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Entwurf • Design Sceg Architetti, IT-Turin
Bauherr • Client Fabrizio Turina, IT-Bagnolo Piemonte
Standort • Location IT-Bagnolo Piemonte
Nutzfläche • Floor space 80 m 2
Fotos • Photos Barbara Corsico Photography
Mehr Infos auf Seite • More info on page 150

SHOW CHEESE FACTORY

IN BAGNOLO PIEMONTE

Stefano Carera and Eirini Giannakopoulou, partners in
the Sceg architectural office, the artist Hilario Isola and
the Elyron graphic design studio collaborated as a cohe-
sive team and expanded a dairy in Bagnolo Piemonte
with a show cheese factory including a cheese shop. In
the process, old cheese-maturing boards were not only
recycled but turned into the dominating design motif.

T he striking Monte Viso – a mountain with a shape visible from afar
– guards the Po Plain to the southwest of Turin. The mountain’s cha-
Ansicht • View racteristic shape was abstractly imitated in the wooden entrance porch
of the new La Fetta show dairy in Bagnolo. The project team which in-
cluded architecture, art and graphic design developed this eye-catching
entrance as well as the concept for the entire new construction. Walking
through the entrance, one finds oneself in the world of cheese. The spa-
tial programme is distributed across two levels. Large window openings
visually connect a sales room on the ground floor with the adjacent sec-
tions, the production room and the fully air-conditioned curing room
where the cheese is stored and tended until it is mature enough to be
consumed. The special feature of La Fetta: One is able to watch the pro-
cess. Large panes of glass behind the sales counter allow a view of the
cheese loaves and, at the same time, excellently put them in the spot-
light. One encounters the scene of the stacked cheese loaves again in
the event room located one floor above. A variety of information regar-
ding cheese making and cheese in general can be read here on semi-cir-
cular, white information boards installed along the wall. To a large ex-
tent, the building clients had given free the designers free reign when it
came to the planning. There was actually only one important specifica-
tion: A large number of the already existing, old cheese-curing boards
were to be integrated in the cheese factory. After their functional use in
the curing room, today the long wooden planks serve as the main de-
sign motif. They are room partitions, stair railings, wall shelves and part
of the sales counter. Old imprints of the cheese shapes were deliberately
preserved on the cleaned wood – they bear witness to the long and in-
tense use of the boards. Contrasting this is shiny stainless-steel as a
work surface and a means of design. The desired aesthetic integration
of the curing boards, however, succeeds so well because it supports a
strong colour concept. Light blue on the floor and strong dark blue on
the walls and the window frames result in a perfect setting: They create
Schnitt • Section elegance and ensure a strong impact for the wooden elements.

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