IDoor Headquarter / IT
Architect Ivo Pellegri’s design for IDoor’s new headquarters at Castelli Calepio (BG).
The open space offices have expansive glass walls meeting the dual requirement of interaction and privacy for personnel. Madras® glass, fruit of the satin-finishing and chemical etching technologies of the Italian Vitrealspecchi, manages to satisfy both with its Pixel Gradient. This model was developed in close collaboration with Ivo Pellegri and has a perfectly smooth pattern of transparent dots gradually increasing in size to provide different degrees of privacy: from the zero degree of transparency to the nearly 100 degrees of the satin-finish area.
Office partition walls at IDoor, Castelli Calepio (BG). Progressive satin-finish Madras® Pixel Gradient meets the need for interaction between personnel whilst safeguarding the privacy of those sitting at their desks. Photo: Andrea Pancino
Madras® Pixel Gradient is defined by its fashion-resistant sobriety, unalterable over time thanks to the quality of its processing. Photo: Andrea Pancino
The walls in IDoor’s offices are made of Madras® Pixel Gradient satin-finish glass, which meets the need for interaction between personnel whilst respecting the privacy of those sitting at their desks. Photo: Andrea Pancino
On the design front, lastly, the quality that’s shared by Pixel Gradient and Pixel and which at the same time sets them aside from other products is that in terms of stylistic tendencies they are basic, “eternal” glass models unaffected by the aesthetic oscillations of fashion. And it is precisely this variable – time – that needs to be considered in architecture and design projects, where time frames are very different from those of art projects. The special chemical processing techniques employed in producing Pixel Gradient and Pixel make them long lasting and easy to maintain, which along with their unique design renders their industrial character even more robust.
