architect: LDA iMdA

location: Montelupo Fiorentino

year: 2018

After years of research and education by the University of Study of Florence, LDA_iMdA, founded in 1999 by Gianni Bellucci and Paolo Posarelli, establishes itself as a winning architectural practice, having been invited to exhibit their work in various universities and been published in national and international magazines or books among which there is Area.
The VoipVoice project, born in the Empoli manufacturing region of the Florentine countryside, is part of a research program which aims to reactivate industrial areas that saw in 2008 an hole in the construction process due to the building industry crisis.

photo by MEDULLA studio

The VoipVoice project introduces a significative element, innovative and compatible with the state of the places where the new activity is inserted.

photo by MEDULLA studio

The main goals of the project are to break the boundary between private and public space by opening the front area of the building to create a new connection with the "city", together with the use of an expanded metal on the facade, filtering without hiding the marketing and research work of the company.

photo by MEDULLA studio

To recall metaphorically the digital network, on which VoipVoice's business is focused, the architects chose to use the same material on the facade.

photo by MEDULLA studio

Moreover, the exterior has been organized in a way to create views over the surrounding hills and landscape, instead of the industrial factories around the building.
Aim of the architectural solution is also to generate a perfect link between light, materials and shadows, so that it can produce above all, in the people who use the workspace, positive feelings, wonder and amazement.

photo by MEDULLA studio

title VoipVoice headquarter
architects LDA.iMA architetti associati
year 2018
location via del Lavoro 8, Montelupo Fiorentino, Italy
photographs MEDULLA studio
client VoipVoice srl
metal and glass facade Pagano Carmine srl - Saverio srl