{"id":36906,"date":"2017-01-24T13:39:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T12:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/en\/recupero-dellex-magazzino-vini-a-trieste\/"},"modified":"2017-01-24T13:51:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T12:51:28","slug":"recupero-dellex-magazzino-vini-a-trieste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/en\/recupero-dellex-magazzino-vini-a-trieste\/","title":{"rendered":"Recupero dell’ex Magazzino Vini a Trieste"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florence-based ARCHEA ASSOCIATI<\/a> has designed a major new restoration project, turning a former wine warehouse in Trieste into a new Eataly store, which was officially opened to the public today, Tuesday, January 17.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cEvery architect\u2019s dream is to defy the impossible. One such dream is to build a \u201chole in the water,\u201d something that is, of course, utterly un-doable. In a way, we have done just that in Trieste because we are practically in the sea. In taking on the former wine warehouse, we had to deal with a building of no particular architectural merit, but a great deal of historical value. We built another glass building inside of it, which was easy in terms of imagining the composition, but highly complex in its architecture and construction. A great area was carved out of the sea to gain a new space, taken from the sea itself. The outside image is that of the 19th-century wine warehouse; one of history and tradition. At its edges, you can glimpse the glass cube inside, which faces the sea and lets you see that there is a new life within.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>Marco Casamonti<\/p>\n

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photo by Pietro Savorelli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Archea\u2019s architects welcomed the challenge of creating a contemporary project on a historical heritage building. Their redevelopment and conversion plan protects the existing building while maintaining absolute respect for its city setting. The plan leaves the original volume unchanged, placing within it a new, all glass architectural structure connected to the existing perimeter by walkways suspended over the water.
\nThe new structure is completely independent; translucent and ethereal, its proportions follow the rhythm of the wall section as determined by the original facade.<\/p>\n

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photo by Pietro Savorelli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The physical separation between the new \u201cbuilding\u201d and the historical face creates a powerfully evocative space between inside and outside where water flows in large pools. The edges of the warehouse walls and its windows and doors are reflected in the glass enclosing the space, letting us see what is going on inside. The new structure spreads over four floors, like a theater set for food. A completely underground floor is for parking. Natural light reaches the next floor up, lower than street level, through a gap between original building envelope and the new one. This floor and the ones above it are for Eataly\u2019s retail business. The ground floor, 80 cm above street level, maintains the historical safety margin that keeps it above high tide. The new mezzanine, though at a higher point than the perimeter walls, reaches the top level of the original pitched roof, which was destroyed. A large window facing the sea affords a remarkable view of the port of Trieste.<\/p>\n

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photo by Pietro Savorelli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Featuring a majestic double staircase of COR-TEN steel, the building\u2019s atrium is like a theater foyer. The staircase, which connects the three retail floors, has two spectacular pools of water at its base. The atrium also has a large wall clad in back-lit glass bricks whose form and material suggest the interior coverings of the historical tanks where wine was once stored.<\/p>\n