The
site of the competition is placed on the edge of the historic fabric
with important architectural ruins, but it has no direct visual and
functional relationship with the surrounding urban areas.
The
new building design develops along three main urban directions that
acting as an ordering element of the surrounding construction site,
takes up a series of alignments with the existing buildings.
The
project idea was articulated by setting a unique functional building
with the existing RSA, both for the continuity of the services and
for the "public" feature reasons. The building of the
existing RSA then becomes part of a more large-scale development,
giving rise to volumes generated from a single axis that distributes
facilities with different orientation towards the north side.
The
volumetric articulation of the new building pays particular attention
to the bio-climatic aspects: the morphological shape of the
surrounding area, with the mountains on the West side and the cyclic
dominant winds with South-North direction affect strongly the new RSA
building. The design and the orientation of the new building rise
from the necessity to protect the inner courtyard from the afternoon
winds in order to define gardens and private areas open towards the
north direction from which also the scenery views of the Sarca Valley
is emphasized.
The
building is characterized by its strong materiality and plasticity;
its monolithic aspect generates recognizability, domestic appearance
and difference at the same time: the building sets up continuous
relationship between the emptiness of the courtyards and the
elevation system made by several loggias and openings.