PIANELLI & TRAVERSA DIRECTIONAL CENTER – RIVOLI (TO)

Year of construction: 1979

Customer: Pianelli & Traversa S.p.A.

Executive Offices of the Pianelli & Traversa Group

Structures Design and Construction Supervision

Arch. Carlo Alberto Bordogna has created a crystal cube with a side equal to 24 meters that is detached from the base, where the entrances, the auditorium, the exhibition space of the products and companies of the group are positioned, hovering in the surrounding landscape in the image of the group .

The steel structure is supported on a mesh of pillars arranged on axes inside the glass perimeter in order to leave the glass facade free, in particular on the four corners.

For its very bold characteristics and in harmony with the architecture, it received the ACAI award and, in 1980, the European CECM award.