Bologna open city

“Bologna città aperta” it’s a redevelopment project of the former and abandoned military area of Staveco. The area is strictly connected with the city on one side and with the hills on the other side. The major topics of the project regard the importance of granting life to a vast space bordering the city and the valorisation of the public space.

This urban redevelopment project re-defines an old and abandoned military area, whose space is directly linked with the historic city and the adjecent hills. The project takes inspiration from the historic complexity of the city to define a series of public and collective spaces. The student residence is developed around a central courtyard through a series of low volumes and tall buildings that in turn define various interconnected courts. Inside the area, the facades of the buildings define several urban fronts on the streets, but at the same time they find a greater opening towards the central courtyard by means of porticoes loggias and terraces.\r\nThe large portico on the podium is meant on the one hand to function as a filter between the city and the hill, and on the other hand to define the fixed scene of the large green courtyard. It also add further volumes towards the park, distributing them in a line.\r\nThe tower is placed as a counterpoint to the bricks chimney of the area and is meant to recall the historic towers past of Bologna.\r\nThe buildings are fixed to the ground by a brick basement: the perception of their volume though gets lighter as their height develops through the use of white plastered masonry and a series of roofs open to community life