Verona Forum

Verona, Italy

Photo © Giovanni Cappelletti

Photo © Marco Covi

Photo © Giovanni Cappelletti

Photo © Marco Covi

Photo © Giovanni Cappelletti

Photo © Marco Covi

Photo © Marco Martello

Photo © Mario Bellini Archive

Architects: Mario Bellini Architects

Year: 2011
Client: Veroa Forum Spa - Villafranca of Verona
Team: Mario Bellini with Giovanni Cappelletti and Carlo Malnati, Collaborators: Giovanni Pigni, Egle De Luca, Alessandro Zufferli, Dario Varetto, Andrea Volpato
General Contractor: Costruire s.r.l, Verona
Facades: Tosoni – Facciate Continue, Villafranca di Verona
Mechanical and electrical services: Manens Intertecnica s.r.l., Verona
Acoustic engineering: Manens Intertecnica s.r.l., Verona
Steel Costruction: Cordioli & c, Valeggio di Verona
Electronic Systems: Far Systems, Rovereto
Local Architect: JTS Engineering s.r.l., Villafranca di Verona
Structure: Studio Ingegneria Pivetta, Verona

A complex made up of two buildings 45 metres high with a base of three floors above ground that connect the buildings and render the project uniform, for use as a hotel, office, wellness centre, services.
The “low” buildings define the relationship with the cityscape by characterising the street layout at a scale of perception closer to man; instead the “freely” articulated “high” buildings relate to the city skyline.
The contrast between the rigorous simplicity of the low structures and the strong articulation of the “towers” is the compositional theme that recalls a vision of composition that is quasi-“futurist”.
It is Boccioni’s “The City Rises” with a calibrated relationship between the glass, the opaque portions, and the free markings on the façades that fascinate Bellini this time.