sign up to promote "The Culture Factory" in Ivrea
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| "THE CULTURE FACTORY" project, for which the Ivrea town council is inviting international submissions for the development of the centre, is online. |
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| Ivrea 26-11-2010 Mission accomplished! announcing "The Culture Factory" |
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| Ivrea 26-11-2010
The speech of the mayor of Ivrea. |
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| Ivrea 7-6-2010 Open letter to Ivrea city council |
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| The coordinator of the Promoter Committee, Giorgio Panattoni, writes to the Mayor of Ivrea, Carlo Della Pepa. | ||
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| Turin 8-3-2010 Regione Piemonte supports the project |
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| The Olivetti Museum included in the programme of the chairman of the Regional Authority of Piedmont, Mercedes Bresso. | ||
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| Ivrea 13-12-2009 Further details from the Promoter Committee |
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| Indications and criteria for implementation in Ivrea. |
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| Ivrea 8-11-2009 Olivetti Museum: initial guidelines |
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| Giorgio Panattoni, coordinator of the Promoter Committee, illustrates the initial project ideas. | ||
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The Olivetti Factory in Ivrea |
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The red brick factory
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The ICO Workshops - - first extension (1934-36): a large building with a reinforced concrete structure and broad ribbon windows. The building’s architectural features serve the technical needs of production operations – in line with contemporary industrial architecture models developed in the USA – without neglecting technical-lighting and, above all, psychological considerations; - - second extension (1937-39): the project consists of a new storey and rear additions to the existing factory; - - third extension (1939-40): construction ex-novo of a building 130 metres long, with an all-glass frontage, praised as a cutting-edge development by the international architectural community of the 1930s. The frontage adopts the principle of an air space enclosed by an external and an internal glass wall, to provide a degree of protection against heat. This protection is enhanced by a system of opaque shutters installed in the airspace, rotating on a vertical axis, to act as sunblinds.
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| The Centro Studi ed Esperienze building The project, assigned to Eduardo Vittoria in 1951, was completed in 1955. The three-storey building consists of a central body from which four asymmetrical wings protrude, to house the four office divisions: typewriters, calculating machines, accounting machines, teleprinters. The building occupies a ground floor surface of approximately 1100 m2, gradually diminishing on the first and second floors, to leave room for large terraces. The external walls are faced with light-blue klinker tiles. In 1965 the building was expanded with a project by Ottavio Cascio, who added two bays to the east wing. Between 1966 and 1968 an anechoic chamber for sound tests, a reverberation chamber for acoustic absorption testing and a series of laboratories were installed below ground.
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| Palazzo Uffici The early studies were handled by Marcello Nizzoli and Mario Oliveri from 1952 to 1955. Subsequently, in 1960, the project was formally assigned to Gian Antonio Bernasconi, Annibale Fiocchi, Marcello Zizzoli. Completed in 1963, the building is designed to accommodate 2000 people, offering layout flexibility and easy horizontal and vertical connections; it is built in extensive grounds, which were also part of the project. From the central hexagon, occupied almost entirely by an imposing staircase, three 70-metre wings of differing widths protrude at an angle of 120° one from the other, to a height of seven storeys. Each wing has a central corridor giving access to offices located on either side. The offices are separated by mobile panels to permit easy modification of office space. The external walls are composed of ribbon windows and pink granite, alternating, on the ground floor only, with a strip of grey syenite.
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| The canteen The canteen and leisure building is part of a larger project for the Olivetti recreational and sports complex. Designed by Ignazio Gardella in 1953, the canteen is an example of the search for a new geometrical architectural code. The hexagonal plan follows the hillside topography and accommodates a spur of rock to blend with its surroundings. In addition to the canteen areas, the building also houses reading and games areas, as well as space for exhibitions and dances. Gardella’s project also envisaged use of the building during the afternoon and evening.
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| The New ICO This building was constructed in 1956-57, along Via Jervis, from a project by Figini and Pollini. Unlike the previous approach, the production areas in the New ICO were differentiated. Two different production phases were housed here: equipment assembly and, under the glass roof designed by Eduardo Vittoria, machining operations. Like the previous workshops, the New ICO presents an all-glass frontage, with horizontal reinforced concrete plant-holders on one side and in the interior courtyard. On the face looking on to the internal courtyard, an innovative yellow-tile covering was chosen for the towers housing the system installations.
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| Rome, 25-11-2010 | |||
| Study conference on Adriano Olivetti | |||
| The Adriano Olivetti Foundation and the "Federico Caffè" Faculty of Economics at the Roma Tre University organises a study conference on Adriano Olivetti. | |||
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| Ivrea, 17-11-2010 | |||
| One hundred years of Olivetti, the industrial project | |||
| As part of the IX Corporate Culture Week, an exhibition and cycle of meetings on the Olivetti culture. | |||
| DOCUMENTS | |||
| Olivetti video playlist on YouTube | |||
| Collection of historic videos, commercials, interviews and eye-witness accounts on the history of the Olivetti company and the worldwide Olivetti myth. | |||
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| The Olivetti factory in Ivrea | |||
| The exhibition "One hundred years of Olivetti, the industrial project" and a season of historic films | |||
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| Olivettiani | |||
| Online community of Olivettiani in Italy and around the world. | |||
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