The LIFE project faces the urban regeneration issue. Its aim is to recover an important de-industrialised area in Brescia, focusing on the synergistic relationship between recent suburbs, historical centre, and surrounding green areas. The intervention site is at the core of the city’s first industrial expansion, in south-west Brescia, near the old city centre, just outside the green belt that develops across the historic walls, and includes the Castle area. The project by 5+1AA Alfonso Femia, Gianluca Peluffo was based on the dialogue between the compact fabric of the historic settlement and the fragmented part of the expanding city. On the one hand, they focused on the qualitative and figurative balance between the building’s solids and voids and, on the other, they focused on block layout to ensure permeability across the east-western axis and strengthen the direct connection between the new building with the city centre and its close relationship with the walls’ green system. In this sense, the new building was interpreted as some sort of inhabited enclosure. A permeable curtain that can be crossed, which underlines the landscape between the public side facing the city and the more private side facing the park enclosed within. A green heart that integrates into the landscape consisting of the recovered building and adjacent historical fabric through an intricate system of filters, glimpses, and pathways. The building is structured according to a precise tripartition (basement, elevation, and coping) designed to strengthen this extensive network of relations. Its vertical expansion, projections, loggias, terraces, the marked differentiation of the volumes overlooking the park, and the gardens belonging to the apartments on the ground floor all express the most private and personal side of the living space. Horizontal expansion and continuity with the city walls, which enclose the area and a few other existing architectural elements characterised by this drawing, prevail with respect to the exteriors.


Amid these balanced compositional contrasts, the choice and combination of the different covering materials play an essential role. Their colours, texture, and ability to reflect light in different ways, as well as to draw shadows on the intricate volumes of the façades were decisive. In addition to the plaster background, shingles and fibre cement panelling, the texture of the Meranti wood planks, the dynamic ceramic surfaces take centre stage. These surfaces were created using 3D diamond-shaped elements made to measure by Casalgrande Padana as per 5+1AA Alfonso Femia Gianluca Peluffo’s drawing. In the framework of sustainable urban regeneration, LIFE provides for high environmental standards, thanks to state-of-the-art construction techniques, low-energy building materials, and cutting-edge technological systems. Large glazed surfaces, underfloor heating and cooling, controlled mechanical ventilation, and 2.90 m high ceilings allow for high thermal, acoustic, and lighting performance, making every apartment “generators of wellbeing”. The building was developed to achieve the class A energy rating according to Cened (average annual consumption below 22 kWh m2). To achieve this goal, the project integrated the architectural idea, structural aspects, and strategies for a rational use of water and energy resources into the various stages of the building’s lifespan, its technological management, and maintenance cycles.


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