Our attention was immediately focused to the blast furnaces: structures located into the north of the area, the oldest one. Through the help of our Chinese colleagues we began to understand the functioning of the single building but also the functioning of this huge machine that is Shougang. Part of the work has been completed with an exhibition on the 21st of June into the Valentino's Castle.

In this book, we explain how our project was born and how it evolved from the first design sketches and ideas, until a level of technological and structural detail. We will begin to describe the project starting from the largest scale, analyzing the relationship that the blast furnace has with the surrounding tissue and in a second step we went down to the definition of a specific architectural character of the building considered through the preparation of surveys and through the creation of some maquette. Following a study related to the structure that we thought we’d put in the blast furnace.