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LINKED COURT
FROM HETEROTOPY TO URBAN GATE
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YEAR: 2022
TYPOLOGY: RESIDENTIAL COURT
SITE: BRESCIA
PARTNER: SARA BALETTI
Palimpsest
This area of the city of Brescia is characterized by three monastic complexes, the aim of the project is to make the current barracks into a new urban gate, so as to revitalize the park that develops along the walls.
The project configures two new elements in analogy with the network of monasteries present. Indeed, within the palimpsest of this corner of the historic city, we have taken up the typology that characterizes it, but completely revolutionizing its meaning: from heterotopia to urban gate. These new cloister complexes are therefore developed with a new language, like an open block, in which four residential towers are connected in pairs by walkways on all levels, so as to insert only two stairwells on the whole complex. With different types of apartments, the mixture of users is found in the section, which becomes the strength of this project, in which the mediation spaces, both in the distribution and for various common services, are the tool with which good living is built. In this way the users, who come from different categories, generate urban life at ground level, maintaining the connection that defines the meaning of the courtyard: an elevation palimpsest.
The project located in the city of Brescia configures two new elements in analogy with the pre-existing courtyard typology.
The new courts use a new language open to the context, in contrast to the traditional monastic and introverted use of the cloister
The project configures two new urban spaces, revitalizing the area and the already existing neighboring buildings.
By inserting itself in the project of the park of the walls, the new part of the city becomes a new green heart of the city of Brescia.
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