antonio saporito architecture + design florence

International Competition

2001 Auchan - L'Arca

A structure for the commerce.

The project proposes an innovative structural form to forms in which the various commercial activities, the services and the characteristic spaces of these places are organized. The carrying structure is constituted by great easels in metal to form of x on which the attics of the first level are suspended. In plant the space is symmetrical with a great central aisle and two side aisles delimited by a band of closing where the deposits and the various services of the commercial center are situated.