Create an Innovative and Collaborative Workspace

Architectural firm Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli has unveiled the new headquarters for Itagency, Faba, Maikii, and Exclama in Vascon di Carbonera, a region north of Treviso known for its dense industrial warehouses. This project merges architecture, art, and community to create an innovative and collaborative workspace that also considers its social impact.

The design by Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli revolutionizes the traditional workplace to embrace remote working and digitalization, prioritizing a sustainable balance between work and personal life. The offices are dynamic, flexible, and designed for adaptation, fostering informal, homely spaces. A new anthropocentric venue, full of sharing environments, open-air activity areas and seamless indoor and outdoor spaces.

“Our projects are invitations to innovate and explore. We see each building as a generous space that encourages social interaction and community building,”
— say the leading architects Michel Carlana, Luca Mezzalira, and Curzio Pentimalli.

This development includes a new headquarters for the group and transforms existing offices into additional warehouse space, with an extension northward. This rearrangement and the addition of a new cargo yard make the area more efficient in terms of logistics and flexibility, while also cutting construction costs.

At the heart of the design is its transformative potential. Each architectural detail is crafted with adaptability in mind, ensuring the building can evolve over time. From a structural frame that opens the interior to a roof designed as a communal area, to the building’s four-storey layout that encourages employee interaction.

The ground floor serves as a multipurpose area for meetings, exhibitions, and other events, while the upper floors house adaptable office spaces. Mobile walls and modular elements allow for quick reconfiguration of meeting areas, while glass and fabric devices serve as visual and acoustic dividers, to help redefine the large open spaces. The design includes secluded spots for private calls and quiet work, blending with the open exhibition spaces. A modular desk and shelving system allows for customizable privacy levels, providing alcoves for working, discussing ideas, sitting, and, most importantly, socializing. A neatly arranged mechanical system, hidden behind a modular metal grille, brings industrial contemporary dynamism. The layout’s flexibility supports various work styles and fulfills individual employee needs, while also enabling organizations to adjust to changes in the market or workforce quickly.

A far cry from the typical industrial subdivision, the building offers a unique gathering spot on its rooftop, which doubles as a plaza for relaxation and mingling. This area, enhanced by artist Lorenzo Mason’s work, becomes a platform for expression beyond the usual office boundaries.

Mason’s art, a graphic interpretation of non-verbal communication, turns the space into a lively hub for human interaction, pushing past the daily grind. The intertwining of his artistic vision and Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli’s architecture enriches the space, making it a source of inspiration and humanity, evident in other studio projects like the Music School in Bressanone.

“Our approach integrates architecture, urban planning, engineering, and art, aiming to tailor each design to its environment and embrace change over time,” — the architects assert.

Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli’s philosophy manifests in a building that’s both a functional workspace and a living artwork. This flexible design evolves with its surroundings, recalibrating positive impact and redefining the hybrid office space for community life.

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Project name: New office building
Location: Carbonera (TV) – Italy
Architect: Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli
(Michel Carlana, Luca Mezzalira, Curzio Pentimalli)
Project team: Michel Carlana, Luca Mezzalira, Curzio Pentimalli, Edoardo Cesani
2020: private competition by invitation
2021-2022: project development
2025: completion
GFA: 3,070.00 sqm total surface area (for the office building), 13,255.00 sqm lot area
Counsultants: Statics: Bi.Effe Studio d'Ingegneria, Cavallino-Treporti (VE), Systems: Mountech Srl STP, Montebelluna (TV), Acoustics: Niraconsulting, Bressanone (BZ), Lighting: Stingers Srl, Treviso (TV)
Artistic colloboration: Lorenzo Mason Studio, Venice - Italy
General contractor: Agribeton Spa, Treviso (TV)
General work management: Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli
(Michel Carlana, Luca Mezzalira, Curzio Pentimalli)
Photographer: Marco Cappelletti
Materials: Modular load-bearing structure with a very slender frame made of exposed reinforced concrete treated with several mineral coatings. External metal cladding in corrugated aluminum sheet. Self-supporting modular aluminum glazed façade. False ceilings in modular aluminum metal grid. Smoothed industrial concrete flooring. Stainless steel fall-prevention netting. Pigmented birch plywood works.

About Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli
Michel Carlana (1980), Luca Mezzalira (1982) and Curzio Pentimalli (1982) graduated from the Iuav University of Venice, where they currently carry out collaborative and research activities. Parallel to their teaching activity, they remain immersed in the practice through their participation in international competitions and assignments in the local area.

The studio, founded in 2010, strives to make urban planning and architecture a simple and lasting thing: organic, precise and necessary. Their goal is to build the tradition of an interactive – rather than submissive – relationship with it, considering the project as an opportunity to reinterpret a place.

Among their main works, the "Kulturbaum" project, winner of the international competition for the New Civic Library of Bressanone (Brixen, Italy), and the “Wunderkammer” project, winner of the international competition for the New Music School in Bressanone (Brixen, Italy).

For Electa Mondadori, they curated Forme di Struttura, a monographic volume on the Swiss engineering firm Conzett Bronzini Gartmann AG, published in 2011, and for Park Books they authored “Quirino De Giorgio: An Architect's Legacy”, published in 2019.

In 2011, they were selected by the New Italian Blood Awards as one of the ten most promising under 40 Italian architecture firms and in 2012 they were named Best Under-35 Italian Architecture Firm at the Young Italian Architects Awards. In 2013, they received the City Enterprise Award, and the following year won the Confindustria Territory for Actions Award with their “Sonika” project.

In 2020, the studio won the DAM Architectural Book Award with the editorial project “Quirino De Giorgio: An Architect's Legacy”.

In 2021 they won gold medal at the Best Architects 22 awards, with the project of the New Music School in Bressanone and in 2022 they won gold medal at the Best Architects 23 awards, with the project of the New Civic Library of Bressanone. Also in 2022 they won the Alto Adige Architecture Award and the special mention "Architecture for the community" at the City of Oderzo Architecture Award.

In 2018, the founders were Visiting Professors at the Iuav University of Venice.

In the academic years 2022/2023 and 2023/2024 they received contracts of excellence in architectural composition at the Iuav University of Venice. Since January 2021 Michel Carlana has been editor of Casabella.