Le Bâtiment Descendant L’Escalier
Architect: ELASTICOFarm
Location: Lido di Jesolo (Venice), Italy
Type: Apartment
Year: 2022
Photographs: Iwan Baan
The following description is courtesy of the architects. Le bâtiment descendant l’escalier is the residential and commercial building that ELASTICOFarm just completed, together with bplan, in Lido di Jesolo, a tourist seaside destination close to Venice, Italy. The building emerges with strength and determination amid suburban sameness to affirm the need for renewal and redemption from the banal uniformity of the surrounding constructions. At the same time, it establishes an effective relationship between private and shared spaces and the public realm of the city.
Sited just 150 meters from the beach, the building stands out, formally as well as sizewise.
Its two programs — commercial at street level and residential in the 8 floors above — are separated by a
“ghost” floor that provides an open and partially covered area of approximately 2,000 square meters for amenities. Raised above street noise, it promotes sociability among neighbors and welcomes passersby. This space, which ideally extends the public realm into the building, is characterized by an exuberant structural solution that allows the upper floors to disengage from the urban fabric. A forest of steel columns supports the residential floors which, as if suspended, are arranged in the form of an arc. Conceived as a vineyard that is arranged to enjoy maximum sun exposure, the upper portion of the building accommodates apartments each endowed with large terraces and open views towards the great Venetian lagoon, the Dolomites as a backdrop.
The circulation system for the residences extends the idea that guides the project by offering itself as a device that promotes encounters among the inhabitants. Common and private areas are located on all floors, with balconies that distinguish the northfacing side of the building. An unexpected appearance in which colors and materials play an important role in the perception of the new architectural organism.
ELASTICOFarm, the architecture firm led by Stefano Pujatti, has carried out a series of groundbreaking
projects, inventive and brilliantly expressive, in various contexts: from suburban to vast natural settings, in
Italy and in Canada. Stefano is one of the most talented and lively Italian architects of his generation.
Completed in 2021, Le bâtiment descendant l’escalier is the outcome of research and experimentation.
The quality of this project is measured in its ability to exploit the location and the building type to create
an architecture in which communal space becomes the protagonist of a brilliant experimentation.
Project Details
- Name of the project: Le bâtiment descendant l’escalier
- Location: Lido di Jesolo (Venice), Italy
- Architect: ELASTICOFarm with bplan studio
- Design team: Stefano Pujatti, Alberto Del Maschio, Marco Bottosso, Valeria Brero, Daniele Almondo, Serena Nano, Andrea Rosada, Boris Cibin
- Client: NUMERIA SGR Spa
- Structural: SAICO Ingegneria Srl
- Mechanical: Studio Termotecnico Gabrielli
- Builder: C.E.V. Spa
- Metal Carpentry: GR strutture Srl
- Electrical systems: Cable Impianti, Treviso
- Landscaping: Benetazzo Spazioverde, Favaro Veneto (VE)
- Project Timeline:Schedule design start: April 2015
- Start of construction: September 2018
- End of construction: December 2020
- Completion: March 2021
- Photographs: Iwan Baan
- Website: www.iwan.com
