ACM GRAPHIC LAB | tIPS ARCHITECTS

An architectonic and graphic procedure is a continuous evolution of tests, drafts and tries.
Everybody knows and "loves" the final result but the design process that made it, belongs to the creative team.
We thought to cover the walls of the ACM GRAPHIC LAB by these attempts , by these pieces of paper, used them like a classical element of the interior design: the wallpaper.
Chromatic combination of the same texture, glued back to back, and sequences of different rooms, created to be populated and walked round, define an hybrid background; a mix between a workspace and an exhibition itinerary.
There are well-defined few rooms, even if they are only divided by transparencies, an example is the decorated glass used to split the waiting room from the meeting room, or by weaves like the polygonal mesh that frames the printing room.
What's left of the Lab is a very busy corridor, a connection between the graphic room and packaging spaces, real core business of this company. We have hanged up some dashboards here to transform a junction in a space able to welcome clients, full of pop energy.

Paolo Capuano, Marco Venturelli
tIPS ARCHITECTS