Mercado di Legazpi

The project was developed within the context of my master’s degree thesis and it explores the topic of architectural redevelopment and its impact on a consolidated urban fabric. The subject of this study is the old market of Legazpi, in Madrid. The former wholesale market, built in the first half of the 20th Century, is a rare example of Madrilenian rationalist architecture and, albeit abandoned, it still maintains a strong relationship with the locals, even today. Most of the work behind the project is composed of an in-depth analysis of the context, the history and the architectural texture of the structure. The intervention provides for the restoration and refunctionalisation of the building with the introduction of new features such as a library, public offices, a kindergarten and an elementary school, spaces for the neighbourhood associations and shops, a big central public square, as well as new accesses and connections with the surrounding buildings so as to mend the weft that used to tie the market to the city’s urban processes.

Credits

Place - Madrid

Relator - Manuela Mattone

Co-Relator - Elena Vigliocco

External Relator - Graziella Trovato

M.A.R.D.I.C.H.I

The project involves an area once occupied first by the headquarters of the M.AR.DI.CHI. artillery and chemical defence warehouse and then by the wool mill Lanificio Fratelli Piacenza, which left behind most of their industrial structures.

The building is in Barriera di Milano, a suburb of Turin where urban redevelopment projects are urgently needed. In view of the creation of the new subway line Metro2 in the vicinities, the project provides for the insertion of a university residence with various adjoining public services within the big sheds. Furthermore, the redevelopment includes the integration of spaces of gathering for the community, given the lack of these in the neighbourhood. Most of the external area, following the land’s reclamation and drainage, is destined to become a public park crossed by a pedestrian walkway that will connect it to the subway station.

Credits

Place - Turin

Professors - Paolo Mellano

Rossella Maspoli

Collaborators - Regina Martinazzi

Maria Grazia Longo