7 Wood boxes / Luca Compri
Text description provided by the architects.
In this project, the almost exclusive use of wood as a raw material for construction is the most important design choice from a quantitative (5,000 cubic meters), environmental, qualitative and communicative point of view (as it also makes explicit the production activity externally. - wooden packaging - which the company carries out).
The desire to minimize soil consumption, prefabrication, sustainability, energy saving and the use of natural materials from renewable sources such as wood and cellulose are primary elements of the project. The Novello srl industrial warehouse, designed by third parties, represents the first intervention of this type in Italy and one of the few of this size on a European scale.
The LCA studio was commissioned by the Novello srl company to create the south and west fronts. The primary objective was to enhance the high sustainability value that the building expresses; this goal was achieved by communicating the concept architecturally through the design of the main elevations (west and south). These wings overlook high traffic routes: to the west the A8 motorway of the lakes, to the south the provincial road number 20. The prospect (west) overlooking the highway aims to communicate to the outside the activity that the Novello company carries out: logistics and the production of wooden packaging.
From this assumption, the architectural idea was born of multiplying the idea of a “box” on the front of the A8, deforming without denying the typical saw shape of the sheds but making it more contemporary and modern through the plastic rendering of its walls. Seven large boxes follow one another with great elegance, giving rise to a rhythmic architecture, which in contrast seems to levitate above the large shadow of the 4-meter projecting underlying canopy. The southern façade is instead linear and completely covered with larch wood slats.
The project, as a whole, is in terms of size one of the greatest examples present on our territory of a prefabricated
