16_LABORATORIO DI ARCHITETTURA ARCHITETTI ASSOCIATI REGGIO EMILIA – Social housing “CasaNova” EA8, Bolzano

NAME

Designer or design team: Laboratorio di Architettura Architetti Associati – Reggio Emilia (RE)
Roberta Casarini, Andrea Rinaldi
The project has been submitted by: Roberta Casarini

Plot area: 3.585 mq
Gross Area: above ground 9.638,65 mq – basement area 6.015,50 mq (parkings and cellars)

Of which
Residential: 89,6% (8.631,65 mq)
Public/communal areas: 10,4% (1.007 mq)
Facilities for the public: 0
Business/trade: 0
Offices: 0
Number of residential units: 85

Typology of users: families, old-aged people, foreigners/immigrants
Total building costs: 11.218.159,36 €
Building Cost = Total Building Cost / Gross Area: 1.163,87 €/mq
Floor area ratio = Gross Area / Plot Area: 2,68
Work started on date: Tuesday, 12th May 2009
Work completion date: Monday, 8th August 2011

OWNERSHIP
IPES Istituto per l’Edilizia Sociale provincia autonoma di Bolzano
Promoter: IPES Istituto per l’Edilizia Sociale provincia autonoma di Bolzano
Allotment rule:  Ranking with reference to IPES criteria
Reduction cost percentage compared to the market value:
assignment: 100 % with variable cost according to familiar income

LOCATION
Country: Italy
City/town: Bolzano
Address: via Nicolo Rasmo

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Description of the project:

BACKGROUND / URBAN STRATEGY
The isolated EA8 is one of the “castles” of the neighborhood Casanova in Bolzano. Density, community and energy, are the main points of the urban strategy.

PROGRAM / FUNCTIONS
Eighty-five social housing arranged in three residential blocks and achievable with only five stairwells, and one hundred and thirty underground parking spots, representing the functional program. The rooms are accessible only from the internal courtyard and are divided into eight different types, all with outdoor living spaces: a private garden on the ground floor, large balconies in the middle floors and large terraces for the penthouses, arranged on two levels.

STRATEGY DESIGN
The isolated expresses the character of the castle. Outside is made according to a logic plastic, dominated the compact volume, mass. It is emphasized by the fine and deep openings in double row, from the recesses of the lodges and the lightness of the bow-windows wooden overlooking the magnificent landscape. The inner shell is made instead of the court according to a logic of surface, and consists of a diaphragm made of larch wood lightweight, permeable to the eye, the light, relationships, discreet in ensuring the privacy of the inhabitants.

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
ENERGY> ENVIRONMENTAL NEED> POSSIBILITY’ OF CONSERVATION OF AVAILABLE RESOURCES
Climate House A, rainwater recovery, integration with renewable energy (solar thermal and photovoltaic), an idea with an alternative to the private car, green roofs, materials zero km.
The house as a bank of energy.

ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY
DENSITY> ECONOMIC NEED> POSSIBILITY OF LOW COST HOUSING SAVING TERRITORY
Compact bodies for containment of costs, a density property of 3mq/mq for the saving of the territory, optimization of the surfaces for a dwelling of high quality for all.

SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
COMMUNITY> SOCIAL NEED> POSSIBILITY ‘OF RECONSTRUCTION OF A COMMUNITY’
The diversity of types of accommodation allows the cohabitation of families, young couples, the elderly in the idea of ​​building a community. A lovable place where people live and work, where they grow and children play. These children, now adults transmit the memory to other children. Only the awareness of the value of the environment you live in allows a continuous evolution.