location: Florence, Italy
client: Università degli Studi di Firenze
gross floor area: 6693,84 m2
cost: 15.726.220,21 euro
The project envisages a rigorous volume that breaks into motion spaces and gain life and light from its interior spaces. A place where the shadow is broken and creates rhythm is conceived. A place as the expression of the comparison between the researcher analythical approach and the irreducible uniqueness of the organic material of study: natural forms, cells, nucleus. So different kind of signs and forms are compared and overlapped: the orthogonal and Cartesian scheme of the construction reasons fix the edges of the intervention, but this squared and rational mass receives light from an aggregation of voids and courts dug in the volume inspired by uncertain and ambiguous shapes. The building consists of three floors, a technical plan in coverage and a basement dedicated to parking and technical and auxiliary rooms.