De Longhi Group Headquarters
The new De Longhi Group Headquarters was built in the same area where there was a devastating fire that destroyed the De'Longhi production site in Treviso in 2007.
In 2015, De longhi Group decides to use the area for the new headquarters and entrusts the assignment to Signorotto + Partners.
In addition to the office areas, the new extension includes relaxation areas, an auditorium, foyer, equipped terraces, new CDA rooms and executive offices, the company restaurant, and bar.
The architecture takes into account the pre-existence and its architectural stylistic features, renovating them and inserting elements of architectural break between the old and the new, both from the chromatic point of view and from the geometric formal point of view.
The new extension closes the pre-existing building thus forming an internal courtyard for garden use, with organic-shaped paths, harmoniously blending an industrial architecture, mainly dedicated to work environments, more geometrically rigid and natural spaces, dictated by free forms and small green dunes that frame the building and its internal courtyard.
The study of these outdoor spaces was the result of careful planning to rethink the quality of the work space, where people can find a contact with the outside and have dedicated natural spaces inside the Headquarters.
The architectural breakdown elements are characterized by the use of glass and metal frames with white material paint that frame the essential points of the architectural complex.
The building foresees the construction of 2 particular architectural elements, the entrance hall together with the overlying foyer / auditorium and the stairwell tower to the north, made with tense-facades with point-fixed glass and characterized by maximum lightness of the system of suspension of the glasses.
The hall of the building is characterized by both facades in glass tensile structure, mirroring each other and each is inserted in a perimeter bearing frame in reinforced concrete covered with white tapered metal cladding. This allows visibility between inside and outside, making the internal courtyard permeable to view.
The crossing of the hall is given by suspended walkways in reinforced concrete covered with wooden slats and anthracite aluminum that connect the different floors of the headquarters.
The latter are a strongly characterizing element of the hall environment and design, together with the wall in fiber cement panels and the wooden slatted ceiling, the architectural space.
The tower of the north staircase has the same characteristics as the facade of the entrance hall, but inside it takes shape a suspended staircase with a glass parapet that connects all the floors for office use and the terrace equipped for the use of the foyer and the rooftop auditorium.
