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The redevelopment of Campari Headquarters in Sesto San Giovanni took place through a new construction which includes an office building on the fronts of Viale Gramsci and Via Sacchetti and residential towers on Via Campari, setting the rest of the area free for the new urban park.

The new Campari headquarters is divided into two main buildings hinged together. One is spread over nine floors above ground and two underground floors, whilst the other has the shape of a bridge and has only two floors above ground, the fourth and fifth, as well as two underground.

These two volumes embrace the office building of the old factory, now assigned as museum of the Company.
A little evidence of industrial heritage, which shows on the closed sides two mosaics evocating the iconic advertising images designed by Depero for Campari.

Designed to be the scene of exhibitions and cultural events, the new lobby is characterized as a large covered plaza that faces to the park.

The residences are divided into four towers shaped like a quarter of a circle, of different heights, covered with red bricks, the highest of which is located on the corner of Via Gramsci and Via Campari.
These towers contain about 100 apartments in addition to commercial activities on the ground floor and they are equipped with the latest technology to meet the needs of environmental sustainability and energy saving.

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The double envelope façade of the office building consists of a mixed system with an external and an internal skin.

The outer skin is a unitised system, which has been pre-assembled in the factory. Each unit is 1.500mm wide x 4.100mm high and consists of a steel profile grid of suitable section (with intermediate transom at 2.050mm high) in which are inserted the terracotta louvers (average weight of each unit is 700 kg).

The inner skin consists of two main components: the spandrel fascia and the glazing.
The spandrel fascia (steel frame, mineral wood insulator and aluminium sheet), having dimension of 4.500mm wide x 1.200mm high, is assembled in the factory and is installed complete with supporting brackets for the external skin and the steel walkway grid. The average weight of each fascia is 550 Kg.

The glazing (2.900mm high from floor to floor) is a stick system with thermal break profiles, which allows the DGU installation or disassembly from the inside of the building (the average weight of the inner skin is 70kg/m

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The system proposed for the site has been designed taking into particular consideration the following observations / assumptions:
-The installation of the primary structures performed without the use of traditional external scaffolding.
-Delivery times have been able to be reduced by using a construction solution that allowed high-speed installation while ensuring a guaranteed high quality of the installed product.
-Given the heavy weight of the DGU (1.500mm wide x 2.900mm high with a weight of 240 kg), it soon becomes evident that all the glazing assembly, removal and replacement if broken, must take place from inside the building.
In consideration of the loads and stresses involved, it was not possible to use the maintenance walkway during the installation activities, which have required the use of bespoke equipment and specialised personnel.

Installation sequence

-Spandrel fascia (4.500mm wide x1.200mm high), complete with brackets and walkway grid;
-External skin units (1.500mm wide x4.100mm high), complete with terracotta louvres;
-Internal skin components (aluminium profiles, glazing, etc), pre-assembled in the factory and then installed from the inside of the building;
-Glazing installation with a specialised vacuum lifting equipment;
-Aluminium Coping in order to achieve a weather tight curtain walling;
-Slab fire stop detail installed from the inside of the building;
-Aluminium interface flashings between curtain walling mullions and internal partitions;
-Finishing aluminium flashings of the internal skin.

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Project Items:

Client: Davide Campari Milano S.p.a.;
Location: Sesto San Giovanni (Mi);
Intended use: Headquarters del Gruppo Campari;
Architectural Design: Arch. Mario Botta;
Space Planning and Interior Design: Progetto CMR
Design and Plannig: Arch. Giancarlo Marzorati;
Main Contractor: Moretti Contract;
Curtain walling systems: Focchi SpA
Double envelope façade with terracotta external skin (design, manufacture and installation - from May 2007 until February 2009);
Photographers: Enrico Cano - Mario Carrieri - Rino Lo Brutto 

Technical data:

Building total surface: m2 25.923;
Offices total surface: m2 9.103;
Lobby and Gallery total surface: m2 3.930;
Parking area total surface: m2 12.890;
Building energetic class: Class B;
Construction time: 24 months;

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