Executive design and construction supervision of Villa Ada

The call for tender for the assignment of the executive design of the PFTE relating to Villa Ada intends to develop the contents of the proposal submitted by the City Council for the Urban Regeneration Call for Proposals issued by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, which was the winner of a PNRR grant. Since this is a complex subject to the constraint of the Superintendence, special care was taken to identify minimally invasive structural and plant solutions, capable of balancing the needs of protection and recognizability of the asset with the inevitable transformations that the building heritage in question has undergone over time, up to the recent abandonment and consequent irreversible material degradation. The latter aspect, in particular, did not allow for the possibility of attributing to the existing masonry structures, mostly collaborative, additional load-bearing functions attributable to the construction of new seismically suitable floors. Therefore, it was agreed to proceed, where possible, preserving part of the existing masonry, completing it, when necessary, with similar material and technological solutions, made mutually cooperating through the use of reinforced plaster. Having thus consolidated the recognizability of the external envelopes and internal partitions, which can be traced back to the archetype of the “room” for the original farmhouse and that of the “hall” for the barn-stable and the villa, in the latter case it became necessary to create an endoskeleton, made with a dry system of profiled steel beams and pillars. This made it possible to make the overall intervention sustainable, making the original factory coexist in a relationship of mutual complementarity with the appropriately updated evocation of the related structural principle, discontinuous and working by points, of which the former comes, by comparison, to constitute the permanence of the continuous interpretations with transformative purposes, preserving by difference the recognizability of the transformative process of the type as a priority value over the simple material protection. Special care was devoted to the consolidation of the foundations, making the original continuous ones mutually integral with the new ones through appropriate mutual stiffening curbs.