Ex Convento San Benedetto
Ferrara - Italy
TITLE
Restauro e Riqualificazione ex Convento San Benedetto
CLIENT
Provveditorato interregionale per le OO PP per la Lombardia e L’Emilia Romagna
TIPOLOGY
Restoration and reuse
SURFACE
7.075 mq
STATE
Under construction
Enhancement and restoration to bring to light traces of the complex's ancient spatiality
The design choices aim at the preservation of the building in order to free the space from improper additions and realise light structures always with a view to the durability of the materials and their maintainability.
The architectural project aims not only to create a fully efficient headquarters that meets the required functions, but also to bring back to light the traces of the complex’s ancient spatiality, which has been altered several times over the centuries by improper interventions and wartime events, respecting even the most recent additions and transformations that have had the value of historical testimony.
Reuse
The changes introduced are mostly related to the insertion of new vertical connections and the strengthening of the existing ones, combined with the proposal for the construction of an overhead walkway, designed with iron profiles and secondary steel metal structures, which will facilitate the distribution of flows in the meeting rooms located on the second floor.
On the ground floor, in order to meet the need to increase the space for archives, the porticoed area to the south of the cloister of the Cisterna Grande will be closed off by means of a composite system consisting of an internal reinforced concrete slab and an external laser-cut sheet metal slab, which will make it possible to maintain the overall view of the geometry of the porticoes.
The restoration work is inspired by the criteria of minimum intervention and reversibility and is oriented towards favouring the reading of the architecture within its context, avoiding mimesis and false history, preferring instead to reinterpret the antique in form and materials.
In terms of structural intervention, geological, hydrological, hydraulic and archaeological investigations directed the project in the preliminary and final phases, which were followed by surveys and precision measurements that provided all the necessary elements to calibrate the proposals and technical solutions developed in the executive design.
Credits
DESIGN ARCHITECTS Tstudio – Guendalina Salimei
STRUCTURE Studio Croci e Associati
MEP IS Ingegneria e Servizi
SAFETY COORDINATION AND FIRE
PREVENTION IS Ingegneria e Servizi
RESTORATION PROJECT Romagnoli e Batocchioni Associate
MONUMENTAL RESTORATION Arch. Giovanni Bullian
Photography
Render Tstudio
Ex Convento San Benedetto
Ferrara - Italy
TITLE
Restauro e Riqualificazione ex Convento San Benedetto
CLIENT
Provveditorato interregionale per le OO PP per la Lombardia e L’Emilia Romagna
TIPOLOGY
Restoration and reuse
SURFACE
7.075 mq
STATE
Under construction
Enhancement and restoration to bring to light traces of the complex's ancient spatiality
The design choices aim at the preservation of the building in order to free the space from improper additions and realise light structures always with a view to the durability of the materials and their maintainability.
The architectural project aims not only to create a fully efficient headquarters that meets the required functions, but also to bring back to light the traces of the complex’s ancient spatiality, which has been altered several times over the centuries by improper interventions and wartime events, respecting even the most recent additions and transformations that have had the value of historical testimony.
Reuse
The changes introduced are mostly related to the insertion of new vertical connections and the strengthening of the existing ones, combined with the proposal for the construction of an overhead walkway, designed with iron profiles and secondary steel metal structures, which will facilitate the distribution of flows in the meeting rooms located on the second floor.
On the ground floor, in order to meet the need to increase the space for archives, the porticoed area to the south of the cloister of the Cisterna Grande will be closed off by means of a composite system consisting of an internal reinforced concrete slab and an external laser-cut sheet metal slab, which will make it possible to maintain the overall view of the geometry of the porticoes.
The restoration work is inspired by the criteria of minimum intervention and reversibility and is oriented towards favouring the reading of the architecture within its context, avoiding mimesis and false history, preferring instead to reinterpret the antique in form and materials.
In terms of structural intervention, geological, hydrological, hydraulic and archaeological investigations directed the project in the preliminary and final phases, which were followed by surveys and precision measurements that provided all the necessary elements to calibrate the proposals and technical solutions developed in the executive design.
Credits
DESIGN ARCHITECTS Tstudio – Guendalina Salimei
STRUCTURE Studio Croci e Associati
MEP IS Ingegneria e Servizi
SAFETY COORDINATION AND FIRE
PREVENTION IS Ingegneria e Servizi
RESTORATION PROJECT Romagnoli e Batocchioni Associate
MONUMENTAL RESTORATION Arch. Giovanni Bullian
Photography
Render Tstudio
