Outside Inside
The Factory of the Future becomes a research and manufacturing hub where technology is at the service of man. It is no longer an alienating place, but highly qualified and qualifying, an expression of a new way of working. It opens to the possibility to become a landmark, a mix between a headquarter, an operative space and product display space.
Concept DesignOpen Project
ClientEdizione Property S.p.A.LocationMetropolisYear 2019
The project represents an extreme vision of some concepts that characterize the production process of the near future. The idea comes from the desire to move plants that until now were destined to be in peripheral areas of the city, into the city, integrating the buildings within the urban fabric and making them accessible by public transport.
The relocation of these various functions and their integration within the urban fabric allow for homogenous growth and development of the city as an urban polycentric landscape. At the same time the peripheral areas are injected with parks, giving prestige to areas that today are anything but luxurious.
A not-so-distant future scenario is imagined, where horizontal logistics becomes vertical and aerial, thanks to the use of the drone. This gives rise to the need to design a module, which branches out in three directions in space based on the needs and functions that it occupies. The building is modular and allows for the addition and removal of parts based on production needs.
Like paints capable of absorbing air pollution in cities, we imagine the walls and components of these factories will contribute to the improvement of the city’s well-being. Imagining things that do not yet exist, that shock the current system, is the first step in getting closer to new inventions of the future.