Architetti PAlermo
Project name: Primek material district
Typology: Commercial
Location: Palermo
Year: 2017 - 2018
Surface: 200 sqm
Client: Private
Primek material district
The Primek Material District is a materials library, hosted within a historic home in the Libertà neighborhood of Palermo. The collection brings together the best products from leading companies across the world in the sector of innovative and high-tech materials for architecture and design. The site has been conceived of as a location to put a range of professional figures in contact with each other: designers, manufacturing companies and clients.
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The concept of the project arose from a careful research into Sicily’s Arab-Norman tradition, which was always fascinated with the perfect fusion of different cultures through the synthesis of oriental geometry and the stereometric exactness of the Western artistic vision.
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Floor plan Primek
Just as would be the case in a museum, in which the different precious objects must have their own perfect place of display, each environment in the material library displays the materials in a way that presents them at their very best. A display system was designed that creates different geometric shapes, following a precise mathematical order. Through a synesthetic design, the project concept uses the same rules to connect music and art, modulating according to different variations.
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The entrance greets the visitor with the project’s three iconic symbols: the luminous letters ‘ZYZ’, i.e. the word ‘flower’ in ancient Punic, which was also the name given to the city of Palermo by its first inhabitants.
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From the entrance the visitor moves through to the reception, characterized by the presence of a piano which introduces the concept of “music-material”.
The space dedicated to Hi-Macs material, which have a very high technical character, was planned with an innovative vision that reinterprets the archetype of mosaic inlays through a technological lens, creating a display wall according to a 3D-geometry in which color takes on a dynamic value and, thanks to a computerized system, changes according to sound frequencies.