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Salewa Headquarters

This is a project by Cino Zucchi Architetti + Park Associati and it is located at Bolzano, Italy. It was submitted to Architecture News Plus (ANP) by Park Associati. Project's program: Office building. There are twenty nine images for Salewa Headquarters.

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Project details

Project name: Salewa Headquarters
Location: Bolzano, Italy
Program: Office building
Area: Site Area: 30,595 m2
Year: Design: April 2007 to October 2008 • Construction: July 2009 to October 2011
More details: Volume: 146,248 m3 • Cost: 40 Million Euros
Client: Salewa
Project by: Cino Zucchi Architetti + Park Associati
Team: Design Team: Cino Zucchi, Filippo Pagliani, Michele Rossi with Elisa Taddei (project architect), Alice Cuteri, Lorenzo Merloni, Marco Panzeri, Davide Pojaga, Alessandro Rossi, Giada Torchiana, Fabio Calciati (rendering)
Others: Structural Engineering: Kauer & Kauer Ingenieure (Georg Kauer, Ulrich Kauer) • Electrical Engineering: Energytech Ingegneri (Gabriele Frasnelli) • Mechanical Engineering: Energytech Ingegneri (Georg Felderer) • Site Supervision: Plan Team (Johann Röck, Rupert Cristofoletti) • Climbing Wall Consultant: Ralf Preindl • Artistic Intervention: Margit Klammer

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Designer's statement

The new Salewa Headquarters, one of the most prominent manufacturers in Bolzano, is situated in an exceptional location adjacent to the Bolzano highway suggesting a “landscape” building, in formal dialog with the surrounding steep cliffs.

Apart from housing new work spaces and an indoor climbing gym, the building aims to provide a space for interaction and communication between the company and its network of suppliers, partners and clients.

The new headquarters represents a point of convergence between different elements of everyday life: from physical, social and communicative dimensions to work styles and leisure.

The Salewa headquarter is formed by a series of multifaceted slabs and towers, including a 50 metre-high structure which when built will be the tallest building in the city.

The project combines an electro-coloured micro-perforated aluminium skin which protects the most exposed parts of the building with a large vertical glass covering. The resulting visual effect is that of a rock crystal. The interplay between the thin sheet metal-like pillars and the delicate protective layers frame the façades and underline the contrast between the visible and invisible areas.

Situated in a particular geographic location, this complex represents a place of information exchange between the dense web of material and immaterial relations that constitute the life of a modern company.