To vehicle the integration of this new piece of town a mixed-use program is proposed.
As we need a minimum human density to make the place alive, on one hand we will provide a reasonable extension of housing. Social housing and other residential types, like elderly and students’ residence, and temporary residence for immigrants, will give us the opportunity to re-urbanize the site. The discussion on residential typologies, both referring the cluster and the housing unity, is one of the important issues of the course.
If residential use is not intermingled with other human activities, life will not take place in a proper way. The program proposes to work with both labour and leisure activities. To be able to carry out these activities will not only improve the living quality of the neighbours, it should also become an attraction pole for people from other areas.
So the requirements include a neighbourhood center with rooms for all kind of undertakings, assembly and multipurpose hall, a library, an exhibition area, specific areas for children and for elderly, a mensa or subsidized restaurant.
Also the possibility to work in an open and shared way is taken in consideration. The project will provide the space to make possible co-working in a so-called fab-lab. The building will incorporate offices of several sizes, meeting rooms, study rooms, workshops, labs, open working areas, exhibition rooms, storage, common services.
A small educational equipment, a kindergarten, will host the children of the neighbours and of the fab-lab users.
If the previous facilities are public services, the project shall also take in account the private facilities: they also contribute to the healthiness of town. The current small scale commercial services selling by retail, well mixed with housing, become another “life enhancer”.
All these activities will only be successful if they extend to the contiguous public space and are easily reachable by public and private transport; for the last parking lots will be provided.
But the project will also deal with an “overall” public space, thought as a garden or park. It can include minimal installations for open air sports, and it will incorporate an area of urban orchards.
At least one third of the total surface of the site is expected to be “green”.
Referring the existing buildings in the plot -that nowadays have mainly residential, administrative and storage caracter- we should take in consideration to keep and integrate some of them. As a suggestion, two or more of them should be recycled and adapted to the new requirements.
FUNCTIONAL PROGRAM
ATU –Ambiti di Transformazione Urbana- CASERMA MONTELLO
Block surface: Total 71.683 m2
Min. Open Space and Parks ≥ 30% ≥ 21.505 m2
Min. Public Space and Facilities ≥ 50% ≥ 35.842 m2
Max. Built Surface (Densification rate 2,09) ≤ 150.000 m2
Based on these indicative figures the proposal will count with a minimum of:
A OPEN SPACE 24.000 m2
20.000 Park with recreational areas (eventual open air sport area)
4.000 Urban orchards
B HOUSING 24.000 m2
16.000 Social Housing
4.000 Temporary residence for immigrants
4.000 Elderly and students residence
C FACILITIES, SERVICES 18.000 m2
6.000 Cultural
6.000 Productive
2.000 Educational
2.000 Commercial (private)
D PUBLIC SPACE 12.000 m2
directly related to buildings 4.000 Parking lots related to buildings
8.000 Internal streets, squares, gardens, etc.
A OPEN SPACE
Park with recreational areas and eventually open air sport areas 20.000 m2
Urban orchards 4.000 m2
B HOUSING
Social Housing 16.000 m2 - 120.000 m2
100 apartments for 3-6 inhabitants 2 bathrooms, kitchen, living room, at least 2 separable rooms
100 apartments for 1-2 inhabitants 1 bathroom, kitchen, living room, 1 separable room
Technical installations
Temporary residence for immigrants 4.000 m2
20 apartments for up to 8 inhabitants 2 bathrooms, living room with kitchen, 3 separate rooms
80 double rooms 1 bathroom for every 2 rooms, 1 kitchen for every 8 rooms
Shared rooms: tv, reading, etc.
Laundry
Storage
Technical installations
Elderly and students residence 4.000 m2 Wheel chair adapted
40 apartments for 2 inhabitants 1 bathroom, living room with kitchen and sleeping area
80 double rooms 1 bathroom for every 2 rooms, 1 kitchen for every 8 rooms
Shared rooms: dining, TV, reading, study spaces, etc.
Gym
Laundry
Bike and wheel chair storage
General storage
Technical installations
C FACILITIES, SERVICES
Cultural:
Neighbourhood Center 4.000 m2
20 activity rooms
2 multipurpose halls
Relax area
Exhibition area
Children area
Mensa and bar
Storage
Technical installations
With contiguous:
Library 2.000 m2
Attendance and administration
Office rooms
Meeting rooms
Book reading area (open shelf)
Magazine and Newspaper area
Media, video, show and music area
Children area
Research area with study rooms
Storage
Technical installations
Productive:
Fab/Lab 8.000 m2
Attendance and administration
Showcase
Exhibition area
Multipurpose hall: experimental theatre, auditorium, conferences
10 Meeting and teaching rooms
Open co-working areas
Co-working office for 100 people
20 Technology laboratories
20 workshops for artists
20 workshops for craftsmen
20 cooking labs
Restaurant and bar area, with supply for elderly residence
Take away service
Local-food market
Bike storage
Storage
Technical installations
Educational:
Kindergarden 2.000 m2
Entrance
Administration: 2 offices
10 classrooms, with bathrooms inside
Multipurpose hall
Interior playground(s)
Exterior playground(s)
Dining room
Teachers dining room
Kitchen
Teachers’ bathroom and dressing room
Storage
Technical installations
Commercial:
Private shops and services 4.000 m2
Preferably spin-offs:
Commercial
Gastronomic
Services
Etc.
D PUBLIC SPACE
Minimum (proportionaly increasing in relation to housing):
Parking lots 4.000 m2
Spread
Internal streets, squares, gardens etc. 8.000 m2
Inside the plot