18_MARIO PITTALIS | Building recover ex-prison “Le Murate”, Florence

Category
Italy

NAME

Designer or design team: Mario Pittalis
The project has been submitted by: Mario Pittalis

Plot area: 13.000 mq
Gross Area: 23.500 mq

Of which
Residential: 48%
Public/communal areas: 25% (public equipments)
Facilities for the public: 25%
Business/trade: 10%
Offices: 17%
Number of residential units: 73 + 12 (collectiv housing)

Typology of users: families, old-aged people, other
Total building costs: 19.515.433,82 €
Building Cost = Total Building Cost / Gross Area: 830,44 €/mq
Floor area ratio = Gross Area / Plot Area: 1,81
Work started on date: Wednesday, 22nd December 2004
Work completion date: Monday, 28th June 2010

OWNERSHIP
Municipality of Florence
Promoter: Municipality of Florence
Allotment rule:  Housing / Appartments / Parking / Public Garden

Reduction cost percentage compared to the market value: public announcement
rent: 90%

LOCATION
Country: Italy
City/town:Florence
Address: via dell’Agnolo, via ghibellina

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Description of the project:

The complex formation of the so-called “delle Murate” dates back to 1424, when suor Apollonia and her sisters moving from bridge piers Rubaconte to a house in Via Ghibelline in the district of Santa Croce. The convent phase continues until the transformation in prison, operated by the architect Domenico Giraldi in the second half of the nineteenth century. The third phase of the life of “delle Murate” begins with the closure of the prison in 1983, and finally the year 2000, the starting date of its recovery.

The recovery of “delle Murate” starts with the unitary project, approved in September 1998, which allocates buildings in different functions: shops, social spaces, public plazas and pedestrian walkways on the ground floor, offices, but most importantly, given the available funding ERP, public residences in all upper floors. A group of municipal technicians worked in parallel with UNESCO and architect Renzo Piano and are coordinated by the architects Mario and Roberto Melosi Pittalis. The group drafted the project which has been implemented in stages, the last of which ended in May 2013.
The overall project is summarized in the general themes that have been defined for brevity “INSPIRATIONS” from which descend the “ordering principles” set out to address the priorities and order of operations.