Compasses

Focus: People Planet Profits at UAEmodern

Caballero-Llonch-Gimenez Rita-Airaudo, Hamonic+Masson and Associés, Guillaume Ramillien Architecture, Zaha Hadid Architects, Westway Architects, Carlo Ratti Associati

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What is sustainable architecture? - Fernando Vegas, Camilla Mileto, Guillermo Guimaraens, Virginia Navalón The London King’s Cross experience - Serena Viola Earthen architecture: sustainability and heritage - Camilla Mileto & Fernando Vegas Syria, the design of a re-foundation - Jacopo Galli

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Urban icon. Rafaela Cultural Centre in the former Central Market - Ana Carolina de Souza Bierrenbach, Federico Calabrese Re-building a new sustainable city starting from HOME, a bâtiment in Paris - Jenine Principe A wooden diamond. The "Christian Marin" Community Centre in Limeil-Brévannes - Daria Verde

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The dune in the desert - Ivan Parati Rifat Chadirji Prize 2018. Celebrating Baghdad Heritage - Tamayouz Excellence Award

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Architecture continuity in Italiana Costruzioni’s Rome headquarters - Giovanna Russo Krauss Minima Materia: an algorithmic pavilion with 3D printing to optimize the use of resources - Ingrid Paoletti A circular restaurant for a circular economy - Valentina Allegra Russo

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Smart=sustainable: the only possible axiom - Ferdinando Polverino De Laureto

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The matriarchal architecture of Fabrizio Carola (1931-2019) - Giulio Pane A humanist projected into the future: Marco Dezzi Bardeschi (1934-2018) between conservation and design - Andrea Pane

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Westway Architects

Architecture continuity in Italiana Costruzioni’s Rome headquarters When Luca Aureggi and Maurizio Condoluci, founders of the Roman firm Westway Architects, took on the design of a new headquarters for Italiana Costruzioni in the Eternal city of Rome, they accepted the challenge of adapting a 20th century detached house to the current needs of a well-known construction company, that not only had to comfortably use the old building, but that also had to be represented by it.

What Westway Architects couldn’t know was that their confrontation with past architecture was heading way more beyond the 20th century up to the 3rd century and in the realms of archaeology.

Indeed, once the excavations for the headquarters began, the archaeological remains of a domus dating back to the 3rd century were discovered within the lot.

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with the local Superintendence in order to create a design that could incorporate the conservation and enhancement of the domus, now a main character of the reception’s design.

From the outside the little villa seems to have undergone few changes since 1902. But this impression is the result of Westway Architects’ work, because, before the works of renovation, the villa was altered by some volumes that were removed by the firm in order to return it to its original features, common to the other villas of the Nomentano neighbourhood, which is still identified with the residential architectures of the first years of the 20th century, which were designed to accommodate the new bourgeois class. Starting point of the design was, in fact, the villa and its context, both necessary

Work Italiana Costruzioni Headquarters Client Italiana Costruzioni SpA Location Rome, Italy Project Year 2014-2016 Architecture and Design Westway Architects, Roma Architect Luca Aureggi and Maurizio Condoluci Project Team Simona Gaffi, Antonella Petitti, Flavia Migliorini, Francesco Danielli Engineering Essegi Ingegneria Landscape Nuova Malegori Additional Functions Main Contractor: Italiana Costruzioni SpA Plant design: Studio associato IMST Progetti Lighting designer: Marco Stignani Archaeological excavations: Soprintendenza Archeologica Belle Arti e Paesaggio del Comune di Roma; ARCHEO Archeologia e tecnologie Archaeological conservation: Mazzoleni Size and total area Lot: 980 m2 Garden: 400 m2 Terraces: 400 m2 Built area: 1.800 m2 Image credits Moreno Maggi [materials&interiors] 125

to the individuation of the typology at the base of the architecture and the urban fabric in which it is collocated. This study has allowed the designers to individuate the original features of the house and to select which volumes had to be eliminated in order to return to the original one. They therefore liberated the basement from the volumes that had concealed it, gaining the space needed to the creation of two accesses, a pedestrian one and a vehicular one, to the new ground level, which they dedicated to the reception. The new volumes, one in the front and one in the back, were built with respect to the old building, adjacent to the basement and with many skylights and glass walls that clearly mark the distinction between the new and the old architecture, never obscuring the latter.

A delicate work of building reinforcement and conservation was carried on the outside 20th century architecture, while the inside of the villa was completely changed, with the demolition of all its walls, and redesigned in a contemporary mood, redistributing even the floors, which are currently served by a new independent stairwell. This is part of a new core which, while housing the headquarters’ facilities (toilets, elevator, electric installations and so on), constitutes the load-bearing part of the new architecture. This inner tower is also the only new volume that exceeds the original villa’s height, giving access to a panoramic rooftop.

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materials, that, in contrast to the thick old walls, made glass the protagonist. Because of its transparency glass was a key element both in the enhancement of the historic architecture and archaeological remains – thanks to glass floors and the skylight over the domus – and in the creation of comfortable work spaces lit up by sunlight. A sunlight that, thanks to carefully studied cuts in partitions, comes all the way to inner rooms and corridors.

In addition to glass, wood is another key material: both timeless and contemporary, it characterises part of the floors, of the partitions and of the furniture, the last two sometimes being the same element. Then there is granite, in the common areas, and moquette of the same light shade, used in the more private areas because of its noise-absorbing character.

Lastly there is the silver thread of iron, which, used as a ribbon framing the domus, links together the archaeological remains, the pavements and the front desk.

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the beginning, demanding from its architects, Luca Aureggi and Maurizio Condoluci, their established ability to design truly contemporary architectures in historic setting, making the old and the new dialogue.

It is with no doubt that the designers and their team, made of Simona Gaffi, Antonella Petitti, Flavia Migliorini, Francesco Danielli, not only succeeded in doing so, but turned the challenges brought by the discovery of the domus into a source of inspiration, capable of becoming the core of the design while enhancing through contraposition and dialogue all the other elements and phases. The final architecture manages to be respectful of all its phases in equal measure, refusing to imitate in order to respect and managing to make the headquarters of a construction company fully represented by the stratification of different architectures, becoming a manifesto of a very Italian ability, that of being projected toward the future while having firm roots in a history made of many centuries.

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