Adjudicated the best Italian project by the Milan Triennale, the building for the Tor Vergata laboratories in Rome is situated in an area bordering between the city and the countryside, amid a series of isolated rural dwellings that have been transformed into departments and research laboratories for the hydrobiological centre of the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
The scheme by the practice IaN+ (architects Carmelo Baglivo and Luca Galofaro and engineer Stefania Manna) has deformed the regular lines of an existing parallelepiped by adding a projecting conference room on the top floor and changing the angle of the roof, which runs from low to high rather than from high to low as would be expected.
The external surfaces, finished with a rough brick-coloured render, allow the building to blend in with the surrounding constructions. E.S.
