Titolo HYBRID

Typology University project

Year 2018

Project site Milan

The research focuses on the possibilities of architectural intervention in the marginal urban edges in Rome: the Roman historical periphery, born with the popular housing and illegal constructions, clashes with the lack of an urban vision for the city. The landscape is hybrid, a landscape of differences, where large natural and agricultural areas are dotted with traces of the past, infrastructures, ruins and archeology, absorbed by the unstoppable expansion of the city.

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The aim of the project is to define an enclosed and protected space, within a scattered and open urban form between the compactness of via Calatafimi and the openess of via Santa Croce. To do so, the boundary becomes concretized into a wall, being the tool that allows to articulate both the urban environment and the Kindergarten space. The relationship between a central object and an outer limit is introduced by the examples of Fortified Churches in Romania, using the wall, with its movement and thickness, to circumscribe a place to live. Like Isola Bella, where the wall is the only and architectonical sign that brutally divides what is water from what is ground, our concrete wall separates the public from a private dimension, the chilhood sphere from a commercial acitvity.

The gestuality in the project solves a dichotomy between public and private, a dense builted urbanity and a permeable open space, a fast mobility and a pedestrian path, a center and its perimeter.

The display is the design object that chatacterizes the Flowershop.

It defines the interior athmosphere and rules the relationship with the street and the clients. The display is interpretated as a Bow Window, a window appeared in XVIII century designed to create a space by projecting beyond the exterior wall building. Here it assumes a precise mission: it becomes the main expositive tool, provided with a shelves structure and a continuos flowerpot. The articulation of the space is simple and the colours are flat, grey linoleum, wood, white plaster. All this helps to enhance the role of life elements combine with the natural light.

Warm Concrete_ Cast in place concrete is the material with which the most different expression can be obtained. In continuity with the project theme, it recalls the tone of the context through pigmentation. We declare the materiality of the structure leaving exposed the

shuttering signs. The colour of concrete will be the dominant colour of the addition to the Arrighetti kindergarten. Between two buildings by Caccia Dominioni and surrounding the kindergarten, the wall becomes the recognizable but calm sign of the new spaces and the flower shop.

Aluminium_ The Arrighetti kindergarten roof structure is an eccentric element different both from the residential context and from the church of Sant’Eustorgio. This object is underlined by the level of the new enclosure wall, covering the view up to the lowest part of the roof level. The same principle is used for the other object, the flower shop. Galvanized sheet metal is the material that combines together these elements, making them recognizable and comparable. Smooth and homogeneous, it reflects the light evenly and the joints become evident casting defined shadow tracts.

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