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Re-use former Sporting Club, Rome 2000
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Re-use former Sporting Club, Rome 2000
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The project for the former
Sporting Club aimed to redesign a complex of buildings, built in the 1970s
without authorization and situated in a densely populated area of Rome the Aurelio. Today, these buildings,
originally intended as residences/hotels, can take on a new role. Through the
re-interpretation of the existing buildings, giving it new functions and
significances, it can now be used as a new system of public spaces, a new
services center for the whole district and, since it is near the underground,
for all the city.
The complex, which is the
property of Rome City Council, is a typical example of how, in Italy, the land
was abused in the past. Built in the 1970s using a “subterfuge” which allowed
its volume to be doubled – by means of closing the empty spaces created between
the two levels of the living quarters – it was evacuated and confiscated by the
City Council and, left for a long time unused, it became used as a temporary
dwelling for squatters from outside the EU.
The complex is 11 stories
high, with a regular, uniform structure, divided into two blocks by a central
stairway and lift shafts, with a rectangular base area currently used as a car
park connected to the main part of the building by various passage ways, and
finally, with a series of outside installations, the original sporting complex.
The aim of the project was
to restore the functional, typological and architect aspects of the complex in
relation to its new role in the city.
The proposed intervention
derives from the possibility of creating a more complex system of spaces which
can re-store identity and recognition as an urban center to this neglected and
abandoned place.
For the main body of the
building the intervention consisted of adding a large covering, which not only
gives the building new functions (a series of conference rooms, restaurant and
bar, and roof garden), new life in the in-between spaces which are created, but
also it has the task of creating a new, contemporary image, of solving the
problem of sunlight, and in general of providing a comfortable environment and,
once lit up, of becoming a point of reference for the whole city.
If in the main part the
operation was characterized by additions,
in the side block of the car park area the project was characterized by removal. In fact in order to use the car
park as a square and pathway with relative offices and public spaces it was
necessary to demolish a part of the covering floor of the intermediate span,
thus creating a large empty space. This demolition not only gave more light to
the buildings, but also brought them into a more complex urban system of
pathways that unite the central building with all the rest, and above all with
via Pagano and via Aurelia.
Sporting Club aimed to redesign a complex of buildings, built in the 1970s
without authorization and situated in a densely populated area of Rome the Aurelio. Today, these buildings,
originally intended as residences/hotels, can take on a new role. Through the
re-interpretation of the existing buildings, giving it new functions and
significances, it can now be used as a new system of public spaces, a new
services center for the whole district and, since it is near the underground,
for all the city.
The complex, which is the
property of Rome City Council, is a typical example of how, in Italy, the land
was abused in the past. Built in the 1970s using a “subterfuge” which allowed
its volume to be doubled – by means of closing the empty spaces created between
the two levels of the living quarters – it was evacuated and confiscated by the
City Council and, left for a long time unused, it became used as a temporary
dwelling for squatters from outside the EU.
The complex is 11 stories
high, with a regular, uniform structure, divided into two blocks by a central
stairway and lift shafts, with a rectangular base area currently used as a car
park connected to the main part of the building by various passage ways, and
finally, with a series of outside installations, the original sporting complex.
The aim of the project was
to restore the functional, typological and architect aspects of the complex in
relation to its new role in the city.
The proposed intervention
derives from the possibility of creating a more complex system of spaces which
can re-store identity and recognition as an urban center to this neglected and
abandoned place.
For the main body of the
building the intervention consisted of adding a large covering, which not only
gives the building new functions (a series of conference rooms, restaurant and
bar, and roof garden), new life in the in-between spaces which are created, but
also it has the task of creating a new, contemporary image, of solving the
problem of sunlight, and in general of providing a comfortable environment and,
once lit up, of becoming a point of reference for the whole city.
If in the main part the
operation was characterized by additions,
in the side block of the car park area the project was characterized by removal. In fact in order to use the car
park as a square and pathway with relative offices and public spaces it was
necessary to demolish a part of the covering floor of the intermediate span,
thus creating a large empty space. This demolition not only gave more light to
the buildings, but also brought them into a more complex urban system of
pathways that unite the central building with all the rest, and above all with
via Pagano and via Aurelia.
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