The New Congress Center
2022
Padua, Italy
product installed:
Wood ceilings and coverings
Giotto room: modular chessboard microperforated panels with melamine finish, Bruges oak colour alternating with polyester acoustic fibre panels.
Panel dimensions from 80 x 190 up to 240 x 240 cm.
capacity: 1.600 seats
Mantegna room: modular microperforated panels with melamine finish, Bruges oak colour, with anti-seismic kit and special designed structure.
capacity: 1.090 seats
Foyer: modular smooth panels, melamine finish, Bruges oak color, concealed 200 system.
An architectural jewel signed by the "starchitect" Kengo Kuma
The New Padua Convention Center is located in the northern sector of the Padua Fairgrounds. Designed by renowned Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, it can accommodate a total of 3,500 people.
The project represents a concrete example of layered architecture, combining the Japanese technique of "spatial layering", which consists in overlapping elements with different levels of permeability, while maintaining the Padua tradition of intermediate spaces.
The two founding cores of the project, the Amphitheater and the Great Hall, are incorporated in a sequence of spaces that mediate their relationship with the outside. The large windows at the top give the central gallery a unique luminous effect.
Technical office: Eng. Giovanni Di Sciascio
Execdutive project: CBI EUROPE spa
Installing company: CATENA SERVICES srl
Start year of operations: 2021
Net area: 3.000 m2
Total capacity: 3.500 seats
Auxiliary rooms: 5
Capacity of auxiliary rooms: from 16 to 150 seats
Total capacity of auxiliary rooms: 750 seats
The role of CBI EUROPE in the project:
· support the artistic direction and construction supervision in the design phase
· site surveys
· production of materials, structures, ceilings and coverings specific to the project
· delivery planning
· supervision of work and installation
The Congress Center will host two main rooms:
Giotto room / surface 1.050 m2 · height: 16 m
Mantegna room / surface: 800 m2 · height: 6 m
The anti-seismic, acoustic and aesthetic design requests guided the choice of the partition wall of our Sherwood Melamine Covering System.
Project note:
anti-seismic
Structural calculation.
Production of support structures and anti-seismic bracing.
acoustics
Production of special acoustic kits for ceilings and walls in collaboration with Engineering Studio of Di Sciascio.
Micro-perforated 3 mm panels and sound absorption calculations in collaboration with the University of Padua.
fire resitance
class B-s2d0
From the initial idea, to on-site surveys, through the design and planning process, to specific production, execution and assembly and the subsequent CBI EUROPE service alongside the architects and designers.