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Officine ICO (ICO Workshops)

Luigi Figini and Gino Pollini with Annibale Fiocchi, Goffredo Boschetti, Ottavio Cascio, Roberto Guiducci, Marcello Nizzoli (1933 – 1958).A portion of this building was renovated in the year 2006.

The ICO Workshops, constitute one of the world best-known industrial developments of the XXthcentury; they begin with the Red Brick Factory and proceed with the four subsequent enlargements. Designed and built for subsequent enlargements and super elevations on the way …

Olivetti Office Building

Annibale Fiocchi, Marcello Nizzoli, Gian Antonio Bernasconi (1959 - 1964)

The first studies date back between 1952 and 1955. The project was intended as a response to the company's increasing needs to have a headquarter, at a time of great industrial expansion, with a representative office that would have hosted the company's chairmanship.

The building has three structures, each one of which is angled 120 degrees with respect to the others, joined by a central …

Olivetti study and experiences centre

Eduardo Vittoria (1951 - 1855)

The map of this building shows four asymmetric structures that come off a central body containing a staircase. The façades have an evident chromatic effect thanks to the Klinder blue coating of tiles. The building was extended in 1965 with the project of Ottavio Cascio, and to meet new requirements, also at the end of the last century by the Technical Department of Olivetti. The last intervention was made following the project of …

Social Housing of Borgo Olivetti

Luigi Figini and Gino Pollini (1939-1941).

Located on the longer side of the Nursery´s perimeter, it is the first building conceived as part of a larger national building program began by the Fascist Institute for Social Housing, that in the case of Ivrea, witnessed the active participation of Olivetti.

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Social Service Centre

Luigi Figini and Gino Pollini (1954-1959) with Roberto Guiducci and Paolo Radogna UPECC.

The Social ServiceCentre project is the result of the personal experimentation of Figini and Pollini with organic architectural designs. Albeit still of a rationalist origin. It is clear in the building the use of geometrical shapes such as the hexagon and the triangle. Originally, it was home to the library, the social and welfare services, the Infirmary, the Olivetti Child- …

Thermal plant

Eduardo Vittoria (1955 - 1959)

The building was placed on a podium so to counterbalance the unevenness of the road. It consists of three buildings distributed around a central patio. It supplied electricity to the entire industrial complex. Red Klinker tiles are all along the external walls to the plants floor, while in the upper part of the thermal boiler room, the prevailing color is blue.

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UCCD Olivetti houses

Emilio Aventino Tarpino (1949 - 1968)

Significant examples of the Housing Program promoted by the Company and by the Employee´s Home Consulting Office. These are: Condominio Fiò Bellot (1951), Villa Prelle (1951), Casa Stratta (1951), Casa Maoru ci (1958), Cara Perotti (1958), Villa Gassino (1955 - 1956), Villa Enriques (1944), Villa Rossi (1959 - 1961).

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Villa Capellaro

Marcello Nizzoli and Gian Mario Olivieri (1953 - 1955)

It belongs to the complex of villas intended for the factory managerial staff. It was designed by the architects already involvedwith the construction of works commissioned by the Olivetti company.

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West Residential unit (Talponia)

Renzo Gabetti and AimaroOregliad'Isola with Luciano Re (1968 - 1971)

Originally composed by 82 simplex and duplex residential units and overlooking the hill, this building was intended to host, temporarily, Olivetti´s employees residing in Ivrea. A two-storey building with a semicircular base of about 300mt in length. This building marks the evolution of the city from being an industrial city to one of service to the industry. All of this between the seventies and …