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The project emerged from the client's need to expand technical spaces to integrate new technology for efficient heat recovery, enhancing the plant's energy efficiency. The core idea was to minimize the new building’s impact on the landscape, ensuring seamless integration while focusing on space functionality. Inspired by the natural elevation difference between the environment and the plant, a sequence of buildings was designed. Their roofs form a green "hill," concealing technical parts and harmonizing with the northern landscape. Towards the plant, the volumes reveal their architecture, addressing functional requirements and creating a strong nature/artificial dualism.
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The relationship with the context and the surrounding landscape is essentially one of mimicry. By leveraging the terrain's topography, the new buildings are completely embedded within the environment, and their volumes do not protrude outward. The green treatment of the roof, the fourth facade visible mainly from the adjacent road infrastructure, completes this mimicry, making the building fully integrated into the surrounding topography.
The project aims to enhance energy production efficiency and sustainability through a green roof, addressing environmental goals such as reducing the urban heat island effect, managing rainwater, and mitigating visual impact. The landscaping focuses on native species and biodiversity protection, featuring a flowering meadow with nectar-producing plants and a poplar grove. It emphasizes water resource management with systems for natural water infiltration (dispersal wells), evapotranspiration (vegetated retention basin), and water reuse for non-potable purposes to reduce consumption. The unoccupied spaces are designed with high energy efficiency principles.
The expansion project of the Brescia Waste-to-Energy Plant is part of an ambitious plan to enhance the efficiency of the energy production system and recover heat from waste combustion processes. This project involves constructing new facilities for purification systems, heat pumps, electrical systems, and warehouses over a total area of approximately 7,000 square meters. The design concept focuses on compact and uniform buildings, utilizing the existing topography and integrating them with the nearby hill facing the A4 motorway (Turin-Venice).
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On one side, facing the city and the road infrastructure (A4 highway and South Ring Road), a unified front with a natural configuration: the green hill completely masks the new buildings from the city's view. On the other side, facing the operational areas, the volumes manifest in a varied layout that responds to the functionality of the industrial plant's flows.
CREW, founded in 1987 by Lamberto Cremonesi, is a leading Italian multidisciplinary design studio of the Urban Hub FS Group. CREW provides integrated and full range services: urban architecture and building, architecture for mobility, civil structures and MEP, with an empowerment digital and sustainable approach. Our work extends from metro stations to energy plant, form large commercial structures to motorway and roads. We work across all sectors, enabling technologically-advanced design that is appropriate, economic and sensitive to environmental and human needs. We consider innovation, creativity, and design excellence as principle aspirations. We believe that the best solutions result from a close collaboration with our clients and our multi-disciplinary approach to design. Guided by the vision of creating a quality experience for people in the projects we conceive, we improve the future, day by day, project by project, with the belief that every contribution can make a difference.
