The Roma Convention Center La Nuvola is an international congress facility, it was designed by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas for Eur SpA.
One of the main features is its great flexibility, the ability to host events with very different characteristics, it can have a total capacity of over 8.000 seats, always maintaining an eco-compatible approach and technologically advanced solutions.
The built surface of the RCC La Nuvola is 58.500 square meters and is divided into 3 large areas: the “Teca”, the “Nuvola” and the “Lama”.
La Teca: The Teca is the main “box” of the building, a completely transparent parallelepiped made of steel and with a double glass facade.
La Nuvola: La Nuvola is the internal congress hall. The Cloud is the characterizing element of the project.
It is hooked only in two points, and it hovers in the Teca.
The Nuvola is made of steel covered with a semitransparent sheet of micro-perforated glass fiber which guarantees the “cloud” effect, that is floating, and almost impalpable.
Inside, the auditorium is covered with black wooden panels that guarantee perfect acoustics to the room.
La Lama, on the other hand, is the hotel next to the actual congress center, conceived as a completely independent structure.
With the creation of this work, the new congress center in Rome has become such a particular entity that it makes art a large, very functional stage. Let us remember that inside there is an auditorium with 1800 seats.
To intrigue a project with such an ethereal name are the technological and constructive characteristics of a structure that seems to promise to be intangible.
It looks like an ascent to the sky, the cloud can be reached via one-piece escalators, which are the longest in Europe.
The Nuvola Fuksas is made up of a steel load-bearing structure that supports the auditorium and a calendered secondary structure which, forming a series of curves, reproduces the soft lines of a cloud.
The calendered beams are covered with translucent glass fiber sheets (no less than 15 thousand square meters) fixed to the beams of the secondary structure.
In the evening with the lights turning on, the Fuksas cloud becomes even more special, in fact the translucent sheet that covers it stands out inside the case and, more than during the day, the cloud effect stands out even more, so much studied by the 'architect.
Source: Architetturaecosostenibile.it, eurspa.it
