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“Living comes first to construction� (Heidegger)
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Profile Paolo Mantero opened his firm in 1999, after years of experience working as architect and project leader for firms such as Renzo Piano Building Workshop, and “Progetto PCMR”. Since then he has worked on different Office design projects for clients such as Autogrill, Accenture and Diesel to name a few, often partnering with Jacobs Engineering. Aside from regular architectural practice, the studio is specialized in Office design, and is used to working side by side with renowned Engineering and Project Management companies. Our staff is composed of an Internal team of specialists and professionals with many years of experience, incorporating a multi-disciplinary and global approach to office design and sustainability, with a project viewpoint of 360°. 5
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Philosophy
Human scale
Sustainability
Integration
Architecture and Interior design are a crucial part of corporate identity and a phyisical representation of the firm’s values. They define the company’s image and market placement as much as all corporate identity aspects. Therefore, the main goal of the project is to reinforce the company’s philosophy and objectives by creating a space that effectively represents them.
Designing for people is the key concept behind all aspects of the project. The primary objective is to provide an effective response and sensibility with regards to human needs, designing quality space, and within sustainable and comfortable environments where people can live and work pleasantly.
Sustainability is not an abstract concept, but an easily perceivable value. In order to reduce energy consumption and environmental impact, an optimisation of efficiency and of available resources is essential. Achievable objectives only through a rationalisation and simplification of proposed design solutions, especially when dealing with office space, where flexibility, and the ability to personalise and reconfigure easily are essential requisites for a successful project. Space, considering its materials and energy consumption, is not infinite, and there a precious and expensive resource.
Already starting from the initial phases, the team incorporates an integrated approach with a multiprofessional viewpoint to all the project’s aspects, also using external specialist consultants if necessary. The result is a balance of each discipline as applied to the project, providing the Client with the best design options possible. Only in this way, can we assuredly monitor all project variables, such as expected quality, meeting deadlines, and cost efficiency.
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BNL
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BNL Acting as the core of an ambitious renovation project of the surrounding area, nested upon the New High Speed Railway Station, the interior design project for the New BNL Roma Tiburtina Headquarters holds ‘Culture’ as its highest value, capable of spurring both innovation and professional growth, while simultaneously creating profit. The project underlines the importance knowledge has to BNL by offering services and solutions which are tailored to suit the needs of both individual employees and the company they work for. A new, wideopen space, capable of accomodating almost 4,000 people, both workers and guests. A small ‘working city’, featuring all the necessary assets and commodities for social and communal life,
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such as a Restaurant, a Bar, an Auditorium, a Kindergarten, and internal BNL Subsidiary -acting as a bridge between the company and the rest of the world, and promoting a radical change in the company’s policy: from the ‘culture of Banking’ to ‘the bank of Culture’. Ample hybrid areas set between working and relax spaces, cozy and comfortable, will allow for a pleasant and productive workspace, as employees will feel their personal needs and necessities are cared for by their employers. The project was developed with sobriety and rationality in mind, which are distinctive traits of the BNL brand, while eco-compatible and sustainable materials
and resources are employed in all aspects of interior spaces design. Figurative arts, paintings, sculptures, literarture, design and everything falling within the boundaries of’culture’ has the power to enrich people and allows for their personal and professional growth, which is the company’s ultimate goal. Creativity, beauty and ‘culture’ will resonate throughout every facet of the project.
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CREDITS
Project Management
Interior Design
Jacobs Engineering
Paolo Mantero with NEXT Urban Solutions Space Planning
PROJECT INFO
DEGW
BNL Headquarters Roma Tiburtina (year of
Architectural Project
completion 2016)
5+1AA
Built surface 70.000 mq
Engineering
Office surfice 50.000 mq
Starching
Workstations 3.300
Consultants Acusticastudio (acoustic design) Voltaire Design (lighting design) CM Srl (A/V design )
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DIESEL
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Diesel 65,000 square metres of pure creativity, immersed in the Venetian country side: offices, restaurants, bar, gym, childcare centre and an auditorium surrounded by continuous landscape, including an immense vegetation wall incorporated into the reception, guaranteeing quality towards facility employees and offering quality spaces for concentration, health and breaks at all times during the day. By using space planning criteria and effective solutions for interior design strategies, we contributed towards achieving sustainability for the project, guaranteeing flexibility and the possibility to reconfigure spaces in harmony with ecology, comfort and appeal. Systems, such as lighting, heating/cooling and automation, were highly coordinated to work with the interior’s architectural design and office layout, offering a general quality
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of services and architectural space which are sometimes difficult to achieve with projects of these dimensions. For the first-time visitor, the sensation one has when inside this building (not with standing its vastness) is the sense of humanscale, comfort and the feeling of being welcomed, with intimate corners and areas where one can find “refuge”, when the bustling starts to intensify. This concept is consistent with Mr. Rosso’s initial idea and what he always had imagined. The result, as the images suggest, is a sequence of spaces with few, simple rules always expressing (at all areas) the “product”, with a creative explosion of colour and extravagance which are, without question, quintessential aspects of Diesel as a brand. 25
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CREDITS
PROJECT INFORMATION
Interior Design
New Headquarters (VI) 2010
Paolo Mantero with Jacobs Engineering and Diesel
Built area 64.000 Square metres
Creative Team
Office area 35.500 Square metres
Space Planning
Workstations 1.000
Paolo Mantero with Jacobs Engineering Architecture Arch. Pierpaolo Ricatti Engineering and Construction Management Jacobs Engineering Consultants Biobyte (acoustics) Voltaire Design (lighting design) Land (landscape)
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JACOBS
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Jacobs Simplicity was the main objective for this rehabilitation design project. Simplicity brings with itself rationality, flexibility and space Identity. Jacobs, as a global Engineering leader, desired for its headquarters, functionality and sobriety. These are values which are coherent with the company’s philosophy, leaving very little concessions to the interior designer. The eternal dilemma of form vs. function finds an equilibrium by designing space to directly address functions which provide and generate an office environment, where series and repetition (essential towards cost optimisation and flexibility) become an advantage while perceiving space in terms of its architecture and interior design. Ordinary sequence of the interiors of open space on one side, and closed space on the other, perfectly interpret the idea of project
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paolomanteroarchitetto simplicity. Natural and artificial light are integrated within the space, offering quality and comfort, while measured use of colour in common spaces mixed with working areas having white and lightwood, create a modular equilibrium and harmony to the continuation of spaces. This effect is not only pleasing to the everyday user, but also to the visitor as seen from the outside. Interior walls, whose play with transparency, amplifies the perception of space, helping internal communication levels, and permit natural light to penetrate in at the lowest levels of the building. This provides a considerable reduction of energy need with regards to artificial lighting. CREDITS Space planning and interior design Paolo Mantero Engineering Jacobs Engineering PROJECT INFORMATION New Headquarters Milan 2010 Area 4.000 Square metres Workstations 225
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UNIFOR
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Unifor showroom The new Uniform Showroom is located within an old industrial building in Prague. Its design was coordinated so that it should represent the image of all Unifor showrooms. The interiors are laid out in a 200 square metre space, designed to offer both a refined and functional exposition area. Suspended floors in wood which become a bench on the side, represent slightly the idea of an Ark: capable of abstracting itself from the building which it finds itself in, offering different arrangement scenarios, and at the same time conserving the company’s identity through time and space.
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paolomanteroarchitetto CREDITS Concept and Interior Design Paolo Mantero PROJECT INFORMATION New Showroom Prague 2011 Area 200 Square metres
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TECNOCAR
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Tecnocar The client’s objective for this project was to reuse an old industrial warehouse from the 1960’s, and adopt it to become its new headquarters, efficient and compact, incorporating a sustainable approach to the design and highly limiting costs. The design idea was simple, and almost mandatory. It called for intervening on the interior courtyard’s façade, where the entrance was located. Its large internal volume with double floor spaces was recuperated, rekindling the building’s potential in uniting effectively the administrative functions with those of logistics and the warehouse. Chosen materials, wood for façades and stone for external flooring, underlines the need to value the highest expressions of architecture: form, function, atmosphere and environmental compatibility. Wood and stone, carriers of ancient
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paolomanteroarchitetto emotions and memory, are re-interpreted to reflect a contemporary language, universally comprehensible. New openings create a strong synergy between closed and open spaces, transforming the faรงades into a sort of interface with dynamic articulation of interior and exterior areas. Interior light, available through large windows, transparent partitions and through a regular distribution of spaces, favours an increase in production and at the same time, protects the investment as time goes by from a business point of view. CREDITS Space planning, Architecture and Interior Design Paolo Mantero PROJECT INFORMATION New Headquarters Milan 2007 Area 1.500 Square metres Workstations 50
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DENTADENT
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Dentadent A new way to conceive a dental clinic, and at the same time, generate spaces needed for health assistance. The concept developed for new Dentadent clinics, recently built at the Oriocenter in Bergamo, revolutionised the image and spaces of the old, dental clinic. Christened “Smile with us�, as this reflects the slogan we came up with for Dentadent, and this is also our philosophy which we adopted for the project’s idea: to make you feel at home, away from fears and discomfort which normally occur when a patient arrives at the dentist. The main idea, which is the corner stone of this project, was to conceive the spaces so that patients arrive in an environment that resembles a luxury boutique, offering diagnostics and wellness to the patient. An innovative model in terms of image, reception, materials, furnishings, and technological solutions incorporated. 51
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CREDITS Concept and Interior Design Paolo Mantero Engineering and Construction Management GSP Italia PROJECT INFORMATION New Clinic Oriocenter Bergamo 2012 Area 400 Square metres Dentist stations 7
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MEDTRONIC
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Medtronic Light, transparency, heat, and liberty are concepts which have inspired the project for this new headquarters for Metronic in Milan. This company invented the first battery-run pacemakers, and since then, has become a global leader in technology and the medical industry. Based on our specifications of space planning and interior design, this building was completely conceived for Medtronic. The image and corporate identity of the company communicate through both internal and external working areas. The large, common break area provides a good idea of the project’s philosophy: eliminating hierarchic, physical and mental boundaries between company resources, from the CEO to all levels of employees. This space also provides an adequate environment needed for both relaxing, in addition to business
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and work functions. The office areas, unique in
CREDITS
innovation, are still a benchmark to imitate for
Space Planning and Interior Design
solutions regarding systems, architecture, and
Paolo Mantero
space planning (furnishing, acoustics, indirect light,
Architecture
ventilation, etc.).
Arch. Giancarlo Marzorati
Medtronic Italia received the “Great Places to Work�
Engineering and Construction Management
award in 2012, placing this company in the top-
Jacobs Engineering
ten list for the best working environments in the medical industry.
PROJECT INFORMATION New Headquarters Milan 2003 Area 8.000 Square metres Workstations 350
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ALLIANZBANK
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Allianzbank This office, located within Palazzo Mellerio in Milan (restored in 1993 by Studio Caccia Dominioni), is one of the most important and primary offices for Allianz in Italy. The client requested that we re interpret the rigidity and limitations set forth by the historic spaces of Palazzo Mellerio, based on an innovative and visionary concept adhering to the image and services offered by the Bank. The design surpassed all limitations imposed by the building’s architecture, while at the sime time, respecting the historic aspects of the building without receiving physical or psychological conditioning. The result was a unique and “lively� arrangement, capable of responding efficiently to all operative needs of a modern bank, both in terms of function and image.
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paolomanteroarchitetto CREDITS Concept and Interior Design Paolo Mantero Engineering and Project Management Progetto CMR PROJECT INFORMATION New Office Milan 2006 Area 400 Square metres
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AUTOGRILL
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Autogrill The challenge we had for this competition for Autogrill’s new headquarters was to re-think the building’s architecture and entrance scheme, in addition to the internal arrangement of offices being coherent to the image and prestige of the company’s brand. This project won the competition, and responded to Autogrill’s requests with a simple and effective proposal, responding to the company’s image profile, functional needs and efficiency. The redesign of the main stairs, with aluminium facing, and a great hall with triple heights, which release or “rip open” the old façade (in the form of a curtain wall, facing towards all floors of the building), are the architectural elements which revolve around the project. The space layout, incorporating light wood and glass elements that are consistent with
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paolomanteroarchitetto the architectural whole, uniforms all choices for the interior design at all areas. This concept is applied to both operational and executive functions of the building, offering at all areas a high quality in space definition and perception in accordance to its corporate identity. CREDITS Architecture, Space Planning and Interior Design Paolo Mantero Engineering and Construction Management Jacobs Engineering PROJECT INFORMATION New Headquarters Milan 2001 Area 12.000 Square metres Workstations 500
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ZURICH Milan 2011 Competition (not assigned) for the refurbishment of Via Sandro Sandri 1 in Milan (10.000sqm)
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DESIO Desio MI (with Progetto CMR) 2007/2009 Preliminary and executive design for the Desio Tower building with offices destination in Desio MI (24.000sqm)
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PROVINCIA PARMA Provincia di Parma New Offices Parma 2009/2010 (with MTAA Associati, Prof. Arch. M. Sala, Prof. Ing. M. Majowiecki, Marco Fabbri & Angela Fazioli, ITECO srl, EL. srl, Arch. C. NifosĂŹ). Competition for space planning and building design of the Provincia di Parma New Offices (12.000sqm) The project was awarded the Fifth Prize.
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CHIESI Parma 2005/2006 Competition for the design of the New Research Center Chiesi Pharmaceutical in Parma (60.000sqm/350staff)
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STAFF Noventa Vicentina VI (with Jacobs Engineering) 2005/2006 Organization and feasibility analysis aimed at space planning and concept design for the redevelopment and the extension of the Staff Headquarters in Noventa Vicentina VI (33.000sqm/480staff)
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SIEMENS Milan (with Progetto CMR) 2008 Competition for the design of the New Siemens Headquarters in Milan with advanced criteria for environmental sustainability (60.000sqm). The project was awarded the Second Prize.
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SOHO Tianjin (with Progetto CMR) 2003/2004 Masterplan for a lot of a New Satellite Town with mixed use, residential and offices in Tianjin suburbs (2.000.000sqm)
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CHENGDU ROAD Tianjin (with Progetto CMR) 2004 Preliminary design for the re-design of an urban block for mixed use, retail, residential, offices and hotel in Tianjin downtown (150.000sqm)
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BRACCO Cesano Maderno MI (with Jacobs Engineering) 2005 Concept design for the refurbishment of an Industrial complex, to be transformed into an office building (10.000sqm)
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RESIDENTIAL
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References
Accenture AllianzBank Autogrill Autostrade Avanade Beach Company BGS d’Arcy Chiesi Farmaceutici Dentadent Diesel Ecare Glaxo SmithKline Gewiss Jacobs Intertecnica Engineering Medtronic Microsoft
Pharmacia Upjohn Provincia di Parma Rai Staff Tecnocar Service Unifor Vital Zurich
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