Study and Research Centre
A novel once observed that “Ivrea is a kind of beach where the future arrives in bottles.” Perhaps that is why the building where new Olivetti products were conceived, besides being a masterpiece of architectural form, was built in the color of the sea?
Former Sertec Building
If Olivetti is a planet, Sertec is one of its satellites, founded in the late 1960s as an international engineering company. Its first headquarters embodied the boldness of its ideas: exposed concrete on the external tower, forms that interact with the hillside, and red interiors inspired by Pop Art.
New Olivetti Office Building
An Office Building already existed, and the new one could not simply imitate it. So, a distinguished architect, also a designer awarded four Compasso d’Oro prizes, created an original building. Seen from below, it seems almost to move. Seen from above, the two buildings together form the shape of a shooting star.
Olivetti Office Building
Palazzo Uffici, enveloped by nature and filled with daylight, meticulously crafted with refined materials and organized around its magnificent central staircase, a masterpiece in its own right, appears less like a remarkable work of architecture than like a verb relentlessly conjugated in the future tense.
Borgo Olivetti Social Housing
There is much to learn from Olivetti architecture by exploring its purpose, styles, and materials. But those who truly listen to buildings like this one may hear them whisper something even more meaningful: “There has been, there is, and there always will be a possible balance between work and life, between the city and nature, between utility and beauty.”