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The project idea was born from the desire to integrate the building into its context. The relationship with the existing rural house and the surrounding landscape guided the first design choices. We had in mind an innovative and sustainable building that was welcoming and accessible for people. One of the most important architectural elements is the main façade which is completely glazed. An unusual choice for a commercial building of this type that allows to always maintain visual contact from inside to outside. Thanks to the transparent facade is always possibile to see the plants and external vegetation from the inside, making the customer experience harmonious and special.
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The building is located in the southern area of the city of Reggio Emilia, in an undeveloped area on the edge of the urban fabric. The project integrates an existing farmhouse into the new commercial spaces. The contact between the existing house and the new volume takes place through large and glazed facades. The glass takes on the function of delicately uniting the two buildings, making them a unique architecture in balance between history and innovation. The roof of the building is a landscape element, composed of a sequence of inclined pitches with an external vegetal layer. This choice visually unites the building with the first Emilian hills, visible in the background towards the south. The green roof reaches down to the ground, with a long sloping pitch that connects the external lawn with the building.
The green roof has other functions in addition to integrating the building into its naturalistic context. The vegetative layer of the roof helps mitigate the "heat island" phenomenon, filters air pollutants, regulates rainwater flows and finally increases the insulating capacity and thermal inertia of the building.
On the roof, alternating with the vegetation, photovoltaic panels are installed which power the supermarket machines. Furthermore, the entire building envelope is highly performing. Both the glass facades and the walls are built with innovative, high-efficiency technologies that reduce energy waste and heat loss.
The project allows the large commercial building to be optimally inserted into the surrounding context. The architecture is in connection with the natural landscape and with the existing farmhouse. The shape of the building was created to respond to environmental input. The result is an architecture characterized by a green roof and a glass façade.
The roof is composed of a sequence of low-sloping pitches, which start from the ground and continue defining the space below.
The turf on the roof improves the performance of the building.
The farmhouse has been entirely restored with techniques that have kept its distinctive features intact. A typical Emilian rural house is thus part of a modern and innovative project, without losing its ancient flavor. The balance between the two volumes is also given by the design of the external open spaces.
The project defines a space for relationships next to the farmhouse. It is a small square connecting with the urban and social fabric of the place, which links the intervention to the rest of the city.
In most people’s mind commercial buildings are always ugly and anonymous. They are often inhospitable and without any quality. Spaces designed only for sales and not for people who spend time there. Conad Superstore Le Colline can proove that even commercial buildings could be valuable architecture. A real piece of the city, capable of integrating with the surrounding environment. Interesting and functional architecture that can creates spaces in which is beautiful to stay and live.
Studio LSA is a studio of associated professionals that deals with architectural and engineering design. Studio LSA designs buildings in the field of residential, commercial, office and industrial civil construction.
For more than thirty years, the studio has been a place for meeting and exchanging different knowledge derived from training courses that run in parallel but which meet and cross-contaminate each other on a daily basis. It is precisely the marked multidisciplinarity that allows LSA to conceive and implement complex projects from the urban scale to that of architectural detail.
Studio LSA pays particular attention to respecting the context in which it operates as well as the environmental sustainability.
