular tracks also in steel by arteluce, Halley model.
The innermost part is linked to the drawing room through well-defined typological elements, such as the visible systems and the flooring which has been blended between environment and environment. The finishes used are the same in all the rooms and are characterized by the uniformity of the floors made up of two-tone cement tiles and in the colors of the walls and ceilings. While for the drawing room it was not necessary to lower the ceiling thanks to the considerable size of the room in the other rooms it was necessary to interrupt the height (over 4.00 m) and it was decided to do it with electro-welded meshes that break it in two . In terms of furnishings, several references have been retained identified in the black color of the vertical profiles of the furniture, the steel of the legs of the chairs while the horizontal elements were made of light-colored wooden planks giving a pleasant effect that binds very well with the color cappuccino of the walls. In the entrance and in the meeting room you can see the steel air duct which gravitates to 2.70 m from the ground and which carries hot and cold air through the anemostats into the rooms. On the shelves and shelves retro objects, calculators and other modern objects. The lights used are identical to those installed in the drawing room.
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