The decision to enhance the PARK was crucial in identifying the multi-storey volumetric solutions, both to limit the footprint on the ground and to enable the reading "from above" of the park itself. The eastern part instead remains more intimate, there " new houses" of the owners, required only one floor both for functional reasons (accessibility to elderly people) and for limited space requirements
Residence-park in Bologna. Nine independent villas for a new living dimension
The project involved the demolition of some existing buildings and the new construction of buildings for residential use for a total of nine independent villas. The design concept focused on the construction of a residence park, considering the large areas of landscaped and widespread green in which the new structures are integrated
The volumes of the buildings are simple and functional, sometimes of one level and sometimes of two levels in order to generate "cantilevered" volumes; all the villas do not have a basement. The project in architectural terms is absolutely contemporary, not only in the materials and technological choices, but also in the typological choice aimed at ensuring a modern urban lifestyle
The first strong "intention" of the architect can be seen in the horizontal rather than vertical structure of the villas. You can read a sort of powerful minimalism in contrast with the external context that is instead really confusing. The choice of a particular material, corten, corresponds to its use as whole slabs at full height without any compromise
The villas have a homogeneous aesthetics, they could be defined as "equal and different" because from time to time some details differentiate them: the distinctive open L shape of two of them with its convex angle, rather than the bow window and the particular juxtaposition of two of them or small differences in plan
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