223/1C RECOVERY OF THE MUNICIPAL AREA OF VIA ISIDORO MEL AND VIA DEGLI ALPINI SAN FIOR (TV) – 2023 – 2nd prize

Group Leader:
arch. Elisabetta Lot
Principals:
arch. Vittorio Pierini, arch. Ivo Boscariol, arch. Andrea Catto, arch. Alessio Grava
Collaborator:
arch. Giulia Manfrin

The tender involves the reconfiguration of a peri-urban area of ​​the municipality of San Fior (TV), on which multiple functions exist. The area, of about 2 hectares, has a children’s playground on the northern side, close to a road and near a car park serving the nearby school. Here is also located the access to the Alpini park, which leads, following it towards the south, to the back of the building used as a “social center”, equipped with a concrete playing field, picnic area and parking lot facing the road. The eastern side is left as a lawn, enclosed by tall trees at the Codolo stream and the Pusolin stream

The project intends to enhance the pre-existing structures, mending and updating the current elements. The social center will be renovated and expanded, with a view to creating a garrison against urban decay. The current building will become exclusively used as a bar/recreation center, operating continuously, possibly through external management under concession. To make it more functional, it is planned to include the existing kitchen area and increase the internal spaces, to accommodate a greater number of seats, making the operation commercially sustainable. A canopy (in continuity with the pre-existing one) will connect the access of the western front to the future extension, a volume characterized by large windows on the long sides to the east and west. The latter will be equipped with fully opening windows, for outdoor activities, for their extension to the garden and the paved area in front, which corresponds to a portion of the existing one. The rectangular internal space, intended for meetings and presentations, is designed for a wide flexibility of use, with a blind wall equipped for projections on the north side and, on the opposite side, to the south-east, equipped with an independent kitchen with a dedicated entrance and, to the south-west, a service area.

On the back, a small and independent building is planned for the meetings of the Alpini San Fior group, equipped with toilets and a kitchen/equipped wall, positioned near the commemorative monument at the entrance to the Park to also act as a garrison of the area, since it is equipped with large windows towards the entrance, which in the evening will define a sort of luminous lantern towards the park. Formally, each of the 3 buildings of the complex will be characterized on the outside by the presence of opalescent panels to emphasize the elements of greater height.

The cycle and pedestrian path completes the connection between via Isidoro Mel and via degli Alpini and the school buildings, and at the same time defines a new urban front of the park system, with seats, trees and earthworks, obtained by moving the children’s play equipment to a safer internal position, at the same time close to the pre-existing picnic areas, the bar and connected to the school area and the natural park

223/2C DESIGN COMPETITION FOR THE REDEVELOPMENT OF THE REST HOME AND THE EX BARRACKS COMPLEX RIVA DI ASIAGO – 2023 – 3rd prize

Group leader:
architect Elisabetta Lot
Principals:
architect Vittorio Pierini, architect Ivo Boscariol, architect Alessio Grava
Collaborator:
architect Giulia Manfrin

The subject of the competition is the reorganization of the external and internal spaces of the buildings that insist on the area of ​​the former Riva barracks, currently characterized by the parade ground used as a parking lot and the presence of a Rest Home with an adjoining multi-clinic space. The founding idea of ​​the external area project is to provide citizens and guests of the rest home with a usable external space. The new green areas will have paths characterized by sinuous shapes developed within areas with irregular geometries, capable of establishing dynamic and stimulating space-sensory relationships for users.

The principles that have been adhered to are those of universal design which, applied to elderly users, include a series of measures aimed at increasing autonomy (through circular paths with walking assistance tools, raised vegetable gardens to be looked after, flower beds), memory stimulation (through solutions aimed at stimulating the visual, olfactory and tactile senses thanks to selected arboreal and floral vegetation), intergenerational exchange (through the complete use of the many functions that insist in the area) and the possibility of having aggregation spaces (seats in the shade or sheltered from the elements, outdoor meeting places).

The design of the garden edges respects the need to control the elderly without however creating physical fences that would impact the general perception of the space (eliminating the sense of enclosure, of closure).

The parking lot will be remodeled and regulated, favoring vehicular parking on the southern side of the lot, while maintaining the previous paving and rainwater recovery, defining dedicated pedestrian paths to safely access the various structures present in the complex.

As regards the architecture, in the former stables, on the southern side, near the entrance to the lot, the new multipurpose meeting room sized for 50 people interrupts the alignment of the fronts in correspondence with the only non-original wall (in concrete), to create a formally recognizable volume; a glass window emphasizes its importance making it visible from the outside, overlooking the former parade ground which can be used as a public space if necessary. The warehouse has been positioned on the eastern side; on the opposite side the multipurpose room, the toilets, the exhibition spaces and finally additional warehouses.

Where the functions are public, the pedestrian area is enlarged, creating an area for cultural and social activities dedicated to the community. The expansion of the entrance to the retirement home is also consistent and is redesigned with the same materials. The volume that expands the second and third levels takes up the pitched roof of the adjacent buildings; on the façade, the glass portion visually connects the square with the back, while the almost completely blind portion will house more “private” functions, such as the rehabilitation gym.