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MAPEI FOOTBALL CENTER

The functional tradition

                                                 The Mapei Football Center is a new complex of 45000 sqm in
                                                 Sassuolo (Modena, Italy), inaugurated on 10th June 2019. The
                                                 complex includes facilities for the first team, the youth squads and the
                                                 supporting administrative services of Sassuolo FC, Italian 1st division
                                                 team.
                                                 The Center has a public-private mixed use, and hosts in the everyday
                                                 activity around 500 athletes, from the kids to the first division team.
                                                 The functional program is distributed through three main floors: the
                                                 Ground Floor is dedicated to the public functions and the first team,
                                                 the First Floor is entirely dedicated to the youth squads, and at the
                                                 Second Floor to the administrative offices. The volume of the main
              client U.S. Sassuolo Calcio srl    building is so obtained overlapping these three functional and spatial
     location Località Ca’ Marta, Via Regina
                                                 sequences.
               Pacis, 41049 Sassuolo (MO)        The project is thus an innovative and effective response to a specific
         architectural project Onsitestudio      functional program.
                                                 The main idea of the project for the new Sassuolo Training Centre
  architects Giancarlo Floridi, Angelo Lunati
                                                 springs out from the relationship with the agricultural and flat
      design team Cesare Galligani (project      landscape, placing the main building as a large element oriented like
      leader), Paolo Volpetti, Marco Fancelli,
   Nicolò de Paoli, Veronica Lazzaro, Davide     a decumanus in the same direction of both the centuriation and the
   Macchi, Pietro Manazza, Michele Miserotti
                                                 treated fields and now of the sports fields.
     Structural project Milan Ingegneria srl     Besides the main building, the sports complex comprises a tribune
     Team: Ing. Maurizio Milan, Ing. Giovanni
                 Molteni, Ing. Marco Lettieri    containing a substation of services, a building containing an electric
                                                 cabin and other service areas.
                      MEP Deerns Italia spa
Team: Ing. Giovanni Consonni, Ing. Giuseppe      The building, through its forms and the dark grey brick facades,
               Dibari, Ing, Riccardo Diaferia,   aims to be a quiet presence, producing with its own characters
    Ing. Davide Bonetto, Ing. Angelo Pollace
                                                 and materials a sense of suspension of time, trying to convey the
Fire prevention AFC srl, Ing. Antonio Corbo      characteristics of historical architecture to the new landscape and
        Landscape design Studio Giorgetta        reaching the quality of the duration. Its autonomous form convey
                     Architetti Paesaggisti
                                                 a sense of monumentality, a key expression for a building with a
  General Contractor Colombo Costruzioni         public role and also the atmosphere required for the headquarters
                                   schedule      of a football club, in Italy. Great attention was paid to the transitions
                          project 2016-2017      between inside and outside: in the entrance portal, in the portico to
                     construction 2018-2019
                                                 the south-east which is the entrance of the main football team, in the
                       total area 3.500 sqm      section of the building in relation the views and access to the outside
                         costs 12.000.000 €      at different altitudes, in the depth of the walls.

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