Social housing Ceccano

Ceccano - Frosinone, Italia

TITLE

Intervento di ERP per la costruzione di 20 alloggi in zona PEEP “Vigne vecchie”

CLIENT

Comune di Ceccano

TYPE OF INTERVENTION

New Building

SURFACE

1.456,66 mq

STATE

Built

Social housing Ceccano

Ceccano - Frosinone, Italia

TITLE

Intervento di ERP per la costruzione di 20 alloggi in zona PEEP “Vigne vecchie”

CLIENT

Comune di Ceccano

TYPE OF INTERVENTION

New Building

SURFACE

1.456,66 mq

STATE

Built

The attention to design in the public housing complex of Ceccano, in the province of Frosinone, is attested by the link and spatial morphology between building types and living spaces. The aim is to design a type of structure aimed at architecturally defining its living space. The search for typological innovation and its organisational structure have determined the choices of the project proposal aimed at a qualitative re-elaboration of the housing space. The decision to divide the complex into three blocks makes it possible to get visual glimpses of the landscape and to break up the linearity of the complex.

Where sustainable living means to live feelingly in the space of nature and sociality

The three blocks are connected to each other only from the first floor by a path-balcony with a green wall that separates the apartments from one another. The duplex apartments have a dark coating that outlines the complex's contour against the sky. Such choices have prompted the use of outdoor spaces such as loggias and balconies, the introduction of linking paths between duplex and simplex housing, as well as a rooftop walkway. The new building, which follows the proportions indicated in the area plan, was conceived to be suitably integrated into its environmental context. To this end, some design choices were reinforced, such as large open spaces and coating materials that in some areas determine an intense character of innovation and fruitful, visual and perceptual experimentation. On the ground floor the division into blocks also makes possible a direct connection from the road to the green space in front, thus constituting an accessible and permeable system.

The parking lots, the technical rooms for the systems and the common entrance area for the three blocks are on the ground floor, separated by green areas and reconnected from the first floor to the roofs via a gallery that becomes the access path to the three floors of apartments that all have large balconies both towards the internal gardens and towards the main road that leads to the square.

The sustainable project is configured as a proactive apparatus with respect to some innovations that have profoundly affected the contemporary way of life. Hence the need to establish a theory of the project capable of demonstrating how it is possible to combine processes of production/use/consumption and appreciation from a social point of view.

It is a question of attributing effectiveness to the bioclimatic and ecological components of the construction of buildings, where the transfer of notions and concepts of a particular discipline must not operate in a mechanical manner, but in terms of a re-elaboration and meaning in an architectural sense. Attention is aimed at avoiding the intrinsic tendency to autonomously defined codes, while it is necessary to make them agile tools of architectural practice. The project will therefore be appropriately calibrated with respect to simple bioclimatic control criteria:

  • create a building envelope with a high capacity for conserving thermal energy
  • shape and orient the building to optimize solar energy capture in winter
  • shape and orient the building to reduce exposure to summer sunlight
Credits

DESIGN ARCHITECTS Guendalina Salimei – Tstudio

STRUCTURE Eutecne s.r.l.

GEOLOGIST Emanuele Lauretti

STRUCTURE Francesco Ardino, Luca Frappi

MEP A. Bianco

CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISION Federico Frappi con Luca Polidori e Pierpaolo Natalini

Salimei, G., Social Housing Ceccano. In: “Metamorfosi Quaderni di Architettura” n.4. Lettera Ventidue: Siracusa 2018, pp. 66-67.
Salimei, G., City Landscape. Ilios Editore: Bari 2012, pp 100-103.
Pisani M. (a cura di), Architettura e Paesaggio. Atti del congresso di Genzano. Il Formichiere: Foligno (PG) 2015, pp. 78-79.