{"id":5286,"date":"2015-12-21T13:19:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T12:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hb.devsrvr.net\/en\/storia-edificio\/"},"modified":"2024-12-04T18:42:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T17:42:25","slug":"history-of-the-building","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pirellihangarbicocca.org\/en\/history-of-the-building\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the building"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\tHistory of the building\n\t<\/h1>\n\t<h2>The history of Pirelli\u00a0HangarBicocca is closely linked to that of\u00a0Breda, a company incorporated in\u00a01886\u00a0by Ingegner\u00a0Ernesto Breda, who moved it to the Bicocca district from 1903. Pirelli, Falck and Marelli followed suit with their own companies, thus turning the area into one of the most important industrial centres in Italy.<\/h2>\n\t<p>In the new 200,000m\u00b2 factory, Breda mainly manufactured railway carriages, electric and steam locomotives, boilers, farm machinery and equipment and, during the First World War, aeroplanes, projectiles and other products for the war effort. One of these factory buildings was Pirelli HangarBicocca, which at the time was divided into blocks of different types, origin and size.\u00a0The &#8220;<strong>Shed<\/strong>&#8220;, for example, a typical low bare-brick factory building with double-pitched roof and large skylights, is already quite recognisable in photos dating from the first half of the 1920s. It was here that components for locomotives and farm machinery were manufactured.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web-assets-hangarbicocca.pirelli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Shed_Storia_edificio.jpg\" alt=\"Shed_Storia_edificio\" itemprop=\"image\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web-assets-hangarbicocca.pirelli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Cubo_Storia_edificio.jpg\" alt=\"Cubo_Storia_edificio\" itemprop=\"image\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n<p>In 1955\u00a0Breda Elettromeccanica e Locomotive\u00a0enlarged its premises with the addition of a cubic barrel-vaulted building which is now the <strong>&#8220;Cubo&#8221;<\/strong> exhibition space of Pirelli HangarBicocca. The huge building that joins the Shed and the Cubo, which is today called <strong>&#8220;Navate&#8221;<\/strong>, was constructed between 1963\u00a0and\u00a01965\u00a0for the\u00a0transformers department. It was here that high-powered machines were assembled and tested. The building, which has retained its original dimensions &#8211; 9500 m\u00b2 with a height of about 30 metres &#8211; consists of a &#8220;nave&#8221; and two aisles. Since 2004, one of these has been home to\u00a0<em>The Seven Heavenly Palaces<\/em>\u00a0by the German artist Anselm Kiefer. Storage facilities and sheds were demolished in about 2000 to create the garden where Fausto Melotti&#8217;s\u00a0<em>La Sequenza<\/em>\u00a0has been since 2010.<\/p>\n\t<p>In the early 1980s, Breda was taken over by the\u00a0Ansaldo Group\u00a0and, almost at the same time, the historic industrial areas gradually began to be decommissioned. The Bicocca district then underwent an almost total urban redevelopment. The\u00a0Bicocca Project, which was launched in 1986, led to the creation of university buildings, administration centres and private housing around the Teatro degli Arcimboldi, as well as to the redevelopment of the old Pirelli factory buildings. After a decade of neglect, Pirelli\u00a0HangarBicocca (formerly known as Ansaldo 17) was purchased by Prelios, the former Pirelli RE, which in 2004 decided to turn it into an exhibition space for contemporary art.<\/p>\n<p><em>For the images: Fondazione ISEC (Archivio Storico Breda)<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web-assets-hangarbicocca.pirelli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/storia4-800x1089.jpg\" alt=\"storia4\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1089\" width=\"800\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of the building The history of Pirelli\u00a0HangarBicocca is closely linked to that of\u00a0Breda, a company incorporated in\u00a01886\u00a0by Ingegner\u00a0Ernesto Breda, who moved it to the Bicocca district from 1903. Pirelli, Falck and Marelli followed suit with their own companies, thus turning the area into one of the most important industrial centres in Italy. 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