FONDAZIONE SANDRETTO RE REBAUDENGO

TORINO

Size
2000 mq

Location
Torino, Italy

Year
2022

Client
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo 

About

The Centre for Contemporary Art in Turin has been the Foundation’s main exhibition venue since its inauguration in September 2002. The Centre is located in the San Paolo district and was built on the Ex Fergat area, previously occupied by disused industrial plants. The Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation has acquired the right to build for 99 years.

The building is characterised by the essentiality of its spaces, specifically designed to contain and exhibit today’s art, built according to the principle of versatility and practicality of management. The horizontality of the building allows for efficient management of the operations and daily life of an exhibition centre: from the transport and installation of the works to the ease of movement for the public.

The idea behind the creation of the Center is to offer the city of Turin a space for contemporary art of international standing, which can play a role similar to that played in Germany by the Kunsthallen, or in France by the Centres d’Art Contemporain, acting as a meeting and discussion place between the public and the new generations of artists, critics, curators.

The intervention made on the existing structure with the Giano light system made it possible to renovate the facade while maintaining the same values ​​​​of the 2002 project.

Giano light is the cladding panel that allows you to combine lightness
and large format with surfaces of strong aesthetic and emotional impact. The finish of the stoneware composed of natural earths, chosen in the same shades as the original project, combined with a stable and robust reinforcement panel that makes the facade thermo-ventilated.
Giano light, thanks to its lightness, is easy to handle and simple to install; It allows you to dress exterior and interior architectures while remaining unalterable over time even when subjected to strong stresses, impacts, wear and tear and bad weather.

It proves to be the best in this type of use.

Let’s get into the project

Gold Medal for Italian Architecture at the Milan Triennale.

Details

This building does not follow the contemporary trend for assertive and sensationalist architecture; instead it manifests itself in linear form.

Significant to the project is a volumetric configuration similar to that of a typical factory or workshop in northern Italy: a long shed, 9 m high, extending horizontally on one level for 130 m.

Thin glass slits, cut at regular intervals in the long south façade, break up the monotony of the roof beam.

The total exhibition space of 1100 m²; Other spaces: a 150-seat conference room, a bookshop, a classroom, restaurant, internet room, bar/cafeteria.

2003 Gold Medal for Italian Architecture at the Milan Triennale.

01. North wall light cuts

02. Sign applied to the Giano light panel

​03. Glass slit
45° connections with a single panel

04. Wall cut
45° connections with a single panel

05. Coordinated finishes on the entire facade
Possibility to create elements coordinated with the facade

06. Continuous window cuts with the facade
45° connections with a single panel

07. 08. Glass cuts on the facade
45° connections with a single panel

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North wall light cuts
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Coordinated finishes across the entire facade Possibility to create elements coordinated with the facade
Sign applied to the Giano light panel
11angolo-preciso
Continuous window cuts with the facade 45° connections with a single panel
Glass slit ​45° connections with a single panel
9-muro-nord-finestrelle
Glass cuts on the facade 45° connections with a single panel
Wall cutting 45° connections with a single panel
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Glass cuts on the facade 45° connections with a single panel

Design

Una struttura dotata di una propria connotazione artistica.