The intervention is of major importance in defining the urban landscape of this expanding part of the city, the objective is to configure the perceptive backdrop of the street, which defines an identifiable place and is a guide for future development.
It is the thoroughfare that assumes the greatest importance, it is on it that we want to determine the spatial, visual and social relations, for the enjoyment of the new activities of public interest that will be activated by the social cooperative.
The flowing axis, Via Maestra, will have a less important role, it is not intended to exclude the overlook, but to generate a hierarchy, so that the front in this case becomes only a representation and signal of the presence of important urban elements and fundamental relations on the minor streets.
The proposed planimetric layout organises the different activities around a courtyard, a fundamental nucleus for the interaction of the different functions that will be activated: management and coordination, training, employment and therapy. The need, which these complementary activities generate, is for a strong integration and relationship between them all, so that the different tasks are perceived, at all levels, as equivalent in the functioning of the cooperative. The "circular" organisation becomes optimal in expressing this demand with the building and favours its affirmation on a relational level.
A two-storey in-line building on Via Bunis forms the main front and defines the new street, and gathers the public functions of the offices and training areas; further back is the workshop building which, due to its therapeutic function, needs more privacy; a low building to the north joins these two parts with common and relational spaces. The central courtyard and all the surroundings are destined for a garden, a green, planted park.
The architectural intentions are realised in the valorisation of human relations generated by the use, frequentation, inhabitation of common and exclusive places; environments for welcoming people, which are animated by the exchange of glances, approaches, conversations and meetings. Exclusive places to guarantee the performance of work tasks in tranquillity and in optimal conditions of environmental comfort, where concentration and confidentiality must be the generators of the design lines, exclusive but not hidden, not secluded, not distant, so that a weak relationship is always possible, even if only of cross-references, of views, of presences. Common places where one passes, one stays, one wants to go to be together, to meet, for a contact that is necessary and founding the very activity of the cooperative; it is a work-relationship that does not only take place between office papers or between operating machines, but is completed in the meeting of people.
The relations, in the project, generate the morphology of the new settlement by attempting to facilitate or to interdict the dynamics of use of the different environments destined for specific activities according to the characteristics of accessibility and interaction of the people present in the centre, disabled users, support staff, associates.
Tying these macro-areas together in such a way that they interact effectively becomes the main objective of the design: the offices will be exclusive and hardly accessible to the uninitiated, but permeable to view, their presence will in any case be denounced as another place of work contiguous to the workshops, even if not physical the relationship between the spaces must be perceived, in essence different work is carried out in different places; obviously permeable to the operators of the different sectors to facilitate the coordination of activities. The day centre is also exclusive, in its own way, to those who work there, operators and users together are the workers in this small industry of simple objects organised in different workshops and in rooms where activities are planned;a parallel unit, not in opposition to, but complementing the previous logistical area, they confront each other, they look at each other, they belong to the same gear; the meeting areas coincide with some particular moments of the day, the entrance to work, the coffee break, lunch, the exit: a hinge room where all workers-users meet, a place for mutual exchange, for rest and refreshment, the cafeteria and the canteen. Everything is concentrated and overlooks a central space treated as a lawn, a small park, a precious garden, introverted to the world, but extremely open to our microcosm, which, as far as possible, must become the ideal continuation of the interior spaces, an open-air hall that everyone can access and aspire to.