Wrapped Around Pavilion








Renderings: Valerio Croci



Wrapped Around Pavilion
Morbegno, Italia
2021

Progetto: Carlo Ezechieli


Assistants: Andrei Vassallo
 Renderings: Valerio Croci


This project doesn’t want to solve the problem of global warming, nor to declare itself "sustainable", nor to save the planet. The goal is simply to celebrate the joy of children, making them feel an integral part of the environment around them.
While a pavilion is usually identified as a space with trees around it, in this case are trees with a pavilion around them. In the shape of this small space, where the design of the greenery and that of the pavilion are one, concavity prevails over convexity, literally enveloping those who frequent it.
Entering through narrow corridors, instead of a flat floor, you find yourself immersed in a topography that allows children to play and use the space freely according to their desires.
The pavilion is high enough to be hidden in the vegetation. Only the roof is slightly visible, creating an environment inside that appears like an enchanted world.



Renderings: Valerio Croci



Renderings: Valerio Croci

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TRIMBLE INNOVATION CENTER






TRIMBLE iNNOVATION CENTER

Monza-Brianza, Italy

2020

Architectural design: Carlo Ezechieli

Mechanical Systems Design: Antonio Somaini
Electrical Systems Design: Daniele Fornè (ForgadSrl)

Photos: © Marcello Mariana
Since decades, Trimble has been a leader in geospatial technologies applied to the construction industry. After the acquisition from Google of the popular 3D Sketchup software, and from Frank Gehry Partners of the renowned software and hardware development company Gehry Technologies, Trimble has recently become a reference also in the field of architecture. The idea of an Innovation Center - and the Italian one is the first created by Trimble worldwide - stems from the need for a versatile space capable of effectively showcasing the operation of increasingly advanced and complex systems that feature a remarkable software content. Starting from these assumptions, the project aims to express both the corporate culture as well as the main features of a contemporary environment, where high technology, flexibility and rapid alternation of use - to which IT systems and platforms contribute in a decisive way - lead to the concept of a spatially fluid, functionally hybrid and typologically neutral architectural environment. The inspiration came from the same point cloud technologies developed by the company: a set of millions of digitally captured points, which allow to build interactive 3D models of objects or places. The result is a space that tends to the same immateriality and adaptability of a point cloud, with an architecture made of few elements and suitable for an array of different uses and contents. The space is a large workshop, a meeting room, a reception room, but also a warehouse and test center for systems and instruments, according to an intrinsic and wide functional variety expressed and condensed in the large central room: open to the landscape through its large windows, and to the world through its large video screen. Instead of fragmenting the interior space continuity introducing vertical partitions, which are reduced to a minimum, internal compartments are obtained horizontally, through the large wooden surfaces, the same flooring material. These latter, in addition to defining a principle of visual and spatial continuity both inside and with the surrounding landscape, conceal the necessary storage spaces. The project is an introverted topography and a space whose character is based on light, on the quality of its materials and on the virtual absence of boundaries with the outside.



















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