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Via Enrico Forlanini, Firenze, Italy
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SHN. Student Housing Novoli
Via Enrico Forlanini, Firenze, Italy
University hall of residence in Novoli
Florence, Italy, 2007
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Prize
The students’ university housing in the
former Fiat area at Novoli, Florence, was designed to adapt to the constraints
of the brief - the perimeter of the lot, the alignment, the building height - and
to use them as a springboard for original compositional and typological
solutions that have produced a articulated, light-filled interior landscape
inside severe walls. Despite the double-courtyard layout the building is far
from inward-looking and imposes order on the wider context: the passageway
that cuts crosswise through it is seen as a "city gate", a way
through the block and a focus for communal activities, as well as access to the
students' lodgings. The twin themes of "urban silence" and
"constructed mass", borrowed from historical city's fabric but
updated to reflect today's different formal and plastic awareness, are evident
on the solid though not impenetrable exterior facades. The continuous
reinforced concrete base, grey wood shingles and glass-brick fascia are - of
course - silent, evenly-coloured, unbroken surfaces but they are also loaded
with positive vibes and nuancing ready to be transmitted to the interior. It is
here that the building reveals the extent to which the elementary mass visible
from the street is in fact a complex structure whose layout, planimetric
variations and deviations of section generate a lean-looking though
atmospheric interior of raw concrete streaked by form work and in some places
deeply gouged. Understanding the building's functional layout - shops, entrance
and refectory on the ground floor; study rooms and services on the upper levels
facing the principal street and lodgings (for 250 students) in the other three
blocks - explains the layout of the external facades, and indicates how the
kinds of materials used are related to the amount of light that reaches the
interior. The students' bedrooms (two types) are the outcome of painstaking
typological research - the carefully calculated interlocking of reduced
surfaces looks like a modern-day shot at existenzminimum - and successfully
reconcile external balcony access with dual exposure towards the street, behind
the shingle screen, and the internal courtyards with their coloured walls and
quiet gardens.
The halls of residence are
typologically hybrid, with balcony access and dual exposure. The standard
lodging comprises an entrance hall with a large window opening onto the access
balcony, two bedrooms (18 sqm) and two bathrooms; a third bedroom (12 sqm), also with a bathroom, is situated
towards the balcony and 80 cm higher
to prevent passers-by from looking in. A second standard lodging has a communal
area facing the balcony and at the same height, instead of the third bedroom.
Florence, Italy, 2007
Archés
Prize
The students’ university housing in the
former Fiat area at Novoli, Florence, was designed to adapt to the constraints
of the brief - the perimeter of the lot, the alignment, the building height - and
to use them as a springboard for original compositional and typological
solutions that have produced a articulated, light-filled interior landscape
inside severe walls. Despite the double-courtyard layout the building is far
from inward-looking and imposes order on the wider context: the passageway
that cuts crosswise through it is seen as a "city gate", a way
through the block and a focus for communal activities, as well as access to the
students' lodgings. The twin themes of "urban silence" and
"constructed mass", borrowed from historical city's fabric but
updated to reflect today's different formal and plastic awareness, are evident
on the solid though not impenetrable exterior facades. The continuous
reinforced concrete base, grey wood shingles and glass-brick fascia are - of
course - silent, evenly-coloured, unbroken surfaces but they are also loaded
with positive vibes and nuancing ready to be transmitted to the interior. It is
here that the building reveals the extent to which the elementary mass visible
from the street is in fact a complex structure whose layout, planimetric
variations and deviations of section generate a lean-looking though
atmospheric interior of raw concrete streaked by form work and in some places
deeply gouged. Understanding the building's functional layout - shops, entrance
and refectory on the ground floor; study rooms and services on the upper levels
facing the principal street and lodgings (for 250 students) in the other three
blocks - explains the layout of the external facades, and indicates how the
kinds of materials used are related to the amount of light that reaches the
interior. The students' bedrooms (two types) are the outcome of painstaking
typological research - the carefully calculated interlocking of reduced
surfaces looks like a modern-day shot at existenzminimum - and successfully
reconcile external balcony access with dual exposure towards the street, behind
the shingle screen, and the internal courtyards with their coloured walls and
quiet gardens.
The halls of residence are
typologically hybrid, with balcony access and dual exposure. The standard
lodging comprises an entrance hall with a large window opening onto the access
balcony, two bedrooms (18 sqm) and two bathrooms; a third bedroom (12 sqm), also with a bathroom, is situated
towards the balcony and 80 cm higher
to prevent passers-by from looking in. A second standard lodging has a communal
area facing the balcony and at the same height, instead of the third bedroom.
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