Vigliena, Italy
CLIENT : Vigliena Nuova s.r.l.
TYPE OF COMMISSION : direct commission
SURFACE :6.700 m²
TIMETABLE : 2016-2019
PROGRAM : Social housing, daycare, restaurant and commerces
ASSIGNMENT: full commission
ARCHITECTURE TEAM : GFC (Arch. Andrea Guazzieri, Arch. Raul Forsoni, Arch. Valerio Ciotola)
PHASE : Ongoing
The project for 71 apartments in Vigliena is part of an urban regeneration program of the industrial district of San Giovanni in Teduccio, on the eastern suburb of Naples. The site is located in an area of 4000m², currently occupied by the PAV factories, which until 1972 were specialized in the production of traditional Neapolitan concrete slab tiles.
The project puts into question the full transformation of an industrial site into an urban neighbourhood. This implies on one hand, the search for establishing a dialogue with the massive scale of the industrial buildings that now surround the neighbourhood. On the other hand, it seeks the will to create an object able to find a neighbourhood scale through the Recall of characteristic of the site.
The Semiotic of a collective building is inevitably tied to the window and balcony. The former, a symbol of the domestic dimension; the latter, unnatural extension of living toward the outside. Through an abstraction process we have decided to recast and represent the idea of this collective life by introducing rhythm, unity, external spaces, home scale and the link to the climate of the place. These aspects have been re-composed in such a way that each one of them participates in the creation of a unified and emblematic image.
The four facades are entirely covered with perforated aluminium panels. Inside, each of the 71 apartments, regardless of its size, benefits from a large terrace at least one fifth of the useful interior surface. The rhythm in the façade is created by the alternate laying of fixed and sliding panels, which have been worked with recurring motifs of the concrete tiles produced by the existing PAV.