This planning proposal for the Gasometer of Broletto is part of a more general
reorganization of the areas called Broletto and Broletto 2; it is aimed at
rationalizing the activities of Trieste Trasporti Spa.
This rationalization envisages the parking spaces
global bundling (180 buses) and its interrelated services (washing, refuelling,
radio centre, and so on) in the Broletto
2 area, and, the bundling of all other
offices, the reception and service areas in the Broletto area.
In particular the project is aimed at building a
prestigious management "small
building" inside the former Gasometer. This small building is in a
redesigned context which is directed towards solving the transport
company needs.
The project is aimed at recovering the historical
building in accordance with its architectural characteristics; it envisages the volumetric and original characteristic preservation
of the building through the philological recovery of the architectural choices
and the building casing.
Together with the original plant
restoration the construction of an autonomous internal
architecture (built on micropiles) is envisaged. It is made of steel, glass and
concrete, a non-invasive structure intended to house all the Trieste Trasporti offices and also public and
recreational spaces.
The overall re-design of the external areas is
envisaged. They are designed to be green areas, car parks and service areas.
A hypogean architecture covered by a garden roof (assumed at the intervention
accomplishment but not envisaged in the project financing proposal) is intended
to house spaces for refreshment (staff canteen for the employees of Trieste
Trasporti and AcegasAPS), for recreation and
also available to the citizens.
In such a new spatial organization, the Gasometer
serves as the governing element and as the fulcrum of the system.
As said before, a new building is included inside
the system; it is not tied to the historical building; it is divided into 7
levels (2 of them, the underground and the top floor foreseen as a successive
option), of which 3 are intended for public use (exhibition areas, a conference
hall, a bar and service spaces), 3 for offices, 1 with covered garden-roofing
which also houses a bar/restaurant for use by Trieste Trasporti.
The covering is built on the original roof
framework support. It is partially made of glass
to make light penetration possible until the first level, due to two
circular "architectural" "wells of light" which allow the
lighting of each floor.
The accessibility to the spaces is differentiated
according to the user.
Three main entrance areas are envisaged: for the
Trieste Trasporti employees and managers, for users of that same company
(offices open to the public ) and for the ordinary citizens using the
collective spaces.
From a distributive point of view the following
uses are envisaged:
-at level 0 (partially underground towards via
D'Alviano, assumed and realized successively and, in any case, not foreseen in
the project financing proposal) technical spaces store rooms and archives are
placed;
-at level 1, accessible from inside the Broletto
area, an exhibition area and part of the conference hall, a bar/restaurant, a warehouse, the cloakroom, toilet facilities
and the vertical connection system for offices (fitted with an indipendent
access);
-at level 2, directly accessible
from via D'Alviano, the Trieste Trasporti's offices open to the public
(URP[Public Relations Office], rating bureau, lost property office, records),
and the Trieste Trasporti offices for "Management Control",
"Informatics and Technologies" and "Trading Management";
-at level 4, always Trieste
Trasporti offices intended for "Outsourcing", "Commercial
Management", "Human Resourses Management and Organization",
"Trenovia", a floor lounge, with a
cafeteria;
-at level 5, the offices of the Chief Executive
Officer, General Management, Administrative
Management, General Affairs, the "quality system", a floor lounge
with a cafeteria;
-at level 6, the last
(successively assumed and realized and in any case, not foreseen in the project
financing proposal), it is also covered but with a panorama of the city and the
sea, a green area, a bar/restaurant for use of Trieste Trasporti's guests.
Although the project respects old
buildings, it places itself in a dialectic way with the historical building; it
seeks its own raison d'être and the suitability with the contemporary world in
technological innovation.
The project itself respects the
superordinate rule on the subject of the demolition of the architectural
barriers and sanitary conditions.