The Brenta Tecnologie & Ricerca (BT&R) testing and certification laboratory and center of higher education, it was predicted over an area of about 3000 meters square placed in the industrial expansion area in the south-east of the town of Pove del Grappa. The insertion of a new business services structure is motivated by socio-economic aspects of the local venetian context, characterized by the presence of small and medium industries and the need to provide opportunities in terms of education, research and knowledge. The design premise on which is based the structural and technological organization of the building concerns the possibility that the architecture itself could participate in the research and innovation promoted through an organizational versatility of space, freedom of distribution and utilization and a chance to change and rearrangement of the facades with the passing of time. This possibility arises from the integration of technological components for energy saving, the use of energy from renewable sources, for the study of innovative and monitored types of facade. Attention is paid to the criteria of environmental sustainability both in the use of appropriate materials that choices of components designed to control consumption. In this way the concept of testing laboratory and technologies of new materials will be incorporated into the building itself, which is proposed as a simulator that can be investigated and monitored over time. The project is the first of two other buildings which should compose in time the overall building structure. The overall shape of the building wants to transfer to the observer the idea of flexibility: the relationship of the rigid volumes which are interwoven with the sinusoidal wall of the north facade is one possible hypothesis for the organization of the wall, imagined as a container building of components replaceable . The south and west facades are available to subsequent changes, filtered only by a texture of solar protection. The elements that protrude from cover highlight the possibility of future developments, linked to a use as outdoor field tests and installation of power generation in accordance with the use of renewable energy sources. In order to ensure continuity in time of the project idea in terms of enforceability it has been simulated a dimensional development of the whole building in a form of constructive distribution of structures and of placement of workspaces and service units. The structure includes the basement for technological research activities and materials, certification and testing of industrial products and ample space for local technology in anticipation of future developments in plant engineering and storage spaces and service. The ground floor is arranged for the reception of the people, for the activities of higher education and service spaces and informational support to businesses. On the first floor are placing a meeting room and space for collateral management and administrative activities related to the production of documents, conferences, courses and for the functions of the ordinary and everyday work activities. For the physical demarcation of space is provided for the use of wall systems, movable walls. The building from a structural point of view has a modular frame and repeatable conformation, in which south and west facades have punctual elements, while the north façade has a greater compactness and the east facade is read in reference to a possible extension. The building lends itself to adaptations and modifications on the layout, type and size of the plants. Both pipes and conduits are inserted into the technological and inspectionable cavedio, both in their horizontal and vertical distribution.
The Brenta Tecnologie & Ricerca (BT&R) testing and certification laboratory and center of higher education, it was predicted over an area of about 3000 meters square placed in the industrial expansion area in the south-east of the town of Pove del Grappa. The insertion of a new business services structure is motivated by socio-economic aspects of the local venetian context, characterized by the presence of small and medium industries and the need to provide opportunities in terms of education, research and knowledge. The design premise on which is based the structural and technological organization of the building concerns the possibility that the architecture itself could participate in the research and innovation promoted through an organizational versatility of space, freedom of distribution and utilization and a chance to change and rearrangement of the facades with the passing of time. This possibility arises from the integration of technological components for energy saving, the use of energy from renewable sources, for the study of innovative and monitored types of facade. Attention is paid to the criteria of environmental sustainability both in the use of appropriate materials that choices of components designed to control consumption. In this way the concept of testing laboratory and technologies of new materials will be incorporated into the building itself, which is proposed as a simulator that can be investigated and monitored over time. The project is the first of two other buildings which should compose in time the overall building structure. The overall shape of the building wants to transfer to the observer the idea of flexibility: the relationship of the rigid volumes which are interwoven with the sinusoidal wall of the north facade is one possible hypothesis for the organization of the wall, imagined as a container building of components replaceable . The south and west facades are available to subsequent changes, filtered only by a texture of solar protection. The elements that protrude from cover highlight the possibility of future developments, linked to a use as outdoor field tests and installation of power generation in accordance with the use of renewable energy sources. In order to ensure continuity in time of the project idea in terms of enforceability it has been simulated a dimensional development of the whole building in a form of constructive distribution of structures and of placement of workspaces and service units. The structure includes the basement for technological research activities and materials, certification and testing of industrial products and ample space for local technology in anticipation of future developments in plant engineering and storage spaces and service. The ground floor is arranged for the reception of the people, for the activities of higher education and service spaces and informational support to businesses. On the first floor are placing a meeting room and space for collateral management and administrative activities related to the production of documents, conferences, courses and for the functions of the ordinary and everyday work activities. For the physical demarcation of space is provided for the use of wall systems, movable walls. The building from a structural point of view has a modular frame and repeatable conformation, in which south and west facades have punctual elements, while the north façade has a greater compactness and the east facade is read in reference to a possible extension. The building lends itself to adaptations and modifications on the layout, type and size of the plants. Both pipes and conduits are inserted into the technological and inspectionable cavedio, both in their horizontal and vertical distribution.