Article source: Andrea Maffei Achitects

The competition place is located in Vittorio Veneto street in Maranello (Modena), inside a well- established residential fabric. The building borders with a residential court on the north, with a public green area on the west, with a residential building on the south built in adherence and with other residential buildings on the East and partially in adherence. The project we propose presents a surface equal to 1175 mq. It is the existing building renovation trough the existing north perimeter walls maintenance, east and south confining with some residential offices, the demolition of the central part of the prefabricated and the construction of a library as a volume contained within the old building’s height limits and developed partly outside the earth and partly under the earth. The access to the new library is situated on the west side.

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• Architects: Andrea Maffei Achitects
• Project: Maranello New Library
• Location: Maranello, Italy
• Program: Library
• Client: Maranello Patrimonio s.r.l.
• Competition: april 2007
• Contract: june 2008
• Construciton start: september 2009
• Construction end: august 2011
• Opening: september 2011
• Design team: Arata Isozaki, M+T & Partners
• Security: arch. Enrico Bianchini
• Structure: ing. Mario Sbrozzi, Studio Sbrozzi, Modena
• Plants: ing. Manuele Petranelli, Studio Petranelli, Firenze
• Green: dott.sa agr. Laura Gatti, studio Gatti, Milano
• Lighting design: Koichi Tanaka, M+K Design, Milano
• Cost: € 1.718.733,00
• Site area: 850 mq.
• Gross built area: 1.175 mq.
• Gross floor area: 1.175 mq.
• Maximum height: 5.3 m