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MODERNISM AS A CONTEMPORARY VERNACULAR
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Other Projects by Enrico Paolo Ciani
MODERNISM AS A CONTEMPORARY VERNACULAR
The housing project at Palau (Sardinia) stems from an analysis of the urban situation of this Sardinian town.
After an initial reflection I realized that the project site, i.e. the former Palau railway line on which freight
trains ran to the local port, had become a barrier between the old town and the new residential buildings with
the advent of commercial transportation by road.
The project foresees the construction of nine new residential buildings which can form a new urban tissue and
which link up the two parts of the town today very separated. To my mind this fracture could be remedied by means
of the creation of new social housing linked by a thoroughfare, a tree-lined avenue, along the old railroad. The
rails, I thought, should remain in place as a tangible reminder of Palau’s old commercial activity, and could be
reinserted in the new paving of the avenue.
The houses should moreover possess different characteristics: diversity of measurements between the various
apartments so as to attract various categories of inhabitants, and a multiplicity of building typologies to
interest various family units. In fact in the left-hand section we find five apartments that occupy the entire
floor, whereas two are duplex apartments. In the right-hand building the project foresees the creation of six
triplex apartments of complex structure, differing from floor to floor though without ever losing their high
quality and equal possibilities.
A very important element in the project is the use of loggias, to allow the insertion of the new residential
buildings in a “sensitive” manner in the context. In fact the loggia, present at least once in each apartment,
reverts to and characterizes the style of the “Mediterranean” house and architecture. The use of this
element has been fundamental in the study and in the drawing up of the design of the façade for a respectful
insertion of the new buildings in the urban context of Palau.
After an initial reflection I realized that the project site, i.e. the former Palau railway line on which freight
trains ran to the local port, had become a barrier between the old town and the new residential buildings with
the advent of commercial transportation by road.
The project foresees the construction of nine new residential buildings which can form a new urban tissue and
which link up the two parts of the town today very separated. To my mind this fracture could be remedied by means
of the creation of new social housing linked by a thoroughfare, a tree-lined avenue, along the old railroad. The
rails, I thought, should remain in place as a tangible reminder of Palau’s old commercial activity, and could be
reinserted in the new paving of the avenue.
The houses should moreover possess different characteristics: diversity of measurements between the various
apartments so as to attract various categories of inhabitants, and a multiplicity of building typologies to
interest various family units. In fact in the left-hand section we find five apartments that occupy the entire
floor, whereas two are duplex apartments. In the right-hand building the project foresees the creation of six
triplex apartments of complex structure, differing from floor to floor though without ever losing their high
quality and equal possibilities.
A very important element in the project is the use of loggias, to allow the insertion of the new residential
buildings in a “sensitive” manner in the context. In fact the loggia, present at least once in each apartment,
reverts to and characterizes the style of the “Mediterranean” house and architecture. The use of this
element has been fundamental in the study and in the drawing up of the design of the façade for a respectful
insertion of the new buildings in the urban context of Palau.
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