VCS – Unesco Visitor Center Sesto, Italy
Unesco Visitor Center Sexten, Sesto Building, Dolomites Architecture, Architect, Italian Development
VCS – Unesco Visitor Center Sesto
Contemporary South Tyrol Architecture, Northern Italy – design by AllesWirdGut, Architects
7 Dec 2016
VCS – Unesco Visitor Center Sexten
Design: AllesWirdGut
Location: Sesto, Dolomites, South Tyrol, northern Italy
VCS – Unesco Visitor Center Sexten
Setting the dial
Three edgy structures provide the new iconic entrance to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Dolomites.
Fanning out along the southern edge of the square, the three volumes frame the square space and, together with the existing buildings (congress center, skiing school, tourist information, and cable railways), add to the new alpine sports center and also make for a public meeting point which, in the future, will be open to tourists and, even more so, to the people of Sexten/Sesto as a festival and village square.
Each of the building ?blocks? on the square accommodates one type of use and takes on specific functions; together, the group of built related volumes connects the overall layout into a sculptural ensemble.
The monolithic free-standing structures get their clear-cut shapes from the vectors of visual axes, site boundaries, given heights and distances.
The first building over a ground plan that opens like a funnel toward the square houses a café and service rooms. Underneath the central, vertically towering megalith, a covered area is create...
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