EUR NEW CONGRESS CENTRE AND HOTEL in Rome, Italy by STUDIO FUKSAS

Article source: STUDIO FUKSAS

The structure will be built in a strategic area of ​​the historic quarter EUR on a 55,000-square-meter  built surface.

The design concept is briefly explained by three images: the “Theca”, the “Cloud” and the “blade” of the Hotel.

The “Theca”, longitudinally oriented, is the container, with steel structure and glass double-façade, that encloses the Cloud.

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• Architects: STUDIO FUKSAS – Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas
• Project: EUR NEW CONGRESS CENTRE AND HOTEL
• Location: Rome, Italy
• Photography: Colarossi, Paolo Ridolfi, Archivio Fuksas, MorenoMaggi, Giacomo Famà, Fabio Lovino
• Client: Eur Spa
• Interior Design: Fuksas Design
• Theca:
  • Dimensions:
    • Height 39 M ( From The Underground Level 48 Mt)
    • Width 70 M
    • Lenght 175 M
    • Outer And Transversal Façades: Stratified Extra-Bright Glass And Stratified Lamellar Extra-Bright Glass
    • Inner Façades: Double Gazing With Solar Factor Cellular System And Double Gazing With Solar Factor Rei Cellular System
    • Outer Façades: 16,075 Sq.M.
    • Outer Longitudinal Façades: 13,880 Sq.M. (6,9420×2)
    • Outer Transversal Façades: 2,195 Sq.M. (1,301 Via Colombo And 894 Viale Shakespeare)
    • Roof (11,000 Sq.M.): Glass With Solar Factor And 3,000 Sq.M. Panels With Mono crystalline photo voltaics
    • Inner Flooring: Travertine
    • Forum: 7,500 Sq.M. (Public Square)
• Cloud
  • Structure: Metallic
  • Coating: Microperforatedatex® 2000 Trl Sheet
  •  Flooring: Industrial Parquet
  • Auditorium: 1,850 Seats
  • Bar And Foyer: 450 Sq.M.

Image Courtesy © Paolo Ridolfi

•  Hotel:
  • 439 Rooms, Included 7 Suites, 1 Wellness Centre
  • 16 Above-Ground Floors
  • Height: 55 Mt
  • Structure: Metallic And Reinforced Concrete
  • Façades: Black Double Glazing (Grey + Energy N) With Solar Factor, High Energetical Performance
  • Hotel –Hall – Restaurant 2,600 Sq.M.
  • Hotel: 18,000 Sq.M.
• Underground Level:
  • Congress Space: 7,800 Sq.M. (7,000 Seats)
  • Meeting Rooms: 600 Sq.M. (4 Meeting Rooms, 100 Seats Each)
  • Offices: 1,100 sq.m.
  • Storage rooms: 3,470 sq.m.
  • Concourse 4.200 sq.m.
  • Parking: 20,100 sq.m. (615 places)
  • Congress Centre Restaurant: 700 Sq.M.
  • Main Access Square: 1,600 Sq.M.
• Built Surface: 55,000 Sq. M.
• Period: 1998-Ongoing

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The “Cloud” is the heart of the project. Its constriction into the “box” of the Theca underlines the comparison between a free spatial articulation, without rules, and a geometrically defined shape.

Inside the Cloud there are: an auditorium for 1850 people, snack points and support services to the auditorium. The Cloud is, without any doubt, the distinctive architectural element of the project: the structure in steel ribs, with its extraordinary visual effect, will be covered by a 15,000-square-meter transparent curtain.

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The 439-room hotel, the “blade”, is thought as an independent and autonomous structure.

At the underground level of the complex it’s planned a 600-place parking.

The New Congress Centre will be a work of extraordinary artistic value, characterized by innovative logistical solutions and by the choice of technologically advanced materials.

The complex will be highly flexible, able to host congresses, exhibition events, with a capacity that will reach a total of nearly 9,000 seats, divided between the auditorium inside the Cloud, that could accommodate 1,850 people, and large conference rooms totalling 6,500 seats.

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The design of the New Congress Centre is distinguished by its eco-friendly approach, that is a group of choices to reduce energy consumption.

There will be a climate control system with variable flow air conditioning, that will allow an optimal use of energy, with respect to the effective crowding of the rooms; on the cover of the Theca there will be photovoltaic elements that will allow a natural production of electricity and the protection of the building from the overheating, through the mitigation of the solar radiation, as well as allowing a significant energetic saving compared to those required to obtain the air-conditioning of the whole volume with traditional systems.

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Biographical

Studio Fuksas, led by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, is one of the most outstanding international architectural firm in the world.

Over the past 40 years the company has developed an innovative approach through a strikingly wide variety of projects, ranging from urban interventions to airports, from museums to cultural centers and spaces for music, from convention centers to offices, from interiors to design collections.

Image Courtesy © Fabio Lovino

With headquarters in Rome, Paris and Shenzhen, and a staff of 170 professionals, the practice has completed more than 600 projects and has worked in Europe, Africa, America, Asia and Australia, receiving numerous international awards.

Massimiliano Fuksas of Lithuanian descent, was born in Rome in 1944. He graduated in Architecture from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1969. Since the Eighties he has been one of the main protagonists of the contemporary architectural scene.

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