San Pellegrino Flagship, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group (project stage)
BIG Bjarke Ingels Group Bjarke Ingels- Type Factory Industry
- Date 2016
- City San Pellegrino Terme
- Country Italy
In 2017, BIG won the competition to design the historical San Pellegrino premises in the Italian Alps. The operation includes the construction of a visitor center, production zones, offices, and a bridge over the Brembo. The complex is unified by emphatic repetition of slender concrete arches that go back to classical tradition and 20th-century Italian rationalism. These elements are positioned like ribs, in such a way that the gaps – sealed with transparent materials – frame views of the river valley and make the building’s users feel immersed in the natural landscape. The diameter of the galleries varies progressively, giving rise to a dynamic sequence of arcades in which the different parts of the program are distributed.
Besides giving new life to the company’s image, the project seeks to link the industrial facilities to the San Pellegrino Terme and make it an iconic gateway to the village. Hence, close to the deposits is an elevated piazza – the symbolic heart of the intervention – where a huge sculpture will be raised, formed by various layers of natural rock representing the stages of the journey that water travels from the mountain’s snowy summit to the spring at its foot.
Cliente Client
Sanpellegrino S.P.A.
Arquitectos Architects
BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group.
Socios responsables Partners in charge: Bjarke Ingels, Thomas Christoffersen
Jefe de proyecto Project leader: Jelena Vucic
Project manager: Vincenzo Polsinelli
Project architect: Giulio Rigoni
Equipo de proyecto Project team
Benson Chien, Ma Ning, Nicole Passarella , Kurt Nieminen, Lorenz Krisai, Hsiao Rou Huang, Santtu Hyvarinen, Stephanie Hui, Armen Menendian, Yang Yang Chen, Stephen Steckel, Derek Wong, Terrence Chew, Edda Steingrimsdottir, Fabian Lorenz, Wells Barber, Kevin Pham, Jan Leenknegt, Josiah Poland, Veronica Moretti, Julie Kaufman, Ava Nourbaran, Aslan Taheri, Gabriella Den Elzen, Benjamin Caldwell, Christopher Tron, Megan Van Artsdalen, Veronica Acosta, Lawrence Olivier Mahadoo, Melissa Jones, Maria Eugenia Dominguez, Tracy Sodder, Amro Abdelsalam, Tianqi Zhang, Jennifer Wood, Sharon Kwan, Kelly Neill, Adi Krainer, Ji-Young Yoon, Gaurav Janey, Francesca Portesine, Ethan Duffey, Deborah Campbell, Maki Matsubayashi, Denys Kozak, Megan Ng, Stephen Kwok, Margaret Tyrpa, Tore Banke, Yehezkiel Wiliardy, Kristoffer Negendahl
Colaboradores Collaborators
Atelier Verticale, West8, Schlaich Bergermann Partner, CREW, Front, Arup, GAD, MIC, Studio Piero Castiglioni, BIG IDEAS, Squint/Opera
