Architecture today faces several challenges that directly involve it as an agent of change. Designing for us means not only proposing new spaces with a greater awareness toward communities and the environment, but also protecting and enhancing the existing, in order to ensure architecture can last over the years, as a symbol but also as lived-in, efficient and resilient spaces.
Designing the experience
Designing the experience
Designing the experience
Designing the experience
Designing the experience
Designing the experience
Designing the experience
Designing the experience
Designing the experience
Designing the experience
While big cities become increasingly attractive for innovation and new ways of inhabiting space, medium-sized cities, margins and remote locations are neglected. Such gap can be reduced by cultivating a design culture that is linked with a double thread, on the one hand to the physical and tangible datum of space, and on the other hand to the intangible but great value of the experience that makes them alive, functional, and identity for the community.
Designing the experience is one of the pillars of Politecna Europa’s vision, strengthened by a multidisciplinary perspective on the world of design: from structural, plant engineering and energy aspects to lighting, acoustics, environmental sustainability, indoor and outdoor comfort. Everything contributes to creating places that are meant to last.
A vision that is reflected, for example, in the redevelopment of existing building stock to create new offices and collective spaces. Politecna Europa boasts the winning of numerous competitions concerning the redevelopment and repurposing of former barracks, government buildings, underused or disused collective spaces. Also notable are the numerous winning projects in the international competition “New Schools: Futura” as part of the PNRR, which gave us the chance to rethink the future of educational architecture from existing school buildings in urban and peri-urban contexts.
Design and innovation also combine to define a clear vision on other areas, such as healthcare architecture. Today’s hospital space is increasingly a complex system of actors, needs, and solutions offered not only to promote healing, but also to enhance the care experience extended as much to patients as to the entire hospital community, from medical and health care staff to patients’ families, to the inhabitants surrounding and passing through the area. Not only that: hospital architecture today also offers an extraordinary opportunity to question how to integrate new digital technologies with human knowledge, artificial intelligence with the culture of care, environmental sustainability with social innovation, and the well-being of people and the environment. These are challenges that Politecna Europa embraces with a wide spectrum of knowledge and experience that can provide an open and informed view, applying the integrated design approach to every aspect, tangible and intangible, of the space of care.