Union Industries
The new industrial building of UNION, a leading manufacturer of non-woven fabric, is set in an area close to the existing plant, replacing some disused warehouses.
The new plant, technically advanced, measuring 90m. in length to 15m. in height and requires a perfectly aseptic environment, characterized by a homogeneous indirect lighting and diffused.
The request of the client was to create an efficient building, well studied in terms of facilities and mechanical systems and architecturally significante.
The impressive volume of the building and the impossibility of its morphological relationship with the surrounding buildings, have suggested a comparison to another scale, that of the landscape.
A closed and irregular volume, composed of faceted planes with silver surfaces, rests on the ground like a great star craft. The glassed strip on ground floor helps to restore the image of a suspended volume, which, in the evening, lights through some of the facades coated polycarbonate.
The new building is aligned to the state road and bordered by a sloping green that shields the view of the parking lot in front.
The building is made with metal supporting structure and outer coating of silver corrugated metal, which reflect the natural light and dematerialized the new building mass.
