The headquarters of the Italian group Casillo are located in the industrial fabric of the Italian city of Corato. The architectural studio of Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners has been in charge of designing the building as a rectangular box-shaped body, a single block built in order to provide the proper work environment.

Project description by Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners

The new Casillo Headquarters are located in the outskirts of the city of Bari, Italy, in itsindustrial zone. The surface area of the intervention is of approximately 6,000 squaremeters, part of which will be dedicated to green areas, parking lots intended for theoffices and for roadways specifically used by trucks.

The building proper is more than 4.500 square meters, on three levels including the underground parking. It houses a conference hall, offices, workshop area and openspace, management offices and a control room for checking goods and production. Around the building there are 1.500 square meters of landscape with trees and grass.

The new office block was designed as a rectangular box-shaped body of about 55 x 27meters, with two floors above ground that rest on a plinth of an approximate height of 1.50 meters. The base is a monolithic construct, inside of which are carved: stairs andramps as part of the main access, a ramp for disabled persons, stairs used mainly bytruck drivers that have access to the control room, and large openings in order to allow light and air into the basement areas. The center of the block has a courtyard withapproximate dimensions of 13 x 7 meters necessary to air and ventilate the rooms thatoverlook it. The courtyard is one of the main defining elements of the architecture thatnot only allows proper lighting to penetrate the offices and corridors, but guaranteesthe well-being and visual comfort of the people who work within the building every day.Two staircases serve the volume that houses the offices; these are accompanied byelevators that have skylights allowing further light and illuminate all possibly dark spaces.

The building is meant to be perceived as a single block composed of white finishedwalls, enriched by the modular occurrence of micro-perforated metal orange panels.The conference room and the control room both have been conceived as glasscontainers that plug into the body of the block.

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Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners Srl (Massimo Alvisi, Junko Kirimoto, Alessandra Spiezia, Arabella Rocca).
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Project team
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Leonardo Lorusso, Enrico Pisani, Sara Averardi.
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Colaborators
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Structural engineering: ing. Giovanni Loiudice.
Mechanical and electrical engineering: ing. Mario Semproni.
Construction site supervision: Ufficio .
Tecnico Casillo: Ing. Michele Coviello.
Security: Ing. Sabino Lotito.
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Client
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Molino Casillo.
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Area
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4,500 sqm (building).
1,500 sqm (outdoor spaces).
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Dates
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Beginning of project: 2008.
Construction: 2009-2012.
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Location
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Via Sant’Elia, Corato, Bari, Italy.
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Budget
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Approximately 6,5 million €.
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Concrete: Tecnodelta Costruzioni Spa.
Metalwork and woodwork: O.C.M. Srl. Windows and doors: Coesi Srl.
Iron works: Sergio Menduni.
Woodwork: Spaziodue Snc.
Wood finishes and flooring: Schinco Parquet.
Furniture and movable panels: Frezza Spa.
Technological systems: Luigi Perrone Srl.
Electrical systems: Ram Elettronica Srl.
Industrial floors: Vinella Srl.
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Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners, after 10 years of working in collaboration with architects like Renzo Piano, Massimiliano Fuksas and Oscar Niemeyer, Massimo Alvisi and Junko Kirimoto founded the architecture office Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners in 2002. A few years afterwards they established an engineering partnership with Alessandra Spiezia and Arabella Rocca in 2008.

The main finished projects by Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners are: Molino Casillo Headquarters in Puglia, Italy; a complex of small and medium factories in Barletta (Bari), Italy; the Naples Fine Arts Academy Theater, Italy; a hotel in Dalmine (Bergamo), Italy; a residential building in Trani (Bari), Italy; the temporary pavilions for the Rome Cinema Fest, Italy; the new Japanese restaurant Hamasei in Rome, Italy; the Davide Cenci’s stores in Rome and in Milan, Italy; the TIM shop Il telefonino in Genova and the TIM showroom in Rome, Italy.

The office has collected several awards in the past few years: first prize for “Meno è più 4” competition for a nursery and civic centre in Rome; second prize for “Piccole Stazioni Ferroviarie” competition; second prize for “Madrid 2016 – kayak site” competition for Madrid Olympic nomination; first prize for the “Corato Theatre restoration” competition, a building which was recently opened to the public. Among various prizes, the AIT Award 2012 for the Naples Art Academy Theater, selected in the category: public building interiors.

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Published on: April 2, 2013
Cite: "Casillo Headquarters by Alvisi Kirimoto + Partners" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/casillo-headquarters-alvisi-kirimoto-partners> ISSN 1139-6415
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