Sandrigo (VI)
NOV 2020 - JAN 2021
FITT FUTURE HEADQUARTERS
Temples, buildings and mausoleums: architecture has always been a communication tool. In order to celebrate human and divine events, throughout history architects have always been spokespeople of the civilization they were required to represent by materializing its splendor and petrifying its ambitions.
In more recent times, large corporations started to claim some prerogatives of architecture that used to be an ancient apanage of sovereigns and divinities. The Rockefeller Center, the Chrysler Building, the Apple Campus are some of the most iconic architectures of the last century. Such unique architectures are named after great economic and industrial events or distinguished people of production and economy.
One of these colossuses is FITT Group. It is a leading company in the manufacture and development of the most innovative fluid transfer solutions for domestic, professional and industrial applications. It is an international excellence with an Italian heart based on a solid tradition of continuous research, technological innovation and social commitment.
After 50 years, FITT keeps on looking ahead by giving to architecture the opportunity to express its values, mission and goals.
For this reason, FITT Future Headquarters is being launched. This is FITT’s competition to design its new headquarters. Through this competition, architects will have the opportunity to suggest their own vision of future workspace. In this place, leadership, progress and corporate identity shall be translated into architectural shapes to become an international reference in workplace architecture.
FITT will host a center to become the symbol of modernity and progress. The corporation’s community will meet to develop intuitions and research in a new complex designed to amaze and inspire. Such center will compete with the most innovative headquarters of the international scenario to forge a future of wealth, sustainability and innovation.
YAC thanks all the architects who will take part in this challenge.
All the awarded proposals will be transmitted to architectural magazines and websites + international exhibitions
All the awarded proposals will be transmitted to architectural magazines and websites + international exhibitions
All the awarded proposals will be transmitted to architectural magazines and websites + international exhibitions
All the awarded proposals will be transmitted to architectural magazines and websites + international exhibitions
All the awarded proposals will be transmitted to architectural magazines and websites + international exhibitions
All the awarded proposals will be transmitted to architectural magazines and websites + international exhibitions
All the awarded proposals will be transmitted to architectural magazines and websites + international exhibitions
Architect and engineer Carlo Ratti teaches at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA) where he directs MIT Senseable City Lab, a research group that studies how new technologies are shaping the way we understand, design and live in our cities. He co-founded the innovation and design international studio Carlo Ratti Associati in Turin in 2004. Esquire magazine has included him in the "Best & Brightes", Forbes in the "Names You Need to Know" and Wired in the list of "50 people who will change the world", Fast Company mentioned him among "The 50 most influential designer in America" and Thames & Hudson among the "60 innovators shaping our creative future". Two of his projects - Digital Water Pavillion and Copenhagen Wheel - were included in the list of "The best inventions of the year" of Time Magazine (2007 and 2014). In 2014, Copenhagen Wheel was awarded the prestigious Red Dot: Best of the Best award.
Born in 1971, France. Emmanuelle Moureaux is a French architect living in Tokyo since 1996, where she established "emmanuelle moureaux architecture + design" in 2003. Inspired by the layers and colors of Tokyo that built a complex depth and density on the street, and the Japanese traditional spatial elements like sliding screens, she has created the concept of shikiri, which literally means "dividing (creating) space with colors". She uses colors as three-dimensional elements, like layers, in order to create spaces, not as a finishing touch applied on surfaces. Her representative works include the architectural design for Sugamo Shinkin Bank, space design for ABC Cooking Studio, installations for UNIQLO and ISSEY MIYAKE, and stick chair. Member of "Tokyo Society of Architects", the "Architectural Institute of Japan", and the "Japan Institute of Architects", in 2016 she completed the artistic design of the Mass Rapid Transit "Circular Line commissioned by the New Taipei City Government in Taiwan where her colors will spread into city-scale.
Nicola is a registered architect in the UK and Italy and a RIBA chartered member. His experience includes buildings that have pioneered a sustainable approach to architecture and include a strikingly wide range of work, from urban masterplans, airports, civic and cultural buildings, hospitality and residential, workplaces, R&D and high-rise buildings. He is a Partner at Foster + Partners, one of the most innovative architecture and integrated design practices in the world.
Born in Istanbul in 1969. Following his education at Istanbul Saint Michel High School, he graduated from the Mimar Sinan University Faculty of Architecture in 1992. He founded ‘Erginoğlu&Çalışlar Architects’ in 1993, together with Kerem Erginoğlu. He has been a jury member in Uludağ University, Istanbul Technical University, and Yıldız Technical University and has also been a guest lecturer at Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul Technical University, and Yıldız Technical University. He is a member of the Chamber of Architects and Istanbul Architects Association. His projects and articles have been published in various architectural magazines.
Consultant and director of Degw Italia, Alessandro Adamo breathes life into the new ways of experiencing the office, by designing environments that aspire to the values of mobility, informal elegance and the need to share, which characterise the new spirit of the contemporary workplace. In 1999, Alessandro became manager of the DEGW Consultancy Area for Italy. After a short period of 2 years at AEDES, in January 2009 he returned to DEGW, becoming director of DEGW Italia. In 2015, at the end of the process designed to integrate DEGW into the Lombardini22 Group, which had been transformed into a joint stock company, he became a partner of the Group, taking the helm of the Business Unit dedicated to the workplace. Alessandro has clearly dedicated his career to managing change in various companies throughout Italy, actively experiencing all the different changes of scenery which have occurred in the last, crucial, three decades of evolution in the world of employment. Today Alessandro is one of the top experts in the field of international consultancy specialised in the integrated design of working environments.
Alessandro Mezzalira is FITT Group’s chairman. He boasts a ten-year experience as CEO of his family’s company Faraplan. When he was only 33- in 2007- he took control of the group founded by his father Rinaldo in 1969. In 2015, he adopted a vision aiming to consolidate the FITT brand and bring together under one name and identity all the companies of the group located in Europe. He is passionate and brilliant. He is also aware of the companies increasing social and environmental responsibility. He leads the main European pipes manufacturer by promoting the culture of collaboration and endless innovation. He came up with the internationalization projects on the American and Chinese markets. He also decided to add sustainability to the main values of the company vision. “the goal we have to achieve is this: contributing to make the world a better place for us and future generations”.
Audun Opdal joined 3XN in 2008 upon graduating from the Aarhus School of Architecture, becoming Partner in 2015, and Senior Partner in 2018. Over the years, Audun has been an integral member of the Competition Department and contributes to the design development, detailed functionality, flow, conceptual analysis and presentation of large-scale competition projects. His work exemplifies the 3XN belief that Architecture Shapes Behaviour, and this is very much the red-thread throughout which has resulted in winning several international design competitions, including Circular Quay Tower in Sydney and the Royal Arena in Copenhagen. His ability to work cross-culturally on highly complex projects has been a great part of 3XN’s success on International markets, particularly in North America and Australia. Audun is leading two projects on Toronto’s waterfront in Canada, as well as the world’s largest Fish Market on Blackwattle Bay in Sydney, Australia. At the moment, Audun is heading the design of a new tower scheme in Broadgate.
Patrik Schumacher is principal of Zaha Hadid Architects and is leading the firm since Zaha Hadid’s passing in April 2016. He joined Zaha Hadid in 1988, has been a co-author on most projects and was seminal in developing Zaha Hadid Architects to become a 400 strong global architecture and design brand. In 1996 he founded the Design Research Laboratory at the Architectural Association where he continues to teach. He is lecturing worldwide and recently held the John Portman Chair in Architecture at Harvard’s GSD. Over the last 20 years he has contributed over 100 articles to architectural journals and anthologies. In 2008 he coined the phrase Parametricism and has since published a series of manifestos promoting Parametricism as the new epochal style for the 21st century. In 2010/2012 he published his two-volume theoretical opus magnum “The Autopoiesis of Architecture”. He recently guest-edited the magazine AD - Parametricism 2.0 – setting architecture’s agenda for the 21st Century with a new emphasis on the societal relevance of parametricism.
