The overall intervention consists of EXTRAORDINARY MAINTENANCE OF REDEVELOPMENT, with modest modification of the shape and less volume than the existing, THROUGH CONVERSION PROJECT WITH RE-FUNCTIONALIZATION AND ENERGY AND PLANT ADAPTATION, WITHOUT A CHANGE OF USE AND WITHOUT THE CREATION OF NEW UNITS, WITH A TOTAL MAKEOVER OF THE COVER AND THE CREATION OF NEW Shed, WITHOUT MODIFICATION OF THE SEAT.
The result is a very simple layout based on the open space of the ground floor, also because today is not defined a precise activity. In addition to the main space, complete the lay-out changing rooms and toilets.
APPROACH TO STRUCTURAL AND DISTRIBUTIVE TYPOLOGY
The box structure of the walls of the area is "discharged" from the function of the main structure, entrusted to new structure in metal carpentry, which supports the new roofing and also provides static and seismic safety to the enclosure masonry to which it will be connected.
The structural - distributive flexibility is guaranteed by pilasters in marginal positions and entire spans that leave the interior space free.
ARCHITECTURAL CHOICES
The declared intention of the restoration of the building in the most faithful way possible involves the maintenance of the scores and the materials of the external fronts (cleaned and restored, except for the replacement of fixtures), colors and textures. The new internal structure to the volume will emerge, instead, from the covered, no longer pitched but flat with Shed, from which light will enter and light will come out, denouncing the new use and the total renovation of the interior spaces.
The clinker as a contemporary approach to the classic brick of the previous building, the iron-window of the new high-performance fixtures as a renewed industrial relationship with the past and the momentum of the Shed and the exposed metal structure, denote and highlight a symbiotic relationship between the pre-existing still recognizable in its previous volume and the new different, necessarily and voluntarily, in its modernity updated to the time in which we live.
Status: Built
Location: Bologna, IT
Firm Role: Design & Urban Team; Supervision of Work