DEFINITIVE AND EXECUTIVE PLANNING OF THE NEW BUILDING OF MICROSOFT ITALIA S.p.A. IN ROME (2004)
The original idea wasn’t developed only in relation to a typology for office building, but also considering the concept of office automation, Microsoft’s core business. In this context we developed the first sketches on which we built the architectural solution that distinguishes the morphological features. Strongly persuaded by the sinuous shape of the elegant Microsoft logo and, after analyzing all the technical and functional aspects, we realized that the distributional and functional solution of the components suggested the choice of a linear building that we wanted to harmonize according to the elegant lines of the logo. A decisive factor for the realization of the work was the combination of terracotta and glass, solid and void, evocative of Picasso’s Blue and Rose Periods.