engineering consultants
Ai Engineering, Torino, Studio Majowiecki, Studio Sarti
safety
Studio Sarti
acoustics
XU – Acoustique, Parigi, Ai Engineering, Turin
lighting design
Speirs & Major Associates, Edimburgo, London
dimensional data
55,000.00 m2
cost of the works
240.000.000,00 eur
Located in the EUR (district of Rome's Universal Exposition and now home to important public bodies, ministries and businesses) the new congress center follows the simple and orthogonal lines of the rationalist architecture that surrounds it.
The renowned architect has worked on three architectural concepts the Teca (Theca), the Nuvola (Cloud) and the Lama (Blade), and he has used 3 main materials such as glass, metal and fiberglass.
The Teca, oriented longitudinally, is the container with steel structure and double glass facade that encloses the Nuvola.
The Nuvola is the centerpiece of the project. Its constriction inside the “box” space of the Teca highlights the comparison between the free unregulated spatial articulation and a geometrically defined form. Inside the Nuvola are: an auditorium with 1760 seats, dining facilities and the auditorium support services. The Nuvola is undoubtedly the core element of the architectural project: the structure in steel ribs, with an extraordinary visual effect, is covered by a transparent sheet of 15,000 square meters.
The hotel, also called “the Blade”, offers 441 rooms and it has been thought as an independent and autonomous structure.
On the basement level of the complex there is a parking lot for 600 cars.
The complex is a highly flexible building, capable of hosting conferences and exhibitions, with a capacity that reaches a total of nearly 9,000 seats, divided between the auditorium inside the Nuvola, which can accommodate 1,760 people, and the large convention rooms for a total of 6,500 seats.
The design of the new Congress Centre is characterized by an eco-friendly approach, namely a set of choices to reduce energy consumption.
An air variable displacement of the air conditioning system has been adopted. It provides optimal power consumption based on the actual overcrowding of the premises; the Theca cover provides, instead, the photovoltaic elements that allow a natural production of electricity and the protection of the building from overheating by mitigation of the solar radiation, as well as allowing a significant saving in energy consumption as compared to those required to obtain the conditioning of the whole volume with traditional systems.
The Faraone company is satisfied with the inclusion of its product in a project of international importance, such as the Fuksas’ Cloud. The Ninfa balustrade has a resistance to the thrust of 300 kg/m, and bears an impact of 600 Joules. For this project, laboratory tests and on-site tests on the system with aluminium base and tempered laminated safety glass 12+12 +1.52 PVB have been carried out, as usual.
In close contact with the Fuksas Studio, all the design problems have been solved, and a maximum architectural integration has been achieved.
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