Carozzi production and research food centre, santiago metroplitan region, chile

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Carozzi Production and Research Food Center, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile: Rise from the Ashes Architecture has bound to face challenge in one way or the other whether it appear in terms of design or engineering. However, challenges play a motivational force behind creation of any new structure as it is an opportunity for the maker to make possible the impossible. In present scenario it is the Carozzi factory which was burnt in 2010. Later on it gone through the process of rebuilding and completed in 2012. Situated in San Bernardo of Santiago Metropolitan Region in Chile, Carozzi Company renamed as Carozzi Production and Research Food Centre is designed by Guillermo Hevia Architects with leading designers named Javier Gonzรกlez E, Francisco Carriรณn G and Tomรกs Villalรณn A. It has won Best Building of 2015 in Industrial Architectures.

Carozzi is extends over to 52000 sqm of total area. It consists of civic space and an open space which is apparently lies in the centre of company. The public space is confined by waving factory roofs, horizontal red volume and office building. Main material used for construction was glass, steel and concrete. There was a bigger impression of previous generation, one could find in the construction. Some of them are non-resistant ventilation, natural lighting, water upturn and usage of hydric resources. Being an Industrial plant, one would always expect a shabby and damaging environment but here in Carozzi the situation is opposite. The faรงade is ventilated with double skin which avoids the exhaustion with the accompaniment of garden and green


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