Ice Box Pavilion

Computer rendered image of the pavilion.

The Project

Located along the Canalbianco river, the Ice Box pavilion -- an ice cream laboratory -- emerges as an architectural hinge in an anonymous area. The client required a visually vivacious vocabulary besides a speedy construction of the pavilion. The bright orange colour of its facade served this purpose, attracting the attention of the hurried traffic that crosses it.

View of the bright orange face of the pavilion that helps it announce itself to passer-bys.

The pavilion is founded on a net of 5×3 metre meshes, placed on concrete pads. Its front is made up of a wooden structured slab which then rises to translate into the wall, developing into the building's impermeable and insulated cover. This skin is realized with wooden panels which are thermally insulated and coated with a layer of plaster, characteristic of the vernacular style of the region.

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