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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Luxottica Digital Factory in Milan, Italy by Park AssociatiJuly 13th, 2022 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Park Associati Milan is enhanced by a new intervention of industrial architectural restoration aimed at accommodating the Digital Factory of Luxottica, a world leader in the eyewear market. Thanks to Park Associati’s retrofitting intervention, in collaboration with storagemilano the complex becomes an open and flexible container where history, change and creativity find the ideal convergence ground. Paying the greatest attention to quality, using technologically innovative materials and seeking cutting-edge architectural solutions are the Digital Factory project’s focal points that take inspiration from Luxottica’s identity principles, while paying attention to the peculiar elements of the place and respecting the social fabric of the neighbourhood hosting the new structure.  Image Courtesy © Andrea Martiradonna
 Image Courtesy © Andrea Martiradonna Park Associati’s project reinterprets the existing industrial building – formerly occupied by General Electric – by maintaining its main volumes and, above all, its character, with contemporary top quality additions both to the façade and inside. The intervention emphasises the building’s original shapes and lines by eliminating any later internal additions and by adapting the building to contemporary safety and sustainability parameters, while preserving the excellent reinforced concrete truss design and enhancing the façade’s vertical shape. The casing is the result of technological and structural research aimed at lending the building the greatest transparency and indoor brightness. The daring and startling façade overlooking Via Tortona consists of a full-height glazed structure with vertical bronzed metal pilasters that bring to mind the sheds.  Image Courtesy © Andrea Martiradonna  Image Courtesy © Andrea Martiradonna Transparency is reflected onto the internal spaces that are completely reinterpreted to accommodate the new functions: the showroom and some commercial spaces on the ground floor, and the Digital Lab – a high-tech innovation centre – on the first floor. Designed by storagemilano in collaboration with Park Associati, the interiors are bright and comfortable and benefit from green leisure and informal meeting areas – the internal garden on the ground floor and the green patios on the first floor. The intervention follows a LEED quality and sustainability protocol, and is estimated to be awarded the “GOLD” class. The Digital Factory helps revitalize an area of the city that from suburban environment has been turned into a vital area, which is thus returned to the urban and social fabric.  Image Courtesy © Andrea Martiradonna  Image Courtesy © Andrea Martiradonna  Image Courtesy © Andrea Martiradonna  Image Courtesy © Andrea Martiradonna  Image Courtesy © Andrea Martiradonna  Image Courtesy © Andrea Martiradonna  Image Courtesy © Lorenzo Zandri  Image Courtesy © Lorenzo Zandri  Image Courtesy © Lorenzo Zandri  Image Courtesy © Lorenzo Zandri  Image Courtesy © Lorenzo Zandri  Image Courtesy © Lorenzo Zandri  Image Courtesy © Lorenzo Zandri  Image Courtesy © Lorenzo Zandri  Image Courtesy © Park Associati  Image Courtesy © Park Associati  Image Courtesy © Park Associati  Image Courtesy © Park Associati
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