The project involved the construction of a new chemical laboratory for quality control of one of the most important Italian agri-food companies. The project also involved the external areas of the building and the green areas with regard to the main accessibility and the logistics flows of service, in addition, 21 parking spaces were built in the external square adjacent to the planned building.

The building, of rectangular plan, is composed of a main building with one floor above ground and a partial second level above ground exclusively for technological space, the body of the laboratories is completed with a volume of prefabricated structure destined to technological space and warehouse.

Externally the building looks like a white, compact and airtight volume with respect to the surrounding rural context with a predominantly horizontal trend. The horizontality is also underlined by the presence, on the main façades, of strip windows shaded by white vertical shading elements in pre-painted aluminum, shaped with different profiles that create dynamism to the façades. The entrance space, which is accessed via a pedestrian ramp, is identified by a volume with fully glazed walls, lowered compared to the main building which visually detaches from the compact volume of the laboratories.

The laboratories are developed on a level served by a pedestrian suspended ceiling that guarantees flexibility with the possibility of reconfiguring the systems without affecting the operating continuity of the spaces below. The structure of the laboratory block is mixed, partly prefabricated and partly cast in situ. On the roof of the building a photovoltaic system has been created connected to the building’s electrical system with polycrystalline silicon solar panels.

The plant is complete with the necessary inverters and equipment for connection to the building system.

The external lighting of the areas belonging to the building, such as the parking area, the entrance porch, the external square and the connecting road controlled by an automatic device able to switch the lighting on and off according to well-defined time bands able to control the reduction of the luminous flux during the night hours.

The entire design process was carried out using a dedicated software set up on BIM (Building Information Modeling) protocols.