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Agostini Shoes

Agostini Shoes
© Alessandra Bello

AGOSTINI SHOES

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ARCHITECTS
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AREA 
600 m²

YEAR 
2017

PHOTOGRAPHS
Alessandra Bello

MANUFACTURERS
Artemide, VitrA, FLOS

DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION PROCESS
Fabrizio Michielon, Sergio de Gioia

CATEGORY
Mixed Use Architecture, Industrial Architecture, Offices

LOCATION
Noventana, Italy

Agostini Shoes
© Alessandra Bello
Agostini Shoes
© Alessandra Bello

Text description provided by architect.

The intervention involves an existing productive building, located along a busy commercial route of Noventa Padovana, in the eastern rural area of Padua.

Agostini Shoes
© Alessandra Bello
Agostini Shoes
© Alessandra Bello

The late 900’s architectural body is composed of a compact large vaulted volume, in which a third is occupied by a two-storey directional block and two-thirds by a double high space hosting the workshop.

Although the project considered demolishing the existing partitions, the design intention was to retain the original internal configuration.

Agostini Shoes
© Alessandra Bello
Agostini Shoes
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Agostini Shoes
© Alessandra Bello
Agostini Shoes
© Alessandra Bello

The office and dressing rooms block is composed of a two-storey load-bearing steel framework, completed with perimetral plasterboard partitions and featured by large glazed openings that visually connect the directional upper level with the open space of the workshop.

The ground level hosts restrooms, dressing rooms, equipment rooms, as well as a reception area leading towards the upper floor offices and showroom.

Agostini Shoes
© Alessandra Bello
Agostini Shoes

The main front demanded a more detailed design study, as its immediate connection with the public spaces suggested that an iconic intervention could emphasise the productive and commercial role of the plant in the area.

The façade was therefore conceived as a carved metal skin, opaque during the day and semi-transparent in the night, recalling the manufacture’s shoe textures by the ‘light perforations’.


Agostini Shoes
© Alessandra Bello
Agostini Shoes
© Alessandra Bello
Agostini Shoes
© Alessandra Bello
Agostini Shoes
© Alessandra Bello
Agostini Shoes
© Alessandra Bello
Agostini Shoes
© Alessandra Bello
Agostini Shoes
© Alessandra Bello
Agostini Shoes
© Alessandra Bello


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Plan - Ground floor
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Plan - 1st floor
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Plans
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North elevation


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Facade detail
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Axonometric

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