Roma, IT
The task of the project is the realization of an attractive building for the citizens and open, also visually, to the city; in fact, visibility and transparency characterize this project.
The project represents and exalts the youthful atmosphere that pervades it. It takes into account their world, favoring the formation of a stimulating environment.
The project Idea is a parallelepiped partly solid and partly transparent that, setting back from the main road, generates a pleasant square. This place, facing the new building, is a quiet and welcoming area. It is designed with green and trees and is equipped with seating.
The volume of the Youth Center wraps a void space that houses a swimming pool and a multipurpose gym for residents.
Therefore, this large central empty space that hosts the swimming pool and the gym becomes the core of the project, in which all Youth Center’s rooms overlook.
To ensure maximum continuity and visual permeability toward the surrounding space and environments, the volume of the Youth Center loses its West side.
In this way, the paving that characterizes the entire block and emphasizes the unitary and public character of the external space also extends into the building up to inside the swimming pool.
It increases the physical and visual continuity between inside and outside.
The Youth Center activities are concentrated into volumes hanging from the top, keeping the ground floor free. This design choice increases the public surface available of the ground floor for the benefit of users.
The roof garden further extends the surface area of the center, providing a quiet and pleasant place at high altitude, where you can relax or organize events. There is a cafeteria that certainly facilitates its use......continua su: https://www.delisabatini-arch....
Status: Competition Entry
Firm Role: Main architect