On the plain between a local stream, the Baganza, and the Carrega Woods, south-east of the town of Collecchio (Italy), Iotti + Pavarani Architetti has designed A DUE Headquarters, a new complex conceived to be more spacious and efficient but also to promote the company’s values and the spirit of solidarity within the work-force (about 80 staff members, including both technicians and production staff).
The aim of the design is to redefine a workplace landscape which includes significant visual motifs connecting it with the surrounding countryside combined with vibrant internal relations while still based on the maximum clarity and fluidity of the physical connections and visual perspectives.
In addition, the new A DUE headquarters has been designed to establish a clear and abstract border with the local area and the construction thus translates into a landscape of its own which does not hide its industrial character but is nonetheless able to achieve a more refined and evocative image of a “technical building”.
In these elements of harmony between its different parts, the building seeks to resonate with the natural elegance of the machines and devices produced by A DUE, projecting them to the external world, the whole construction acting as an interface, a line of communication between the business and the locality.
