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The redevelopment of industrial archaeology area is a problem that frequently affect our urban centres. Very often these are large areas of great historical
value and, due to the abandonment, are in degraded conditions. Never the less these complexes, properly restored, can become great development
Manifattura Tabacchi was born in Borgo Sacco quarter in the mid-nineteenth century. Starting from that moment, Rovereto became the centre of tobacco production in Trentino Alto Adige, bringing employment and wellness to the local population. The activity continued uninterrupted until 2008, when production was moved to a production plant in Lecce. Fortunately, the Trentino Sviluppo agency was born in the same year, an authority of the autonomous province of Trento, which acquired the entire area and started a complex redevelopment of the structure, creating a fly-wheel for the local companies and founding a large laboratory focused on Green Innovation research. The project is innovative thanks to the type of spaces that architects Kengo Kuma and Carlo Ratti have imagined. The whole structure appears in fact as a connective tissue which connects public and private spaces. The symbol of this concept is certainly a long strip of land that hides inside offices and laboratories, while outside it is covered with greenery and crossed by
a long-raised floor for the circulation of the public. It is an attention to environment which translates also into a use of recyclable materials and green sources of energy. The raised floor installed on this structure, which a lot of people have called “green blanket�, has considerable dimensions. For its realization, the builders used the supports for raised floors of the company Impertek. This laying system was in fact the most suitable to combine the needs of stability, efficiency and speed of work. The project was supposing to lay a raised floor composed by big-format stone tiles and long wooden boards, thus using the two most suitable materials to that place. To realize this mixed floor, architects have chosen to use Rail System by Impertek. Thanks to this modular system, it was possible to realize with ease and great precision, a raised floor which normally would have required a great deal of time and money. Rail System is composed by height-adjustable supports, where aluminium joists Rail are hooked. Upside these joists, the Top Rail AS heads find place and support the components of the
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