Article source: MDU architetti

A sea almost completely built, with a few remaining spots agricultural, crossed by the lines of the roadways of high slip along the east-west: this is the view of the plain of Florence, Prato and Pistoia from the hills that surround it. You can identify the three town centers to the higher settlement density that characterizes them than building more dispersed around them, but now the city has replaced the campaign in the perception of internal hierarchies of the territory. From this vantage point on the hills is only imaginable, at night, the darkness that up to fifty years ago enveloped with the few weak lights at its old centers: the transition from day to night was a gradual dissolution of the light in the silence.

Image Courtesy © Pietro Savorelli

• Architects: MDU architetti
• Project: Showroom Essebi
• Location: Agliana, Tuscany, Italy
• Photography: Pietro Savorelli
• Structural engineer: ing. Jacopo Ceramelli, ing. Alberto Antonelli, ing. Daniele Storai
• Client: ESSE.BI divani e poltrone s.r.l.
• Schedule: project: may 2004
• Building: july-november 2004

Dimentions

• Site: 930 mq
• Gross area: 330 mq
• Volume : 1600 mc