An abandoned area in the heart of the city, next to the signs of a disorderly growth where tall buildings alternate with small condominiums or villas, an area characterized by little greenery and very congested traffic, a historic center just a stone's throw away to testify everything. other quality.
It was clear and indispensable to design an urban fabric rather than buildings and to transform the unbuilt space into a real garden.
It is the quality of this "void" that dictates the design criteria and defines the building walls that will form its edges.
The building density, while essential to economically justify the intervention, requires a green space project that optically increases the distance between the buildings.
It is the project of the internal garden that suggested shattering the built volume into autonomous parts.
The first two ground floors and the first floor belong completely to the garden, form the border, are built with the same materials, the colors will recall the trunks of the trees.
The second and third floors are at the height of the branches of the trees, immediately, this to indicate the need to already have trees of a certain size (solutions have been adopted that guarantee the growth of tall trees even above the basements intended for parking).
The crowns of the trees, even in this first phase of life of the neighborhood, are a low cloud that barely makes one glimpse the upper floors that almost float above and are consequently the only ones perceptible from the opposite buildings, and moreover this perception will decrease. again with the years, as the trees grow.
Much importance has been given to the diversification of the various floors that allow the recognition of one's accommodation, to a variation of the skyline that changes according to the observation point to create a "broken" sunlight so as to penetrate the garden in a different way in the course of the day and give an articulated perception of the adjacent streets.
For this reason, an optical cone has been identified which guarantees the perception of the hill and in particular of Villa Binetti Zuccareda, as well as the entire edge that overlooks the access roads is modeled according to the surrounding fabric.
On one side a very material front was designed, mainly without windows in chromatic continuity with the adjacent buildings. On the other side, even taking into account the presence of the adjacent eight-storey building, the construction line has moved backwards, creating a small tree-lined square and a succession of arcades that will allow you to walk indoors in the only area where there are shops.