![Food Container Remixed / Spacelab Architects - Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5010/2a93/28ba/0d42/2200/0f2c/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1361407967)
Text description provided by the architects. From box to hypercube. This brand new commercial building is a part of a wider urban district planned from Spacelab Architecture since 2006 in the city of Porto Sant`Elpidio - middle Italy, in the course of completion. The client brief was to realize the maximum formal impact in the limits of precast construction and basic tipology dictated by the medium-commercial function. We intended this limits as an occasion to conduct the modular precast construction to new formal results.
![Food Container Remixed / Spacelab Architects - Windows](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5010/2aa7/28ba/0d42/2200/0f30/medium_jpg/stringio.jpg?1360860885)
Mixing two structural systems {precast concrete grid + metal reticular truss}, the box resulting from urban plan parameters {maximum surface and height} is made more complicated in the entrance side by a tridimensional prismatic intrusion in the original volume, distinguished by using glass and other traslucent materials in comparison to other opaque fronts.
![Food Container Remixed / Spacelab Architects - Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5010/2a98/28ba/0d42/2200/0f2d/newsletter/stringio.jpg?1360860872)
The result is a distorsion of perception near the main facade overlooking the public space, inside a more basic/stereometric frame. The other sides are charaterized by a precast custom-made concrete envelope, which module is denied by a continue abstract texture visually connecting each panel to the contiguous. Windows are obtaided by subtracting material inside the texture pattern.
![Food Container Remixed / Spacelab Architects - Image 13 of 21](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/5010/2aac/28ba/0d42/2200/0f31/medium_jpg/stringio.jpg?1360860890)