Ferrara Italy
Rehabilitation of the “Il Castello” former factory
MORENO PIVETTI ARCHITECTURE
Rehabilitation of the
“Il Castello”
former factory
The building object of the intervention constitutes the housing and production section of the historic court called “Il Castello”, located where the Alto Ferrarese area fades from the Modenese valleys, between provinces related by family, “frontier land” with precarious balances plumbers.
The project provides the recovery of the mighty barycentric building at the court,
one hundred meters long and resolved in the expansive articulation of eight lateral modules joined by five aerial central arches.
The restoration of the former factory has combined the aspects of strengthening and seismic improvement of the structures with those concerning the critical rereading of the material text, in order to restore the semantics of the construction schedule.
suggested wearing the homeopath’s gloves, recovering it from the outside to its harmonic image and obtaining uses within it that are compatible and non intrusive.
The structural solution refuses to show itself in order to silently harmonize with the architecture.
Respect for environmental values, even the most prosaic, leads the project to develop almost exclusively within the volume, emptying it and reconfiguring it; outside, only a few calibrated “scalpel blows” are allowed, the one necessary to restore the history of the building.
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Inside the perimeter, on the order hand, double and triple height voids have been obtained, with multiple views, without however distorting the share of decks and ‘rediscovered’ windows.
From the balcony-study obtained in the mezzanine, the free spaces are dominated within which the staircase climbs and the living room develops,
from the respective decks, through the existing windows and the reopened arched ones, you have a “long view” of the infinite countryside.
The partial emptying of the internal volumes allows the amplification of the spaces, in depth and in height, giving the sense of a confortable home.
Moreno Pivetti, Architetto
