The project moves from the intention of creating a strongly symbolic and progressive building capable of delivering a new sign of great optimism starting from the center of one of the most ancient cities of the world.
The idea is of building it using as falsework for the external cement walls recycled armaments, casually thrown and compressed inside the formworks. Suffice a quick calculation of the total volume of the external perimetrical walls to verify that we could compress in them 500 tanks, 2500 missiles, 97000 rifles! If we ordinarily used this technology for constructing, with a few buildings, we could easily recycle the production of a whole year of Europe’s armaments.
The plot chosen is the plot A, which is entirely occupied by the outline of the building. Apparently closed and monolithic, the building is, in point of fact, crossed by a complex system of inner open spaces that connect horizontally and vertically the different levels. All of these voids form the lymphatic system of the whole building, ensure the necessary functional connections and distribute everywhere the light: natural and artificial, zenithal and non. Many of these spaces are conceived as inner squares, some are paved, others as lawns, overlooking the city with different and significant views. Thus, the contrast between the strong external walls formed by cement and pressed armaments, and the open spaces green and full of light – in which the building’s users will move everyday – is highly emphasized.
Significant prerogative of the project is the quality and habitable use of the inner spaces and working spaces. Office Spaces on the second floor are represented in the third plate. In an obsessively white and luminous space, characterized by big windows overlooking the city or the system of inner voids, the single workstations are realized with a mobile and flexible division system. Every single employee is potentially able to modify its own workstation by simply sliding it: a membrane in shape memory fabric accompanies -as a fluid – the system of the mobile furniture, transforming the connective spaces in something always different and in continuous apparent change.