Blue House in via Monte Navale in Ivrea | Olivetti research and development sector

The new headquarters of Olivetti, a company that is now part of the Tim group in Ivrea which is based in the historic Casa Blu, the Monte Navale 2 / C street study center, created by internationally renowned architects, was inaugurated on 15 November 2019. and just renovated. 80 people work in the research and development sector.

The ribbon cutting of the building, which is part of the UNESCO heritage and which once played a fundamental role in the company's industrial and social policies, occurred during an event that saw the participation of Stefano Sertoli, mayor of Ivrea, Patrizia Paglia, president of Confindustria Canavese, Giovanni Ronca and Ettore Spigno, respectively president and managing director of Olivetti, during which the important interventions of recovery and enhancement of the building were illustrated.

"Returning such a prestigious home to Olivetti – commented Giovanni Ronca, Olivetti president – is a tangible sign of how Tim is, again, looking very forward, with the aim of bringing to light not only the historical value but also the perspective value that this great group has in its DNA. The Blue House is an icon of our Olivetti, a company that lives rooted in a living territory, both aware of the responsibility of their great history of development and innovation and both projected towards the future ".

The history of the Blue House

At the beginning of the 1950s the idea was born to build a specific site for a 'study and experience center', physically separate from the company. The architectural project was by Eduardo Vittoria and the structural one by Pier Achille Caponago del Monte.

In 2001 the building was renovated by architects Ettore Sottsass and Marco Zanini to house the headquarters of the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea.

The renovation project just completed by Tim, the promoters explain, "the objective was the conservative restoration and the extraordinary maintenance of the building, paying particular attention to the need to provide, as much as possible, the maintenance and the reconstruction of the original design "This is an important step for Olivetti and Ivrea, which once again show their willingness to innovate while maintaining a solid tradition".

The new Olivetti

Olivetti, the historic brand of Italian industry and the digital pole of the Tim group, its controlling shareholder, operates on the domestic and international market as a totally renewed and evolving industrial reality. With a wide range of state-of-the-art hardware and software products, it acts as a solution provider offering turnkey solutions that can automate business processes and activities for small and medium-sized businesses, large companies and vertical markets.