County incinerator central system

2005-2010
Giubiasco, TI

Since the project proposes to become part of the environment as a reference and order mark, the building must go beyond its simple function. Its architecture must be the excellent answer to landscape and city planning needs.
It will be the county biggest industrial complex, any traveller coming from North or South will see it. A cultural emblem, a serious responsibility that we assume.
Our project is like a modern and compact machine. A metallic sponge which converts, incinerates, removes, breaths and brightens.
Its scale aims to the surrounding area, not to man.
Grazingly illuminated, the interior walls rise to 40 metres. Like an abstract and uninhabited object, the outside walls expose themselves to the changeable day- and night light.
The complex shape is compact and squared, the matrix is cubic. A metallic elements’ assembly make up the “skin”. Each panel measures 4×4 metres and has 2 metres depth. These elements are closed or opened on one side: light and air filter through the openings without compromising quality and uniformity.
Project: 2002-2003

The skin is made by a particularly shaped ashlar work; the extreme flexibility of each ashlar prefabricated element allows the insertion of admission doors, windows, ventilation openings or any other element.
The consignment large square is in the middle of the complex: all area which need a 24 hours loading and unloading converge there.
In order to reduce and control bad smells emission and to conceal an “unpleasant” section of the complex, the openings and the areas which are aesthetically hard to manage are placed inside a covered square.
The machine leans against a base socle (created by raising a part of the ground to avoid technical and natural problems).
The traffic and the access for unloading and loading
Text by Livio Vacchini, june 2004