A raised garden conceived to mend a long-standing rift in the terrain and recreate the hillside of the site in which it is located.
This is what the new Fendi Factory in Bagno a Ripoli (Florence) looks like.
A complex of about 14,000 sqm rising in the Tuscan countryside, conceived around a high standard of landscaping and advanced energy efficiency.
Starting from an innovative approach, the fi rm designed a building that stretches horizontally over a single level to create a free form driven by the needs of the production process.
The complex houses management and administrative offices, a restaurant, a production warehouse, workshops and a school for haute leather goods.
The project concept aims to defi ne the conditions for a renewed visual collaboration between architecture and environment: the building, apparently underground owing to the choice of creating a continuous and extensive green roof, becomes an integrated ecological system that recreates the shape of the original hillside.
CREDITS
PROJECT: Fendi Factory
STUDIO: Piuarch
AREA: 14,000 m2
LOCATION: Bagno a Ripoli (FI), Italy
YEAR: 2022
LEAD DESIGNERS: Francesco Fresa, Germán Fuenmayor, Gino Garbellini, Monica Tricario
PHOTOGRAPHS: Andrea Ferrari
