A Maddaloni Project (in the province of Caserta)
2009
This is a project drawn up together with
a group of young Neapolitan students in Caserta, during a workshop in
March 2009.
The project area, at Maddaloni,
on the outskirts of the city, is not characterized by a particularly
distinguished building.
It is flat, with buildings scattered on the territory and without
elements of value.
The landscape, in its broadest sense, the orography of the surrounding
land and, in particular, the almost impending presence of the rear hills,
"Tifatini" mounts, constitutes the strongest image of the context.
This image is sharpened by terracings of calcareous pits.
A further element which characterizes the context, even if not
immediately perceivable, is the presence/immanency of Roman centuriations and
the layout of Via Appia Antica.
The project idea is planned on
these three presences. Through their highlighting it wants to propose a new
urban centrality referring to the historical-natural elements of Maddaloni.
The planning choice was to demolish all the existing buildings,
which were not considered relevant, to propose a new settling system, able to
re-generate the territory as a whole.
Five buildings in
line which cut across one another, interpreting the signed old structures and
contribute to create a new urban landscape. The expansion area, with a land
index of approximately 1,5 cu.m/sq.m, tries to propose a relevant urban
address, an aggregation pole for the residential area of Maddaloni.
The data of the
state of fact and of the project
lot area:
approximately 102.000 sq.m
use:
- residential
- educational,
cultural, social and administrative activities
- park, playground,
sport
Regarding the
residential area: the building of 1.800 sq.m for accommodation with the
dimensions of 45 sq.m (n.40 lodgings), 4.500 sq.m for 75 sq.m accommodation
(n.60 lodgings), 9.000 sq.m for 90 sq.m accommodation (n.100 lodgings), for a
total of 15.300 sq.m net area, on approximately 20.000 sq.m gross area is
envisaged.
The accommodation
has been planned in three different typologies: the 45 sq.m lodgings have an
entrance/living-room/cooking area of
approximately 18 sq.m, an indipendent
double bedroom of 14 sq.m and a bathroom. The 75 sq.m lodgings have an
entrance,living-room, a live-in kitchen,
two bedrooms and two bathrooms. The 90 sq.m lodgings have the same number of
rooms with larger dimensions for the living area.
The building, which
is referable to the orography of the Tifatini mounts from an aesthetic
perceptive point of view, proposes three elements at variable sections on both
the plan and the elevation, with a 12-14
lin.m width and not more than 12-15 lin.m height.
A building
parallelly orientated to the layout of Appia Antica houses public functions:
commercial, directional, educational, cultural, social and administrative activities.
The three rear bodies of the building are occupied by commercial and
accommodation activities on the ground floors and by residential areas on upper
floors.
The forth, shorter,
houses the new building intended for administrative activities of the Town
Council and is recognizable by the presence of a tower in the new humanized
landscape.
Along the street
front, coming from the residential building of San Marco Evangelista, the
building, which is separated from the street by a square, houses mostly public
functions: administrative and social activities. Its extension towards the East
includes other collective functions: educational, cultural, besides the
commercial activities for the use of the whole inhabited area of Maddaloni.
Facing this last
body of the building, a car park of
approximately 7.000 sq.m with the
capacity of guaranteeing the standards required for both pertaining and of connection car
parks. This is covered by a park whose orography reproduces that of the facing
hills.
The external areas are
geometrically designed on the grid of the cardo-decumanus system; from flagged
it gradually thins out becoming natural park land whose still hilly orography,
hides a sports ground realized in the south-eastern area.
A system of both free and geometrical
pathways completes the construction of an open space, which is enriched by tree
planting with a large quantity of arboreal essences.
Project for Maddaloni
2009
planners
Maurizio Bradaschia (tutor) with Augusto Bosco,
Bartolomeo Dungino, Federica Pappalardo, Francesco Maria Gabriele Vozza,
Giuseppe Cutillo, Vito Maria Benito Vozza (students)