preliminary planning document - Rigenerare Corviale

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PRELIMINARY
PLANNING
DOCUMENT
INTERNATIONAL DESIGN COMPETITION
PROMOTER
REGIONE LAZIO
President
President Nicola Zingaretti
ASSESSORATO INFRASTRUTTURE, POLITICHE ABITATIVE E
AMBIENTE
Councillor Fabio Refrigeri
DIREZIONE GENERALE ASSESSORATO INFRASTRUTTURE,
POLITICHE ABITATIVE E AMBIENTE
Eng. Director Mauro Lasagna
Residential Building Plans and Programs Area
Arch. Manager Antonietta Piscioneri
Residential and Social Building Interventions Area
Manager Mr. Luciano Castaldi
COMMISSIONING BODY
ATER ROMA
Azienda Territoriale per l’Edilizia Residenziale del Comune di Roma
(Territorial Housing Company of the Municipality of Rome)
Special Commissioner
Arch. Daniel Modigliani
General Director
Arch. Claudio Rosi
Manager Servizio Nuovi Interventi
Arch. Pier Giacomo Tamietto
Sole Project Manager
Arch. Oscar Piricò
Coordinator of competition and DPP editing
Arch. Maria Teresa Bruca
Legal Support and Tender editing
Dr. Paola Pellegrino
Administrative Support
Ms. Francesca Caterino
Technical Support and editing of contract drawings
Arch. Augusto Schiavi (coordinator), Arch. Andrea Sdoga,
Eng. Michele Di Lisa, Arch. Camilla Galletti, Mr. Roberto Vinci,
Arch. Erika Maresca - internship “torno subito”
Contracts Office Dr. Massimiliano Gozzi
Ms. Patrizia Primavera
Infrastructures and Networks Office Mr. Vittorio Biasetton
Web Site Support and Update
Mr. Giovanni Cannoni
Press Office
Dr. Alessandro Rosati
SCIENTIFIC CONSULTANCY FOR COMPETITION PROCEDURE
ORDINE DEGLI ARCHITETTI PIANIFICATORI PAESAGGISTI E
CONSERVATORI DI ROMA E PROVINCIA
President
Arch. Livio Sacchi
COMPETITION DEPARTMENT
Manager and Coordinator
Arch. Paola Rossi
Secretary Coordinator
Arch. Federica Del Bufalo
Call for Applications and DPP Support Arch. Vittorio Centioni, Arch. Claudia Fabriani
Analysis, Historical Documentation and Bibliography
Archaeologist Samuele Casarin
Legal Support Lawyer Carlo Tardella
Technical Staff
Arch. Serena De Marsanich, Arch. Francesca Forcella
Press Office
Mr. Fabio Perugia
GRAPHIC DESIGN
IKON ADVERTISING
Technical material graphic processing
T SPOON
Translations
Akroasis S.I.T. Srl
Photography sources
ATER historical photos taken from the personal archives of Arch.i.
Roberto Fantastichini (cover, pages 19 and 28)”
S.A.R.A. Nistri - orthophoto (page 14)
Google - bird’s-eye view (page14)
Andrea Jemolo (page 40)
All the administrative technical documentation made available in order to participate in the
competition has been prepared by the ATER ROMA and is its exclusive property. Therefore, in order
to guarantee adequate protection it is anticipated that, for all the documentation made available to
the applicants, the source will be acknowledged by indicating the name of the author (ATER ROMA)
and every other reference necessary and required by the law.
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PRELIMINARY PLANNING DOCUMENT
RIGENERARE CORVIALE
International Design Competition
SUBJECT OF THE TENDER
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Understand and respect the past, propose the future
Rigenerare Corviale - A challenge for the regeneration of the public city
City, history, thinking and building. A future for Corviale
The competition procedure as qualitative instruments of urban
regeneration
Regeneration, experimentation and participation
OBJECT OF THE COMPETITION: CORVIALE
THE HISTORICAL-SOCIAL CONTEXT: SOCIAL HOUSING BUILDING IN
THE 1970s ROME
THE LOCAL CONTEXT THE ROAD SYSTEM AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT RESIDENTIAL SETTLEMENT
Corpo I Corpo II
Trancia H
Signs
SERVICES Nodi Servizi Corviale Centro
CORVIALE TODAY THEMES OF THE TENDER
MAIN THEMES
A) Regeneration of Corpo I: Access and internal circulation,
permeability of ground floor, new distribution system and new
functions
B) Plan for partecipation of inhabitants during the subsequent
design phases
C) New external routes and connections to existing and planned
public services
CORRELATED THEMES
D) General masterplan
E) Corviale Smart Building
F) Orientation system
G) Integration with artistic interventions
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FINANCIAL PLAN AND COST ESTIMATE
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COMPETITION PRIZES AND CALCULATION OF THE PROFESSIONAL
SERVICES
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SUBJECT OF THE TENDER
RIGENERARE CORVIALE is an international design competition announced
by ATER ROMA - Azienda Territoriale per l’Edilizia Residenziale del Comune di
Roma (Territorial Housing Company of the Municipality of Rome) - sponsored
and financed by Regione Lazio.
The objective is to acquire solutions and proposals which, in a comparison open
to the international world of architecture, are of reference in the definition of
the general guidelines on the subjects of urban regeneration which reopen a
reflection on the public city by putting together the subjects of the physical
and social city.
The competition intends to collect and select design proposals to modify the
system of communal areas of the main structure of the building complex of
Corviale in order to achieve a new and better urban and spatial quality, and
better liveability and safety for the inhabitants, along all the horizontal and
vertical connections.
Therefore, the building’s connection to the ground, which includes the ground
floor and the garage level, must mainly be redesigned by rethinking all the
urban connections. It will be possible to relocate all or part of the cellars and
parking spaces in equal measure. The roof may also be part of the intervention
to optimise its potential for producing energy and becoming a resource also of
spaces and equipment for the common use of the inhabitants and to possibly
locate the structures moved from the ground floor. Work may also be carried
out in all or in part in the garage level to provide better access to the secondary
staircases and create transversal reconnection spaces. The exterior areas
owned by ATER or available to the public (roads or public green spaces) can be
involved in the project within the limits of current regulations.
The project must not involve the flats and subsequent work will be carried out
without moving the assignees.
The resources available for a first phase of work, which must however concern
a first operational phase completed and extended to the entire complex, is 7.2
million euro.
The professional compensation for the assignment of the final project will be
evaluated on this amount.
For all additional interventions anticipated by the project, a maximum estimate
must be indicated for the possible completion.
ATER, in agreement with Regione Lazio, may approve a programme for the
total regeneration of the entire complex it owns, to be carried out over an
appropriate period of time and upon completion of what is anticipated by the
main themes of the competition already financed.
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UNDERSTAND AND RESPECT THE PAST,
PROPOSE THE FUTURE
Arch. Daniel Modigliani
Special Commissioner of ATER ROMA
Corviale, designed in the early Seventies for approximately 8,500 residents,
today houses 1300 families in a single building. It is a small city within the city.
The strategies and methods of intervention to regenerate Corviale therefore
need to have an overall urban and social view. The particular specificities of the
building, that has assumed a symbolic and central role for the entire quadrant,
are also an important bequest with a strong potential on the image of the city.
We have the opportunity to complete a district that is the physical image of
an idea of modern town planning, appreciated by the urban and architectural
culture worldwide. Restoring liveability and safety to the exterior and interior
areas is a civil duty so that an inheritance of urban creativity, architectural
quality and lastly proof of courage and great building commitment do not
deteriorate.
The years that have elapsed since its creation have however changed the
city and its inhabitants, and have changed the economic and social cultural
situation of many of those who today use public residential building.
A regeneration project, even social, that could make the inhabitants, who have
developed a sense of belonging to the places, proud of their district in the eyes
of the city and the world, after a generation of problems.
We are looking for a development project of the complex that has a unitary
vision and which tackles the interventions that are necessary without ignoring
the existing values and without being afraid of the new. We want to make the
complex safe, sound and functional in order to achieve renewed beauty of such
an important part of the contemporary city.
Remember that in the Seventies, after the disbursement of loans for the
creation of “subsidized housing” and after defining the location of the first
interventions, the professionals assigned by the Istituto Autonomo per le Case
Popolari (I.A.C.P.) [Independent Institute for Public Housing] to the building
design were in fact the sponsors of significant urban changes for the overview
of the zoning plans which were prepared in great haste and approved during
the period between the adoption and the approval of the P.R.G. (1962-1965).
The new detailed plans were redesigned using new scales of intervention for
the design of the city, with the goal of making economic and working-class
living an element of morphological conditioning of future urban expansion.
Corviale represents the materialization of research on the habitat that they
wanted to offer as alternative to the lack of any settlement model existing
in the urban sector by also providing within the residential buildings multiple
social, educational and commercial functions, in obvious opposition to the
existing breakdown between residences and the rarefied services present at
the time in the surroundings.
The area involved in the zoning map is approximately 60 hectares on which
there is a single large building, one kilometre long, in which housing for 8,500
residents was planned , five green spaces, three groups of services, composed
of a nursery school, a kindergarten, a group of commercial services and an entire
floor, the so-called free floor, for shops, professional offices, workshops, clinics
and in any case services of public interest; on the ground floor, a large garage
guaranteed one parking place for every residence. Its internal organization was
basically founded on a distribution into five functional, management units, each
with an entrance square, concierge services for sorting and for control and a
large room for meetings and social and after-school activities. In the centre,
a building came out, smaller than the main one, which had the official and
functional purpose of connecting to the pre-existing residential area, which
included a pedestrian street with shops and at the end a shopping centre was
planned which was to represent an open door to the city.
The project-plan was created quickly, and all the residences were assigned.
Unauthorised occupancy of the free floor for residential purposes was also
tolerated. Everything took place without the provision of the services, which
were then completed or filled with operations over the span of three decades.
Without adequate public transportation service and far from the city, the
inhabitants felt deported and abandoned.
The lack of an overall design vision and the chronic lack of resources therefore
always produced partial and uncoordinated interventions. There is always the
risk of continuing in the same way. The reorganisation of the free floor (floors
III, IV and V) originally intended for services with its reconversion to residence,
was an initiative that became necessary due to the social crisis. The current
residents have in fact been living there for more than thirty years and have
established their roots there. We have arrived at the concrete feasibility of the
project, but it is maybe the most obvious example of the lack of strategy. In fact,
the problems of about one hundred families are resolved, but the problems of
the other 1200 are not even faced.
The great utopia of the designers was to hypothesize that the public
administration would be able to radically change its realisation and management
standard for the common use of thousands of individuals assigned to the
subsidized housing.
In the zoning plans, the building problem was interwoven with a complex
legislation: The financing for public residential housing allowed non-residential
space, but the public offices in charge of managing the subsidized housing
did not have adequate expertise or appropriate procedures to manage public
properties to be used for commercial and artisan businesses or private services
also with social purposes.
A small city requires small local services, but these were eliminated without
alternatives. Today the use of the former services floor is irreversibly decided
but the problem of providing the services remains.
The competition is an autonomous action by ATER and therefore the Regione
Lazio, but is coordinated with the other competent and involved Authorities
for the relaunching of an entire urban sector on the Western border of Rome.
From the time of its creation, the Istituto Autonomo per le Case Popolari
[Independent Institute for Public Housing], today ATER, owner and manager
of the complex, has faced the need for a continuous and progressive
intervention in order to face the problems which appeared at once. A “utopia
created” without public social assistance and without common services, which
had a very serious impact on the resident society, which still today must be
definitively solved.
The zoning and architectural quality of Corviale, recognised by world culture,
today requires a new consistent effort to recognize and protect the value of
the project and to intervene, even radically, both on the building and on the
urban context so that it can be regenerated.
The Public Authorities involved have been right from its first years (1982/2984),
in addition to ATER (former IACP today Regional Authority), the Municipality of
Rome (today Roma Capitale) and City Hall. The State intervened starting in
the second half of the ‘90s by cooperating and financing specific programmes
Programma di Recupero Urbano (P.R.U.), Contratto di Quartiere II (CdQII).
Naturally, the world of research and culture also devoted great attention on
Corviale, producing significant events and publications over the past few years.
The residents and their associations, not just those of Corviale but those of the
entire district, have always participated and continue to actively participate in
the fight for the renewal of this part of the city.
The need for a new management model is added to the request for building
renovation and adaptation which will make it possible to take care of what will
be created in agreement and with the contribution of the inhabitants.
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The possibility of recovering emblematic structures such as Corviale thus
sets the stage for an exchange with the international professional world of
architecture on the subject of urban renewal not only from the building point
of view, functional and energetic, but also of reconstruction of the identity of
the places and the communities.
Since Corviale, because of its size, residential density and other unique
characteristics - and, among these, last but not least its shape and design
– constitutes, without a doubt, a remarkable piece of public city, one of the
objectives of the competition, through the synthesis of the subjects of the
physical and social composition of the city, is to achieve innovative proposals
and solutions that can serve as reference in the processes of urban renewal
also of other complexes of Public Residential Building.
The objective of the competition is to use the expressive, morphological and
architectural potential of the residential buildings to the utmost taking into
account the various existing cultural, academic, sports, administrative and
commercial activities. We can anticipate and design useful measures to promote
all the possible connections and interactions both inside and outside the
zoning map, in the knowledge that many non-residential functions anticipated
in the Seventies are no longer current and that today it is indispensable to
provide a new unity to the district and the maximum permeability possible
between the already existing activities and those to be planned coherent with
the expectations of the current residents.
All of this to guarantee sociability and safety to the inhabitants who for years
have been waiting to see measures implemented that would improve their
quality of life, that would eliminate the current conditions of marginalisation
and degradation and which could restore to Corviale the dignity of being one of
the best districts of the city.
In October 2012 and November 2013 two “forums” were held in which all the
representatives of the Institutions participated.
The “Tavolo di Concertazione Istituzionale per la progettazione integrata di
riqualificazione e rigenerazione urbana del quadrante Corviale nel Comune
di Roma Capitale [Institutional Round Table for Integrated Planning of the
Corviale Sector Requalification and Regeneration in the Municipality of Roma
Capitale]” launched by the Ministry for Cultural Assets, Activities and Tourism,
in order to work jointly on an integrated design of urban redevelopment and
restoration wanted to gather sustainable ideas and proposals related to the
architectural and landscape quality and the social and cultural values of the
Quadrante Corviale [Corviale District] to make it a qualified laboratory from the
scientific and cultural point of view, also through international debate, as well
as stimulating and productive in terms of quality and efficiency of the services
offered to the local community.
In this perspective, the drafting of the competition guidelines included the
contributions of the Ministry for Cultural Assets, Activities and Tourism –
General Office for Landscape, Fine Arts, Architecture and Modern Art, “La
Sapienza” University of Rome – Department of Architecture and Design, the
University Mobile – Department of Biosciences and Territory, Roma Capitale
– Department of the Environment, Food and Agriculture and Waste, Roma
Capitale-City Hall XI.
RIGENERARE CORVIALE
A CHALLENGE FOR THE REGENERATION OF THE PUBLIC CITY
Arch. Claudio Rosi
General Director ATER ROMA
Considered by some a “monster” and by others a monument of contemporary
Rome, Corviale is a complex 958 metres long, 200 metres wide, 30 metres high
divided into nine floors all of which totals 750,000 cubic metres of cement over a
buildable area of around 60 hectares; inside, one of the largest parallelepipeds in
the world, there are 1202 flats in which approximately “8,500 neighbours” live.
Designed in 1972 by Mario Fiorentino (coordinator of the design), F. Gorio,
P.M. Lugli, G. Sterbini and M. Valori who were inspired by the residential
megastructures imagined 50 years earlier by Le Corbusier; immense machines
for living, which through their rigid geometry offer an alternative residential
model to the historical city and the spontaneous suburbs. Model which only
became practicable in Italy after the approval of Law 167 of 1962 (Plans for
Public Residential Housing) from which come, among others, the “Vele” of Naples
(1964), the “Biscione” of Genoa (1968) and the “Monte Amiata” in Gallaretese of
Milan. In Rome, during the same period, the districts of Tor Bella Monaca, Tor
Sapienza, Laurentino 38, Vigne Nuove and others were designed and created in
addition to Corviale. These were the years when Rome was welcoming 60,000
new inhabitants per year and where 300,000 people lived in the shanty towns,
under ancient aqueducts, or were pushing towards uncontrolled unauthorized
development that was the scourge of the city for many years.
If we use European parameters to evaluate the liveability of the district, such
as quality of air, parking, green space, level of noise pollution, services we must
consider than Corviale is in one of the top spots: It is well connected, has above
average green space, areas for children, sports areas larger than other districts
in Rome, a multifunctional centre equipped with a library, an education and work
training centre, a business incubator, etc.
One must consider however that the best town planning production of recent
years was directed at scattered residential models; districts in which the intended
uses are cleverly mixed, where public space is recognisable and includes streets,
squares and gardens, where human pressure and forced coexistence are less
aggressive, where the management of the constructed space can be organised
on reduced and more easily controllable operating scales.
Almost thirty years after the creation of Corviale we must, furthermore, record
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the failure of a cultural model based, on one hand, on the “power of the State”
which assumes the obligation of residential assistance without guaranteeing
financial return and which relieves the assignees from any burden, cost and care
of the public thing and, on the other, on a residential policy which, in order to
resolve the problem of the home, concentrates hundreds of personal stories of
social and human suffering in a single building. A settlement the size of Corviale,
under these conditions, is very hard to manage by the public authority.
Already starting in 1983, during the assignment procedure of the homes, 700
apartments were illegally occupied and 150 families camped on the square of
the building. In 1995, more illegal occupancy followed with about 200 persons
of the Peruvian community who were moved thanks to the commitment of the
Institute of Latin American Studies.
Still today, 127 households (more than 400 people) illegally occupy the entire
free floor of the building that was earmarked for shops, offices and commercial
premises often taking power from the centralised system and using tanks for
household gas seriously endangering safety. Today the Contratto di Quartiere
II (CdQII), close to being realised, allows ATER to regularise a situation of
unauthorised use, which has been going on for twenty years, and to create 103
new apartments to be assigned to the occupants who are entitled to them.
Consider that the average rent is about 75 euro/month for a total of
approximately 1,081,000 euro per year. Compared to this, ATER pays for
Corviale an average of 1,450,000 euro per year for ordinary and extraordinary
maintenance and for the payment of the taxes. In other words, even if everyone
paid their rent regularly and if ATER operated efficiently and cost-effectively,
there would be an actual loss of around 370,000 euro per year. This is due to
a systematic set of laws and regulations which influence and determine the
cash flow of this gigantic construction.
This economic-operational scenario of Corviale is just a small part of the
more general financial situation of the Territorial Agency for Residential
Building of Rome.
The ATER ROMA owns and manages 50,000 flats and approximately 3200
non-residential premises and a difficult financial situation against which, in
the last two and a half years, an energetic financial reorganisation action
has been launched through the sale of part of the assets, the recovery of the
prior late payments, greater control on expenses and on contracts that is
yielding good results.
Consider that, in the last year, more than 400 flats were cleared of squatters
returning them to the Municipality for legal assignment and that, during the
same period fully 200 commercial premises were vacated and rented again
based on public rental bids. In addition to providing considerable revenue, this
allows many assignees to return to being legal again who are now regularly
paying and re-establishing a civil relationship between company and user.
We are taking decisive steps towards the reorganisation aware that, for good
government action, it is necessary to face with determination the economic
emergency but also to look to the future by scheduling an activity aimed at the
requalification of the real estate and its enhancement.
The wager of the next few years is in fact to fulfil the corporate mission to create
new residential buildings with criteria of eco-sustainability and to restore the
existing real estate with scheduled maintenance programmes and restoration
processes for a more suitable living space.
Today, in Corviale, two important initiatives are under way:
• Contratto di Quartiere II (CdQII) about to be realised, financed by the
Ministry for Infrastructures and Transport of the Regione Lazio, activated
together with the Municipality of Rome, which anticipates spending 14
million euro of which 10 million to restore the free floor and 4 million for the
restoration of the green space surrounding the building and the recovery of
the multifunctional centre and the academic park;
• Programma di Recupero Urbano (P.R.U.) promoted by the Municipality
of Rome with ATER the objective of which is to restore the relationship
between the building and the city, between Corviale, its urban context and
the surrounding neighbourhoods.
The international competition “Rigenerare Corviale” which we are launching, with
the support of the Regione Lazio, forms part of this framework of interventions
with the objective of achieving solutions and proposals which, from an exchange
open to the international world of architecture, will be of reference in the
definition of the general directions on the subjects of urban restoration which
reopen a reflection on the public city.
Many people have been working, for some time, with this renewed hope and
attention: at ATER, in the municipal offices, in the universities, in the cultural
sites and in the political offices and especially among the many citizens who live
in the neighbourhood and have developed a sense of belonging and a passionate
discussion and determined commitment to save Corviale has started.
CITY, HISTORY, THINKING AND BUILDING.
A FUTURE FOR CORVIALE
Arch. Paola Rossi
Delegated Manager Competition Department Order of P.P.C. Architects of Rome
and Province
We can’t intervene on something already built without knowing its history. The
story of Corvialone, as the most affectionate call it, is long, important, varied and,
especially, is not over yet. On the contrary, with this Architecture Competition,
the Regione Lazio and ATER ROMA want to mark an important moment of
change. They want to acquire ideas of great quality for a “programme for the
total regeneration of the entire complex” to be carried out over time and to
transform Corviale from suburban area to city. We know that the city effect
is something profoundly human and impalpable which does not depend on
the solidity and functionality of the houses or only on a correct relationship
between all the components that make up the inhabited spaces but rather also
on an indefinable amount of imagination and knowledge: that of the designer
who manages to interact with the requirements – we intentionally use the
term “requirements” instead of the word “needs” – of the inhabitants.
Therefore, together with all the maps, drawings and diagrams necessary,
kindly prepared by the Ater offices, in order to enable the best understanding
of the places and draft the project idea, we wanted to make available to
the competitors a very detailed list of articles, books, works, filmography,
webliography and photographic reporting which have covered this project over
the years. But certainly not wanting the designers to take all the time available
to them just to read an interesting but copious and often contradictory
literature, nor did we want to prepare a reasoned summary that emphasized
the most important points of the cultural debate on Corviale, which is still
alive in architectural culture: extracts of favourable and contrary critiques,
brief descriptions of the various elements that compose the complex, various
solutions proposed, analogies with other contemporaneous and similar
interventions such as the Forte Quezzi complex in Genoa and that of Rozzol
Melara in Trieste, which certainly have size in common with Corviale as well
as the urban setting and the operational problems. Lastly, we have selected
quotes and descriptions, also literary, of the Corviale subject, of the image and
the sensations that it induces in visitors and scholars. And, in particular, we
wanted to highlight certain writings of the designer, Mario Fiorentino, drafted
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by him at different times: before drafting the project, during the construction
work of the complex and also after its realisation, to follow the evolution of his
thought.
We hope that this work may be of help to the designers so they can approach
with greater awareness, and an increased sensitivity to the place, its history,
the idea that generated it, it components, even the material ones.
Because we are convinced that only a clear, accurate, reasoned request can
obtain equally valid answers. Every invitation to tender must therefore be clear,
meticulous and univocally interpretable, supported obviously by thorough
and in-depth documentation and must always include studies that lead the
designer to “thinking” and “knowing”. The great gesture, the architectural
expression will therefore be the fruit of artistic ability and also of culture: art
and science together, that is Architecture.
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New Corviale: 38 professionals in action who produced in 7 years 680,900
cubic metres to house 8512 inhabitants, on a total area of 60 hectares with
a density of 140 inhabitants per hectare. Numbers that could have also
produced a completely different complex and image. The culture of the period
and the individual minds of the design group delivered this object, well-loved
or intensely hated by many, to history.
Today we are all, Sponsor, Authority Issuing Tender, Organisers, Consultants
and Designers, contributing to the regeneration of this MONSTRUM, as
it can be defined by using the Latin etymology which evokes something
astounding that creates amazement. In fact, without a doubt Corviale is,
in its overall image, certainly unique and unrepeatable in terms of its town
planning, architectural and social conceptualisation. Due to its exceptional
characteristics, it immediately attracted the attention not only of the world
of architecture but also of a lot of public opinion. Loved, hated, criticised or
defended with swords drawn, still visited today by delegations from all over
the world, it has become at the same time a monument to utopian architecture
in search of the new city and hopeless monster.
The project falls within the search for a new dimension of the habitat, which
presents itself as a radical alternative to the dispersal of the current suburbs, to the
subordinate role in terms of use and image that they have vis-à-vis the urban centre,
the breakdown between residences and services and the social declassification that
characterises them. (from the Report on Corviale by Mario Fiorentino, 1972)
Objectives which in part still need to be reached. This is therefore the first
request which the participants in this Competition must answer. To offer
solutions by rethinking the organisational system and the relationships
between the various functional parts, the whole and the surroundings is one of
the themes that is entrusted to the competing designers. Above all, the redesign
of the system between vertical connections and horizontal distribution and, in
particular, the accessibility, permeability and liveability/safety of the ground
floor to rebuild a new “urban street” where the one original planned is now
been superseded by the events.
Besides this is the destiny of the settlements of men: cities grow, change and
become stratified, adapting to history, the evolution of habits, of societies, of
technologies and, last but not least, of regulations.
And if Corviale is a “linear city”, as its author defined it and as its designers
and supporters have always maintained, the fates of all cities will rightly and
inexorably follow. Transformation, integration and stratification or adaptation?
It will be this Competition that will define its future for the most part.
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In Rome, we have the Palazzaccio, the name the Romans give to the building
originally the seat of the Ministry of Justice of Rome Capital of the Kingdom of
Italy, the Vittoriano, commemorative architecture dedicated to Vittorio Emanuele,
King of Italy, called the Altar of the Fatherland in 1921 when the remains of the
“unknown soldier” from the First World War were buried there, and then there
is Corviale.
Why do we list these three buildings together that are so different in terms
of shape and function? They are three monuments: to the Fatherland, the
Vittoriano, to the Italian Constitution the Palazzaccio, to an idea of city and
community, the Corviale. All three attractive and disturbing together in their
imposing and exaggerated mass.
Demolition was discussed for all three at different times and for different
reasons.
All three are still standing: tourists photograph the Vittoriano incessantly, the
Palazzaccio a little less, the architect-tourists come from all over the world to
see the Corviale and it would be interesting to interview them to find out their
feelings and assessments.
All three have undergone transformations and adjustments: for some years now,
we can go up on panoramic lifts to the last highest roof level of the Vittoriano,
to enjoy yet another stupendous view of ancient and contemporary Rome; the
Palace of Justice, which started to show signs of collapse already during its
construction to the extent that the number of sculptures that were supposed to
decorate it was consistently reduced, was reinforced and is no longer the centre
of the judicial life of the capital; Corviale has undergone several, more or less
peaceful, occupations and today the “rue intérieure” of Le Corbusier memory no
longer exists, now irreversibly transformed into another residential level.
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THE COMPETITION PROCEDURE AS QUALITATIVE
INSTRUMENT OF URBAN REGENERATION
Arch. Oscar Piricò
ATER ROMA Sole Project Manager
The contemporary city, mirror of the accelerated rhythms and the change in
society, is marked by the increasingly faster movements of the individuals that
live in it. Some city sections, in line with these dynamics have been upgraded,
transformed to welcome and satisfy the requirements of the times (former
industrial areas, theme parks, research centres); while on the other hand, the
social periphery, very often, was not affected by these changes.
While being fully inserted in the urban context, the social construction
districts remain outskirts, with poor contextual quality and limited relational
assets, thus establishing themselves in a position of dependence within the
urban areas. Furthermore, certain particular urban configurations and the
deterioration of the environment built can amplify the processes of exclusion
and the emergence of deviant behaviours, behaviours which in turn end up
making the condition of the public spaces and the local infrastructures worse.
In these districts, multiple weak points overlap: the vulnerability of the
social groups that live there, the low quality and deterioration of the types
of residences and the public spaces, insufficient resources and services, poor
accessibility to urban opportunities, the existence of conflict between different
groups.
The analysis of the social building has highlighted the evolution of the
residential problem. The verification that the districts are not unchanging
entities requires the use of instruments that make it possible to read the social
and local morphological change (scientific research and data updating). In fact,
the problem of the residential question is increasingly obvious also because
of the diversified range of needs, new requirements and living expectations of
the contemporary population.
“Rigenerare Corviale” international design competition wants to intercept
new ways of rethinking the suburbs keeping in mind the ongoing social
transformations.
The Tender identifies a series of subjects that the applicants must tackle
innovatively, in order to propose ideas that can be progressively implemented,
in order to guarantee a continuous improvement of the living conditions.
The “International single grade design competition” has been selected for the
competition procedure, pursuant to Chapter IV, Section III, Art. 99 and following
of Legislative Decree 163/2006 through anonymous open procedure, in order
to acquire a project with a preliminary in-depth level, consistent with the design
themes and instructions provided in the Preliminary Planning Document and
in the Tender.
The future financial sustainability of the interventions was taken into
consideration during the drafting of the Tender in an attempt to identify
objectives that can be implemented individually and which can be included in
a three-year plan.
The Commissioning Body of the Tender, in order to allow the designers to
devote complete attention to the design phase, is making available to the
participants complete documentation and anticipates, in accordance with what
is established in the timeline chart, an on-site inspection and the willingness
to answer FAQs to clarify the more complicated questions.
The design proposals will be evaluated by a jury of seven, experts in the subjects
of the competition, professionals of national and international renown, which
will ensure quality in the selection of the projects.
The completion of the procedure includes the possibility, by the Authorities
sponsoring and issuing the tender, of assigning the responsibility for the
definitive design, aimed at the future realisation of the project. For this reason,
one of the components of the evaluation, besides the design quality, is the
cost-effectiveness of the proposal.
To substantiate the actual feasibility of the project, additional attention has
been given to the future realisation in functional and independent sections, in
order to harmonize the intervention with the possible loans.
The competition focuses on the restoration of the entire quadrant, through
innovative proposals and solutions which will be invested in the building
and its context. It is because of this that the preparation of a masterplan is
requested which, once implemented, can serve as the impetus for starting
a series of connections, physical and social, which will involve the entire
area. The designers must, in fact, take into account the problems related to
the accessibility and connections between the different parts, and therefore
propose new conditions for the open spaces, paved and green, creating a
change focused on the needs of real people.
Thanks to the introduction of the participatory process, the Authority intends
to involve the residents in all the phases of the design and realisation, in order
to reinforce the sense of belonging to the place and its value.
This process of transformation of the public residential building property will
give new vitality to the Corviale complex by acting, among other things, on the
cycle of life of the building and extending its duration through strategies for
streamlining energy.
“Rigenerare Corviale” therefore means rehabilitating a significant part of
the contemporary city through the implementation of architectural, social,
economic and environmental interventions. The design competition becomes
the tool through which it will be possible to trigger these processes of
improvement.
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REGENERATION, EXPERIMENTATION AND PARTICIPATION
Arch. Maria Teresa Bruca
Coordinator of the ATER ROMA competition activities
Corviale is one of the most important and symbolic districts of public
residential building in Italy and, of the ATER properties, the best known, the
most paradigmatic, the most studied and the most discussed.
Corviale was and continues to be one of the most significant residential
experiments: A project of “radical architecture”, a great “machine” with a
claim of self-sufficiency, inhabited by oblivious experimenters of the modern
style and designed to develop social relations, to satisfy collective needs and
reinforce the sense of belonging of the community living there.
Its peripherality and, in particular, its size have dominated every evaluation
and, in fact, have prevented the necessary in-depth analyses thereby reducing
the opinions to dismissive sentences of condemnation or appreciation.
The serpentone [large serpent], the mostro [monster], the astronave [spaceship],
the sbaglio lungo un chilometro [the one kilometre mistake], just to mention the
most recurrent, are the terms coined and used by the means of information to
denote the enormous building and to offer it as symbol of social unrest.
It is therefore not surprising that the heated cultural and political debate around
Corviale, which has been the subject of many platforms, culminated also in the
extreme, but also inadequate hypothesis, of being sentenced to demolition.
But, as stated, the attributes applied daily to this building stem, in most cases,
from a sensory, superficial and media perception of the structure; even if,
inevitably, they continue, still today, to spread and confirm the definition of
“monster” distracting - and, sometimes, alienating - attention and interest from
the capabilities which, instead, the megastructure expresses through its physical
form and the simple fact of having been inhabited for more than thirty years.
housing, remain in their homes and are asked to participate in the work site,
without being traumatically moved.
The competition, through a debate open to the international world of urban
culture and architecture, in fact wants to deal with the subject of urban
restoration starting from public space and with an approach that is not limited
to the simple management of the emergency but which, through planning
and organisation shared with the residents, on one hand realizes what was
considered right from the beginning as a vital element of the project, in other
words the integration of services and commercial activities - also self-operated
- and, on the other, restore the relationship with the countryside and with the
nearby city denied by certain official choices of the original project.
Because of its shape, its size and the residential density, Corviale furthermore
is an experimental opportunity of Smart Building to be pursued through the
use of all the innovative technologies available, through the realization of
interventions focused on the optimization of the technological networks, on
the reduction of energy consumption down to the recovery and recycling of
the waste.
“Rigenerare Corviale” therefore means operating through a short, medium and
long term multi-discipline programme that has concrete solutions which must
measure up to the financial feasibility in the search for loans, also European,
and with the social one through a process that ATER must carry out by
implementing a path of sharing, training and information with the residents
and all the individuals that operate in the area to facilitate the management,
coexistence in the district and rewrite the new rules of the relationship between
management agencies and tenants.
The subjects proposed by the competition have been developed with attention
to the best contemporary practices and focus on transforming the building by
learning from those who have already tested it by living in it, to reinterpret
the nature of the spaces, to emphasize the identity of the places, and to
make the collective life easier and increase relations internally and with the
surrounding fabric by restoring, in current terms, the character of innovative
experimentation desired by the design group coordinated by Mario Fiorentino.
From this perspective, all the families legally living as guests tenants of public
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THE HISTORICAL-SOCIAL CONTEXT:
PUBLIC RESIDENTIAL BUILDING IN THE 1970s IN ROME
OBJECT OF THE COMPETITION: CORVIALE
During the Seventies, the residential problem of Rome was an open
challenge for the local IACP: on one hand the delay compared to the
other large Italian cities, on the other the old and new shanty towns of
many decades all around the built-up nucleus and along the consular
and railway lines.
The Sixties had already ended in a climate of strong social tension,
in which the radicalization of the confrontation had led to distinctly
ideological positions: the house question therefore became a breeding
ground for claims and class clashes. There was a general strike on
19 November 1969 demanding an institutional solution on a national
scale to the housing problem, in which students and workers mobilised
by the trade unions actively participated.
The lack of housing in the capital was aggravated by the partial
application of Law 167 of 18 April 1962, which would have given the
municipalities the possibility of carrying out large scale interventions
which would organically integrate residential and services functions,
thereby creating potentially autonomous and self-sufficient city
districts in terms of the daily needs of the residents.
On 26 February 1964, the first Economic and Popular Plan (PEEP) was
launched which identified 73 areas (Zone Plans) in which to apply the
instruments made available by the 167, with 711,909 rooms forecast:
it was concluded in 1984 with the creation of just 273,487 rooms.
The partial response therefore perpetrates those conditions which
had already during the preceding decades fed both unauthorised
development and the proliferation of “shanty towns” and “districts”.
Emblematic of the implementation methods of the Roman PEEP was
the first P.d.Z.: the pioneer district of Spinaceto, created on an area of
around 187 hectares of municipal property, for an anticipated 26,000
residents. Designed in 1965, its first assignments were given already
in 1969, when the new urban settlement was also endowed with
schools of various levels. The other collective services were missing,
although anticipated in the initial design, due to procedural and
financial problems.
It was not until the mid-Seventies, after the introduction of Law 865
of 22 October 1971, that projects of other districts on a large scale
were financed again in Rome, assigned to prominent names of the
Roman architectural panorama. These projects radically changed what
was originally planned in the first draft of the individual Zoning Plans,
prepared during the brief period of time between the adoption of the
Local Strategic Plan in 1962 and its approval in 1965: in fact the PEEP
dates from 1964.
This change of pace is described well by Francesco Perego in the
essay “A monument of the theoretical city”, as introduction of the book
by Nicoletta Campanella, Roma: Nuovo Corviale. Miti, utopie, valutazioni.
Stato dei servizi, condizioni di vita degli abitanti di un sistema residenziale
della periferia, Bulzoni, Roma 1985 [Rome: New Corviale. Myths, utopia,
evaluations. Condition of the services, living conditions of the residents of a
suburban residential system, Bulzoni, Rome 1985]:
The mandate assigned to these designers by the customer was to imagine
interventions that were “different” than the traditional ones: Districts that
made one forget the mediocrity of the IACP production of the previous twenty
years finally bringing to Rome the great lesson of modern architecture.
Houses that were not camouflaged in the ordinary city, but on the contrary
stood out, proclaiming the diversity of the intentions in the forms of large
scale pure geometry; which proposed with force another way to conceive
working-class housing [...].
It is according to this logic that the Vigne Nuove, Laurentino and
Corviale projects were born. As the architect Pietro Barucci also wrote
in La Repubblica of 17 June 1988.
With the thrust of what seemed at the time to be an “inevitable development”,
the creation of these model districts, subject of a united programme
and financing, were vigorously undertaken, with largely experimental
intentions, and with immense faith in the self-governing abilities of this city,
in the public structures in charge of management. “No to dormitory lagers,
YES to equipped neighbourhoods”: this was the motto with which, after
GesCal’s long slumber, selected groups of architects were summoned to
work in a climate of renewed fervour in which we were measured against
the international experiences, looked at British housing, studied French
technology. Maybe for the first time in the history of Italian public building,
residences and shops, offices and social centres, kindergarten and nursery
schools, sports and recreational equipment were designed and created
simultaneously. Each of the three projects offered different outlines of
integration, inventive and complex, carefully drafted.
As Vittorio Vidotto stated it, in a speech - translated here - entitled
Corviale, Rome: Social Issues and Architectural Utopia (IX International
Conference on Urban History, Lyons, 27 - 30 August 2008):
In the Seventies, in Italy, there was a general radicalization of ideological
options. “Revolution” is a term widely used in the current language of the
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political left: If it was considered possible to revolutionize the political
system, it was also possible to revolutionize the housing system.
It will be the residents and the managers of these new districts to
highlight, with direct experience and daily use, the critical issues and
the problems that need to be faced and resolved.
For the most part, the criticism today is divided between those who
point a finger against the demiurgic will of the architects, who created
all-encompassing spaces proportionate to the size of their ego, and
those who charge the poor management of the public agencies and
the delayed (sometimes missing) realization of the services for the
social problems which developed right from the beginning. And Mario
Fiorentino – who we quote from the interview given to Bruno Regni
and Marina Thiery during the visit to Corviale by the students of the
Morgagni High School – explicitly states
[...] the wager is made on the way in which Corviale will be managed, in other
words all this experience is created from architecture and management
as is everything in the city, which is not made simply of facades but also
organisation, services, transport, etc. Therefore, let’s say, the political
management of this house is the same, or has equal weight, may even more
weight, than the architectural management, which is the small part that the
architects reserved for themselves. [...] If the tenant of tomorrow believes
that he has a paternalistic structure in which everything is offered to him
and nothing is given, it is clear that Corviale is destined for resounding failure,
because obviously it is not made for a paternalistic type of management.
If instead the suggestions that are made by the communal areas to make
them an opportunity to work together are used by the residents, if the
management of Corviale becomes a management of community, then the
conversation becomes important. This, obviously, depends on a series of
considerations, not fatalistic but concerning moments of intervention by the
Municipality, IACP, social workers, cultural sponsors, etc.
It was the Seventies and early Eighties when the first flats were starting
to be assigned in the complexes of Vigne Nuove, Laurentino and
Corviale. These were leaden years, of degeneration of an increasingly
bitter and exasperated political and social clash which erupted daily
among the citizens spreading unrest and mistrust. In a frightened
Rome, where violence was spreading, the architect Renato Nicolini,
Councillor to Culture of the Argan board, launched – to stimulate the
population and overcome the fear of leaving home at night, to pursue
a noble cultural purpose - the happy initiative of the Estate Romana.
However, the problems connected to the lack of basic services in the
suburbs of the city remained unsolved.
During the following decades, spent between unauthorised settlement
and evacuations, between negligence and affection of the second
generations, between micro-crime and neighbourhood committees,
between periodic electoral announcements and real daily struggles,
the progressive improvement was started of the quality of life in the
public complexes of the Roman suburb of the Seventies.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF REFERENCE:
• Abitare la periferia: l’esperienza della 167 a Roma, Camera di Commercio Industria Artigianato
e Agricoltura di Roma, Roma 2007 (S. BALDAZZI, L. BELLICINI, G. BONVINO, E. CAMPANELLI, F.
CAPRARA, T. DUTTO, A. MARTINI, M. MIELI, A. MOSTACCI, R. MOSTACCI, R. PATITUCCI, F. TOSO,
CRESME)
• L. BARBERA, A.I. DEL MONACO, Tre Ipotesi: Falansterio, Corona della Citta, Cerniera/Nodo della città
policentrica, in A.I. DEL MONACO (a cura di), Corviale Accomplished. Uno Studio per Corviale. Funzione
e Disfunzione dell’edilizia sociale, Casa Editrice La Sapienza, Roma 2009, pp. 264-279
• P. BARUCCI, Corviale, Laurentino e Vigne Nuove, in “La Repubblica”, 17/06/1988, riedito in P.
BARUCCI, Scritti di architettura 1987-2012, Clean Edizioni, Napoli 2012, pp. 59-62
• P. DE NARDIS, La condizione sociale abitativa, in F. COCCIA, M.C. COSTANZO (a cura di), Recupera
Corviale: un convegno internazionale, Kappa, Roma 2002, pp. 55-56
• I. INSOLERA, Roma moderna. Da Napoleone I al XXI secolo, Einaudi, Torino 2011
• P. JACOBELLI, Il momento concreto dell’architettura della città, in “Capitolium”, aprile 1974, pp. 59-72
• A. MONTENERO, Corviale: “oggetto” di riflessione, 2015 (non ancora edito)
• F. PEREGO, Un monumento della città teorica, saggio di presentazione del volume di N.
CAMPANELLA, Roma: Nuovo Corviale. Miti, utopie, valutazioni. Stato dei servizi, condizioni di vita degli
abitanti di un sistema residenziale della periferia, Bulzoni, Roma 1985, pp. 9-19
• B. REGNI, M. THIERY, Una visita guidata dieci anni fa, in “Groma” (rivista del Dipartimento di
Architettura e Analisi della Città dell’Università di Roma “La Sapienza”), n. 2, 1993, pp. 59-62
• P.O. ROSSI, Questioni storiche su Corviale, in A.I. DEL MONACO (a cura di), Corviale Accomplished.
Uno Studio per Corviale. Funzione e Disfunzione dell’edilizia sociale, Casa Editrice La Sapienza, Roma
2009, pp. 80-91
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THE LOCAL CONTEXT
DG1
■ The area included in the competition is located in the southwest quadrant
of the city of Rome, within the Grande Raccordo Anulare (2 km), along Via
Portuense after Casetta Mattei near the Natural Reserves of the Tenuta
Massimi (Massimi Estate) (approx., 470 hectares) and the Valle dei Casali
(approx. 774 hectares) and is part of the XI Municipality.
Zoning Map No. 61 of Corviale, which affects 60.5 hectares, falls under
the interventions included in the first Economic and Popular Building
Plan (PEEP) of the Municipality of Rome (Law 167/62) together with
Vigne Nuove and Laurentino.
DG1 ■ In the New General Building Plan, Corviale is included in the consolidated
city fabric T3 - “Free type twentieth-century expansion”. In the local
Regional Landscape Plan, it is identified as “Landscapes with urban
settlements”.
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FIGURES OF THE PLAN AS APPROVED
RESIDENTIAL AREA
total m3 680,900 equal to 8,500 inhabitants
AREAS
total m2 605,300
education m2 50,700
equipment of common interest
(religious, cultural, social, welfare and mixed) m2 27,750
play and sports park m2 255,140
public parking m2 22,000
roads m2 44,000
residences m2 205,710
LOCAL DENSITY
1,12 m3/m2 Equal to 140 inhabitants/hectare
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C
3
CUBIC CAPACITY
total m3 790,218
D
B
residential m3 703,248
extra-residential m3 86,970
A
NUMBER OF FLATS
total 1,202 equal to 6,979 rooms
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ADDITIONAL RESIDENCES
103 equal to 598 rooms
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6
(Contratto di Quartiere II (CdQII) – Resolution of the Municipal Council No. 114 of
26.04.2006)
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LOCALIZATION OF THE PEEP
n° 61 Corviale
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Corviale
territory of the XI Municipality
environmental systems
polarities
main road mobilty system
railway mobility system
railway stations
metro stations
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A. Tenuta Massimi
Natural Reserve
B. Valle dei Casali
C. Villa Doria Pamphili
D. San Camillo - Forlanini
- Spallanzani hospital
complex
1. Grande Raccordo Anulare
2. via Aurelia
3. Roma-Civitavecchia railway
4. Roma-Fiumicino highway
5. Roma-Fiumicino railway
6. via Portuense
7. via del Mare
8. Roma-Ostia Lido railway
9. via Cristoforo Colombo
10. via Pontina
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THE ROAD SYSTEM AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT
DG1
■ The entire complex is served by a one-way loop (Via di Poggioverde and
DF3
■ Along Via Poggioverde, near Corpo I, there is no pavement. The
DF3
■ Along Via Ferrari, the secondary vehicle accessible loops serving the
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Via Mazzacurati), with accesses from Via Portuense and Via Casetta
Mattei, which surrounds an area of around 800x60 m reserved for civil
and cultural urban equipment (Social Football, Corviale Centro, and the
church complex).
Beyond the loop there is the Mazzacurati school complex and the
Nicoletta Campanella Multipurpose Centre.
The loop, mainly designed for private road-based mobility, is the only
access and circulation system around the building.
pedestrian walkway feature of the building was, as per design,
transferred to the internal distribution route to the secondary
staircases and the free floor.
The vehicle access to the garage level of Corpo I is from Via Poggioverde
through five independent loops, one for every lot.
garages are a very strong dividing line between Corpo I and Corpo II
with the result that pedestrian traffic virtually non-existent, if not
impossible.
The buses that come to the building complex (lines 98 – 786 – 889)
stop near the access squares and reach Largo Reduzzi where the
terminal is located.
via poggioverde
via
SOCIAL FOOTBALL
BUS STATION
LARGO REDUZZI
por
via ferrari
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SCHOOL COMPLEX
MAZZACURATI
CHURCH COMPLEX
CORPO I
CORPO II
CORVIALE CENTRO
MULTIPURPOSE CENTER
NICOLETTA CAMPANELLA
SHOPPING CENTER
CASETTA MATTEI
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views from the access roads: via Poggioverde
via dei Sampieri
via Portuense
via Mazzacurati
via Poggioverde
via Ferrari
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RESIDENTIAL SETTLEMENT
NODO SERVIZI AB
NODO SERVIZI BC
NODO SERVIZI CD
NODO SERVIZI EF
NODO SERVIZI FG
DF1
DF2
■ The area on which Corviale is built is marked by a ridge on which the
■ main residential building is located (Corpo I), a linear city for 6,300
inhabitants, the most conspicuous part of the 8,500 anticipated at the
time for the entire settlement.
The residential part includes a total of 1,202 flats, in addition to those
created illegally on the free floor and is composed of three fundamental
elements:
- Corpo I, about one kilometre long, which forms the body of the main
building;
- Corpo II, also almost a kilometre long parallel to the main building and
located about 30 metres away on the west side of Corpo I;
- Trancia H, rotated at 45° relative to Corpo I and projects towards the
existing neighbourhood of Casetta Mattei.
CORPO II
CORPO I
CORVIALE
CENTRO
TRANCIA H
T09
sports
facilities
(disused)
urban gardens
sports association
social football
playground
■
The load-bearing structure of the residential building units is composed
of prefabricated reinforced concrete panels on a 6 metres centre
distance. A classic example of industrialisation as was normally used
during the Seventies and Eighties. The deterioration of the reinforced
concrete, when present, is superficial, and the complex does not show
static problems of any kind.
The facades of all the residential buildings are characterised by
concrete panel cladding, an example of the heavy prefabrication of the
period, which offer a decoration composed of diagonal grooves the
design of which was created, by mandate of the design group, by Nicola
Carrino, painter and sculptor who was very active in the Seventies. The
windows are the ribbon-type with red or blue frames depending on
whether they are above or below the free level.
CORVIALE CENTRO
covered market
healthcare services
CORVIALE CENTRO
municipal public services mitreo
heating station
CASE COOPERATIVE
church complex
shopping center
casetta mattei
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via ferrari
via poggioverde
via mazzacurati
pedestrian bridge
CORPO II
CORPO I
pedestrian
underpass
CORVIALE CENTRO
SCHOOL COMPLEX MAZZACURATI
TRANCIA H
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photos of the construction site where the structure of principal partition walls made of prefabricated reinforced concrete and the panels designed by the sculptor Nicola Carrino are clearly visible
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CORPO I
DF3
■ Corpo I, which is almost one kilometre long, has 8 residential floors,
one floor originally intended for services, the so-called free floor, the
ground floor and the garage floor for a total of 11 floors.
The distribution of the flats is in line with the first plans, up to the
free floor, and with walkway from the free floor to the ninth floor. The
sizes of the flats, similar for both the line and the walkway ones, vary
between 56 m2 and 118 m2.
PC ROOF
AB WALKWAY FLATS
PL FREE FLOOR
T04
T11
AL IN LINE FLATS
PT GROUND FLOOR
(ENTRANCES - CELLARS)
PG GARAGE FLOOR
(GARAGES – AIRSHAFTS)
transversal section
via poggioverde
via poggioverde
façade portion
largo
cesare reduzzi
largo
cesare reduzzi
LOT I
largo
emilio quadrelli
largo
emilio quadrelli
LOT II
largo
domenico trentecoste
largo
domenico trentecoste
LOT III
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Corpo I is divided into five management units, called lots, each with
its own entrance square and a monumental staircase. They form a
gigantic order that measures the entire building providing strong and
measured dividing lines in the façade.
The entrance squares, furthermore, form the access nodes to Corpo I
and direct connection to the interior pedestrian route of the ground
floor that distributes to the secondary staircases. According to the
intentions of the designer, Mario Fiorentino, the squares should have
been emphasized by the presence of a sculpture (never created).
The monumental stairs each contain a stair body and four lifts which
connect the ground floor and the garage level to the free floor and the
walkway levels.
The connection to the ground is characterised by a “base”, which
encloses the ground floor and the garage level, composed of concrete
tilted panels.
On the ground floor, which is reached from the entrance squares and
has an open height of 2.51 metres, there is the longitudinal route
of internal distribution which forms a perfectly linear interior road.
Walking along the route, we find on the east side the cellar blocks and
the secondary staircases, which close it completely. On the west side,
there are other cellar blocks spaced out by openings, with flower boxes
and cement benches, which face Corpo II, and the service staircases
which lead to Via Ferrari.
largo
odoardo tabacchi
largo
odoardo tabacchi
LOT IV
largo
pio fedi
largo
pio fedi
LOT V
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The 27 secondary vertical connections which are added to the main
staircases are composed of two staircases and a lift. It must be noted,
in terms of what is required by the competition, that it is possible to
access the interior route only from the five squares and that only some
staircases and some lifts of the secondary staircases reach the ninth
floor, the others reach the level below the free floor, only serving the
line units, therefore to reach the former free level a ramp of stairs must
be used.
walkway flats
(not subject to intervention)
services, systems, service wells
walkway
airshaft
secondary vertical connections
walkway
T04
■
walkway flats
WALKWAY FLAT MODEL PLAN – distribution scheme
T05
in line flat
airshaft
secondary vertical connections
in line flat
IN LINE FLAT MODEL PLAN - distribution scheme
■
T08
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• A terraced space, which doubles in height, of around 150 m2;
• Four communal areas serving the condominium meeting room,
two for every level, respectively 45.50 and 55 m2;
• Small services blocks and two loggias for exclusive use, one on Via
Poggioverde and one on Via Ferrari, of about 126 m2.
The garage floor, which has a clear height of 3.75 metres, has
vehicle access from Via Poggioverde across ramps placed sideways
to the entrance squares which from a ring for each lot. Internally, the
garage level can be reached by the monumental staircases and by the
secondary ones from some stairs and some lifts.
The construction is divided longitudinally along the entire height of the
building by inaccessible airshafts, around 5 metres wide, measures
transversally only from the secondary staircases and the lifts. The lack
of accessibility of these spaces make them the receptacle of waste and
makes them hard to manage and clean.
The services of the flats in line face the airshafts up to the free floor,
from the free floor up the walkways, designed, in addition to being
places of distribution to the flats also as social meeting places.
The free floor is the element that divides longitudinally Corpo I and
creates, together with the monumental staircases, another break in
the façade. This floor, destined to house services, professional and
commercial businesses, is completely occupied today illegally by selfconstructed flats. The Neighbourhood Contract II, approved and in the
process of being implemented, anticipates the final reconversion into
103 residences. The free floor is not part of the competition.
From the free floor, one was supposed to access the five condominium
meeting rooms, one for every lot, the size of which, overhanging, can
be seen in the body of the building.
The area of the condominium meeting rooms, which are always at the
points where the free floor changes height, is created on three levels
and is composed of:
Access to the condominium meeting rooms is from the walkway floor.
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DG2
■ The connection to the ground of Corpo I (ground floor, garage level and
The roofs of Corpo I are not accessible and have a gravel surface
protection. Near the monumental staircases, at the roof level, in
addition to the technical rooms of the lifts, there are:
• a lavatory of around 22 m2
• the drying areas, one open and one covered paved, 46 and 23.50
m2 respectively
airshafts) and the condominium meeting rooms have great potential
for transformation and fall under those spaces that the competition
wants transformed as its main theme.
The roofs of Corpo I could be used for the reserved services (cellars)
should they be moved from the ground floor, and for interventions
aimed at energy efficiency.
longitudinal section on the airshafts and staircases
LOT I
LOT II
LOT III
LOT IV
LOT V
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monumental staircases
five entrance squares
basement in tilted concrete panels (ground floor and garage floor)
roof level
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internal longitudinal distribution path
internal longitudinal distribution path – concrete benches and flower boxes
access to the secondary staircases
cellars
garage floor
walkway floor
airshaft
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CORPO I: DISTRIBUTIONAL SCHEMES OF A MODEL LOT
connection and distribution spaces
LEGEND
driveways
relevant services, facilities and technical rooms
vertical connections
lifts
parking lots
PT GROUND FLOOR (ENTRANCES - CELLARS)
1. entrance square
2. monumental staircase
3. lift (PG - PT- PL - AB)
4. staircase (PG - PT - PL - AB - PC)
5. connection bridge with Corpo II and Nodo
Servizi
6. Nodo Servizi
7. Corpo II
8. entance/exit ramps on via Ferrari
9. basement (tilted concrete panels)
10. slope
11. internal distribution pedestrian path
12. secondary staircases (PT - AL)
13. secondary staircases (from PT to AB)
14. secondary staircases (from PG to AB)
15. lift (PT - AL)
16. lift (from PG to AB)
17. airshafts
18. cellars
19. concrete benches and flower boxes
20. service staircases (PT - via Ferrari)
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green areas
7
other buildings of the complex
7
distribution and accesses
6
20
20
20
20
5
9
18
13 12
17
16
20
19
19
13 12
17
15
18
11
15 17
17 15
3
12 13
17
4
18
12 13
15
17
16
14
18
2
9
9
10
PT
ground floor
PG
garage floor
PL
free floor
AL
in line flats floor
AB
walkway flats floor
PC
roof floor
9
11
14
driveways and movement directions
10
1
8
8
via poggioverde
PG GARAGE FLOOR
(GARAGE - AIRSHAFTS)
11
12
1. entance/exit ramps on via Ferrari
2. service staircases (PT - via Ferrari)
4. lift (PG - PT - PL - AB)
8. garbage rooms
9. technical rooms
10. airshafts
11. Nodo Servizi
12. Corpo II
13. connection spaces between via Ferrari
and Corpo II accesses
12
13
11
13
2
8
6
via ferrari
2
2
8
2
8
via ferrari
2
8
8
3
7
10
9
10
9
9
4
10
9
10
7
6
5
1
1
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PC ROOF
2. lift technical rooms
4. lavatory
5. covered drying room
6. open air drying room
7. not walkable gravel covering
8. airshafts
8
2
8
8
2
5
8
2
LEGEND
7
8
3
8
vertical connections
7
elevators
4
6
5
8
7
4
9
5
8
8
9
4
5
8
2
9
3
5
8
8
concrete panels cladding (diagonal
groove drawing by N. Carrino)
ribbon window (blue frames)
6
7
4
1
4
8
9
5
10
6
7
PT
ground floor
PG
garage floor
PL
free floor
AL
in line flats floor
AB
walkway flats floor
PC
roof floor
4
10
5
6
7
10
2
10
2
7
6
5
10
3
4
7
6
5
10
8
9
4
1
9
5
6
7
5
6
7
2
7
6
5
7
6
5
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LONGITUDINAL SECTION
VIA POGGIOVERDE FAÇADE
relevant services, facilities and technical rooms
2
areas not subject to intervention
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1. entrance square
3. lift (PT - PG - PL - AB)
4. connection driveways between via
Poggioverde and via Ferrari
5. airshafts
7. lift (PT - AL)
11. technical rooms
connection and distribution spaces
1
AL IN LINE FLATS
4. in line flats not subject to intervention
7. lift (PT - AL)
10. airshafts
4
7
AB WALKWAY FLATS
4. walkway flats not subject to intervention
8. airshafts
9. concrete benches and flower boxes
6
7
8
PC
AB
3
PL
AL
1
11
10
11
10
condominium meeting room
11
4
4
11
10
11
10
11
PT
PG
tecnical shaft
monumental staircase
PC
AB
PL
ribbon window (red frames)
basement in tilted concrete panels
(PT and PG)
AL
PT
PG
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b’
a’
CONDOMINIUM MEETING ROOMS
LEGEND
PIANO LIBERO
APPARTAMENTO
IN LINEA
loggia for exclusive use
of the condominium
meeting room
common spaces serving
the the condominium
meeting room
double height terraced
the condominium
meeting room
stairs to be removed
service blocks
areas not subject
to intervention
wc
CHIOSTRINA
CHIOSTRINA
wc
VI
V
APPARTAMENTO
IN LINEA
PIANO LIBERO
b
a
IV
CONDOMINIUM MEETING ROOM MODEL – aa’ section on the condominium meeting room
b’
a’
CONDOMINIUM MEETING ROOM MODEL - IV free floor (loggia for exclusive use)
PIANO LIBERO
APPARTAMENTO A BALLATOIO
CHIOSTRINA
CHIOSTRINA
VI
V
CONDOMINIUM MEETING ROOM MODEL – bb’ section on the common spaces serving the
CONDOMINIUM MEETING ROOM MODEL – façade
on via Ferrari
CONDOMINIUM MEETING ROOM MODEL – façade
on via Poggioverde
b’
CONDOMINIUM MEETING ROOM MODEL - V walkway floor (access level)
a’
IV
b
a
PIANO LIBERO
APPARTAMENTO
A BALLATOIO
CHIOSTRINA
CHIOSTRINA
b
APPARTAMENTO
A BALLATOIO
a
CONDOMINIUM MEETING ROOM MODEL - VI walkway floor (common facilities)
façade on via Poggioverde
façade on via Ferrari
detail of the condominium meeting room
interior of the condominium meeting room
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via poggioverde
via ferrari
via poggioverde
via ferrari
CORPO II
Corpo II rises parallel to Corpo I stopping at the points near the
monumental staircases in which Nodo Servizi in Lots 2, 4 and 5 are
located, and in lot 3, an open-air theatre. Corpo II has a variable height,
based on the topography of the land, of two or three floors. The flats
are all the walkway type and the roofs are flat.
DG2 ■ Corpo II is not part of the intervention with the exception of its
elements of connection with Corpo I, with via Ferrari and the park.
■
T03 ■
T10 ■
T11 ■
DF3
the relation between Corpo I and Corpo II
model section on the monumental staircase and connection with Nodo Servizi
via poggioverde
via ferrari
model section on the monumental staircase and connection with the open air theatre
NODO AB
NODO BC
NODO CD
NODO EF
NODO FG
elevation profile on via Ferrari
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TRANCIA H
LEGEND
■ Trancia H runs from the main loop, towards the Casetta Mattei
T12 ■
neighbourhood, with a slope of 45° relative to Corpo I. This building is
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commercial premises
pedestrian path
areas not subject
to intervention
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ATER offices
communal pharmacy
via Mazzacurati
via dei Sampieri
around 254 metres long with a height that varies between 23 and 19
metres, adapting to the topography of the land.
Trancia H, which forms the sixth management unit-lot, holds 122 flats
with distribution in line.
On the ground floor there is a covered pedestrian walkway, 11
commercial premises with areas of between 108 m2 and 26 m2, and
some ATER offices.
The covered walkway, which was designed as a system of
communication between the new neighbourhood and the existing
fabric of the Casetta Mattei neighbourhood, leads to the area that was
intended in the Zoning Map as a shopping centre, which today has
been created.
DG2 ■ Currently, of the 11 commercial premises along the pedestrian
walkway, only the communal pharmacy is active.
To reactivate the pedestrian walkway, it will be necessary to rethink
its valuation also by including activities within the ATER premises.
via dei Sampieri
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SIGNS
DG3
■ The entire orientation system within the residential complex is
assigned to a sign system, the design of which was given to Stefano
Fiorentino. The signs form a visual and chromatic system in reference
to the various levels of use of the user.
The orientation and signs themes are part of the competition.
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signage for the access squares
signage for the services
signage for the principal accesses to the walkways
signage for the vertical connections
chromatic indications for lots and levels
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SERVICES
NODI SERVIZI AB
panoramic viewpoint
NODI SERVIZI CD
open air theatre
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
ROOF PLAN
NODI SERVIZI (SERVICE NODES)
■ Near the five large access nodes composed of the entrance squares
and the monumental staircases, five pedestrian bridges connect at
T10 ■
right angle Corpo I to the services nodes of Corpo II.
T11 ■
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN
Within these five nodes, which break the continuity of Corpo II,
there are some rooms destined for basic services such as crèches,
kindergartens, not part of the intervention, commercial operations of
basic needs and various services.
In particular, the following services are present today:
• in the second lot, in the NODI SERVIZI BC with access from Largo
Quadrelli, there are a family clinic and the senior centre;
• in the fourth lot, in the NODI SERVIZI EF with access from Largo
Tabacchi, there is the headquarters of the tenant committee, the
CAF and the “Red Chamber” theatre laboratory.
• In the fifth lot, in the NODI SERVIZI FG with access from Largo Pio
Fedi, where the business incubator was located for a few years,
there is a recording and video montage room and a graphics studio.
There is also a Boxing gym here.
For purchases of basic needs there is only a small supermarket where
there was supposed to be, on Via Ferrari near the third lot, a restaurantcafeteria.
DG2 ■ Included in the intervention are these premises owned by ATER:
• NODI SERVIZI BC – EF - EG a location on two levels of 192 m2 each.
• NODI SERVIZI BC – EF - EG a location on two levels of 68 m2 each.
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NODI SERVIZI BC - EF – FG
LEGEND
areas subject
to intervention
pedestrian paths
areas not subject
to intervention
two level room
(+1 and +2)
two level room
(PT and PG)
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
ROOF FLOOR PLAN
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CORVIALE CENTRO
CORVIALE CENTRO
■ In front of Corpo I on the east side in the section between via
Mazzacurati and via Poggio Verde there is the Corviale Centro which
T12 ■
DF3
LEGEND
commercial areas
pedestrian paths
areas not subject
to intervention
FRONT AREAS
OF TRANCIA H
section
FRONT AREAS
OF TRANCIA H
higher level plans
today houses municipal public services of various kinds including the
Registry Office, the Council Office, the Secretariat with the Technical
Organisation Unity of Municipality XI.
In addition, in this complex there is the command of the XV Group
of Municipal Police, the Rome mercato coperto (covered market, an
open-air theatre, healthcare services, the Mitreo, artistic production
lab, and some premises owned by ATER, not being used today with the
exception of one occupied as studio of local artists.
DG2 ■ The premises that ATER owns in the Corviale Centro are located on a
square and include in particular:
• 3 locations on one level for a total of approx. 826 m2;
• 1 location on four floors for a total of approx. 741 m2.
T01
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THE NICOLETTA CAMPANELLA MULTIPURPOSE CENTRE
In front of the Civic Centre, beyond via Mazzacurati, there is the
Nicoletta Campanella Multipurpose Centre where the municipal library
is located which houses around 13,000 books and has a rich catalogue
of DVDs and musical CDs, four reading rooms for adults and one for
children with a recreation room and a bar cafeteria.
The Multipurpose Centre also houses the COL – Workforce Development
Centre which offers employment consulting and works in synergy with
the Employment Centre of the municipality and the time bank.
T01
■
THE MAZZACURATI SCHOOL COMPLEX
Next to the Multipurpose Centre is the Mazzacurati school complex
which includes a kindergarten, two elementary schools and two middle
schools.
T01
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SPORTS FACILITIES PRESENT IN THE AREA
Among the sports facilities, the social football, the rugby field, the
municipal pool and the Osaka Sports Club stand out.
DG2
■ The competition requires, as related theme, the preparation of a
via mazzacurati
CORVIALE CENTRO
municipal public services
CORVIALE CENTRO
sanitary services
CORVIALE CENTRO
covered market
TRANCIA H
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CORVIALE CENTRO AND THE FRONT AREAS OF TRANCIA H
general master plan that defines the system of public spaces and
bicycle-pedestrian pathways connecting with the existing services,
and which anticipates the location of new activities in the existing
unused premises (pedestrian walkway and premises on the ground
floor of Trancia H and premises of Corviale Centro owned by ATER).
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CORVIALE TODAY
The urban regeneration project of the Corviale Quadrant in Rome
continues a constant activity by the Institutions that has led over time,
from the early Nineties, to allocating resources and approving projects
by the State, Regione Lazio, the Municipality of Rome and ATER.
These projects involved above all the completion of the system
of public services, pursued with persistence by Regione Lazio, the
Municipality of Rome, ATER and the Municipality, but also actions
for the improvement of the social conditions. The local communities
have a strong history of active participation in support of the public
interventions.
This activity has made it possible to have today one of the best equipped
neighbourhoods of all those of the Roman suburbs.
The State co-financed, with the Region and the Municipality, the
Programma di Recupero Urbano (P.R.U.), approved in 2001, which
favoured private initiatives in the surrounding settlement context,
permitting public works to be achieved with private resources. The
Programma di Recupero Urbano (P.R.U.) however did not anticipate
interventions on the ATER residential complex.
The approval of the Contratto di Quartiere II (CdQII), in 2006, aimed
totally at a programme of just public projects, continued the activity
of the institutions, this time also in the Corviale building, financing
and approving among the projects, the reorganisation of the illegally
occupied free floor.
PROGRAMMA DI RECUPERO URBANO - P.R.U. (ART. 11 LAW 493/93)
P.R.U.
■ Programma di Recupero Urbano (P.R.U.) is a programmed aimed mainly
at the regeneration of the public residential building heritage which
must consider besides the already tested building recovery, also the
modernisation and integration of the urban infrastructures and, for the
first time, also the environmental qualification or requalification.
The P.R.U. – Corviale anticipates a total of 25 private interventions and
28 public works.
Of particular interest, in terms of the competition, is the imminent
creation of a plaza near the North front of Building OP 14.
Furthermore, it must be specified that the OP 29, which anticipated the
redefinition of via Poggioverde has been excluded from the interventions.
CDQ II ■
CONTRATTO DI QUARTIERE II (CDQII)
Contratto di Quartiere II (CdQII) is an innovative programme of
urban recovery which entails a coordinated intervention of various
administrations (it is in fact financed by the Ministry of Infrastructures
and Transport and Regione Lazio) aimed at increasing infrastructure
services in deteriorated neighbourhoods, and to promote measures
needed for local development, to increase employment and social
integration.
The interventions anticipated by Contratto di Quartiere II (CdQII) –
Corviale for which Roma Capitale is responsible are:
• creation of multipurpose sports fields (basketball, volleyball…)
for the boys of the district and to complete the section of sports
services which already includes a communal pool and a rugby field;
• requalification and decoration of the swath of public green space
between via Poggioverde and via Mazzacurati, including new
games for children, the construction of a recreation area and the
creation of a fountain the paved area in front of the Corviale Church;
• requalification and new decoration of the infant game spaces in
the public park of the sixth lot of via dei Sampieri;
• creation of a covered sports installation for skating;
• adaptation, air conditioning and decoration of the Nicoletta
Campanella Municipal Multipurpose Centre in via Mazzacurati.
The interventions for which ATER ROMA is responsible consists in the
construction reorganisation with change in intended use from services
to residences of the rooms on the free floor (3°, 4° and 5° levels) with
the resulting creation of 103 flats to provide a housing response to the
families entitled to public housing, who for around thirty years have
been occupying the rooms of the free floor.
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THEMES OF THE TENDER
The objective of the international design competition “Rigenerare
Corviale” is the restoration of the publicly owned, residential complex
of Corviale, built between 1980 and 1984 (including in the Plan for
Public Residential Building No. 61) and the surrounding settlement
context. The competition is launched by ATER - Azienda Territoriale
per l’Edilizia Residenziale del Comune di Roma [Territorial Housing
Company of Municipality of Rome] – and promoted and financed by
the Regione Lazio.
Attention to the aspects of the urban complex concerning the local
economy, the physical and social conditions and the prospect of new
structures must be the background from which the design plans of
the participants stem. It is required in fact that the design proposals
include all the interdisciplinary contributions that the contemporary
urban and architectural culture suggest. The designers must explain
their directions in the project report.
DG2 ■ Following are the MAIN THEMES, which constitute the purpose of
the first tranche of intervention and the autonomy and feasibility of
which will be specifically evaluated, and the CORRELATED THEMES,
also important, which give the competitor the maximum freedom
relative to the proposed intervention strategies. These design ideas
are in any case strategic because they will find future application in the
subsequent realisation phases of the total project.
THE MAIN THEMES OF THE COMPETITION ARE:
A) REGENERATION OF CORPO I: ACCESS AND INTERNAL CIRCULATION,
PERMEABILITY OF GROUND FLOOR, NEW DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
AND NEW FUNCTIONS
B) PLAN FOR PARTICIPATION OF INHABITANTS DURING THE
SUBSEQUENT DESIGN PHASES
C) NEW EXTERNAL ROUTES AND CONNECTIONS TO EXISTING AND
PLANNED PUBLIC SERVICES
THE CORRELATED THEMES OF THE COMPETITION ARE:
D) GENERAL MASTERPLAN
E) CORVIALE SMART BUILDING
F) ORIENTATION SYSTEM
G) INTEGRATION WITH ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS
AREA OF INTERVENTION
MAIN THEMES A + B + C
CORRELATED THEMES E + F + G
CORRELATED THEME D
MAIN THEMES A + B + C
CORRELATED THEMES E + F + G
CORRELATED THEME D
(new services and public spaces –
premises on grownd level of Trancia H owned by ATER)
CORRELATED THEME D
(new services and public spaces –
premises of Corviale Centro owned by ATER)
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MAIN THEME
A) REGENERATION OF CORPO I: ACCESS AND INTERNAL CIRCULATION, PERMEABILITY OF GROUND FLOOR, NEW DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND NEW FUNCTIONS
The principal objective of the competition is a renewed use of the
ground floor of Corpo I returning to quota zero the “urban street”
planned on the free floor.
This objective must be pursued through the requalification of the
longitudinal distribution path, the realization of transversal connections
for the communication between east and west and the integration
with the necessary functions.
Areas of intervention will be, in this case:
1. THE GROUND FLOOR, THE GARAGE LEVEL AND THE AIRSHAFTS
2. THE TRANSVERSAL, HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
3. THE FIVE CONDOMINIUM MEETING ROOMS
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1. THE GROUND FLOOR, THE GARAGE LEVEL AND THE AIRSHAFTS
■ Corpo I is characterised by a barrier represented by the base, which
includes the ground floor with the cellars and the garage level,
composed of cement prefabricated panels. The only function of the
ground floor is the longitudinal distribution pathway to the staircases
and the cellars. The entire floor has a height of 2.51 m.
The subject of the foundation must be reprocessed by mitigating its
character as barrier relative to the public use of the space, redesigning
the distribution and access system to the staircases, today only possible
from the entrance squares, by integrating it with the necessary functions.
The physical and spatial permeability of the building must allow the
residents to freely access the interior of the actual building, the existing
system of public services on the east side, the Nodi Servizi, Corpo II and
the park of the Tenuta Massimi (Massimi Estate) on the west side.
DG2 ■ The project must include a new design of the ground floor, with the
possibility of including, where necessary also parts of the garage floor
and the airshaft spaces with the goal of:
• increasing the transversal communication, also visual, between
via Poggioverde, the Nodi Servizi, located on the country side, and
via Ferrari, by operating also on the relocation of the structures
(garages or cellars) possibly removed from the ground floor and
garage. Alternative locations must be proposed for the structures
moved respecting the current quantities.
• Improve the quality of the interior longitudinal path, breathing life
basement - via Poggioverde side
basement - via Ferrari side
into the base of the building, also through new functional activities
which constitute a proposed urban street.
In fact, in Corviale, even if all the public services necessary are present
in the surrounding area (schools, library, municipal offices, etc.) there
still exists a demand for proximity services not met relative to a
smaller scale compared to the neighbourhood, in addition to the socalled personal services (tax consultants, laundry, areas for gardening,
bicycle rental, co-working labs, etc.).
For the new activities useful for the life of the urban street, areas are
allowed up to a maximum of 16,000 m3 or 5,000 m2 which can be
modular and consolidated.
Ground floor services
M3
maximum allowed
M2
maximum allowed
16.000
5.000
• Anticipate new functions in the premises owned by ATER of the
Nodi Servizi BC – EF – FG.
internal longitudinal path
airshaft
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2. THE HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
■ The current distribution system is composed of 5 monumental
DG2 ■ staircases, with longitudinal pathway, which crosses the entire building,
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the 27 secondary staircases, with relative lifts, and the system of
distribution walkways to the flats.
The distribution near the 5 monumental staircases leads:
• to the stairs and lifts that serve the free floor and the walkways
(from the free floor to the 9th floor);
• to the walkways connecting to the Nodi Servizi;
• to the longitudinal distribution route.
The distribution near the longitudinal route leads:
• To the 27 stair and lift blocks that also service the flats in line and
the garage floor;
• To the cellars;
• To small and limited sitting areas with flower boxes.
The system of walkways serves as the distribution of the flats from
the 5th to the 9th floor. Near the monumental stairs there are small
meeting places with tables and cement benches.
and the vertical ones, must be reorganized through:
• the development and adaptation of the system of vertical
connections (stair units and lifts), also for a different use of the
roofs and the condominium meeting rooms (subject which will be
explained in the next point);
• the redesign of the meeting places near the walkways;
• the diversification, development and modernisation of the
transversal connections.
As already stated previously, the Contratto di Quartiere II (CdQII)
anticipates on the free floor, in order to regularise an occupancy situation
of spaces originally intended for services, the creation of 103 flats.
In compliance with this implementation programme, which will be put
out to contract shortly, the project must anticipate the development of
the connections with the ground floor (stairs and lifts).
3. THE FIVE CONDOMINIUM MEETING ROOMS
■ The project, anticipated by the Contratto di Quartiere II (CdQII), to
DG2 ■ convert the free floor into 103 residences intentionally does not include
DF3
the 5 condominium meeting rooms.
The intention is to restore these places to their original function of
public and collective use. For this reason, the project must plan the
reorganisation of these spaces and their use for collective purposes
(university rooms, condominium meeting rooms, areas for parties…).
In the original project, the access to these areas was from the free floor
and from the walkway levels. Therefore, it is necessary to study a new
access system in order to permit independent use.
Possible subdivisions, which prevent indiscriminate access to all the
communal areas, must be studied in order to guarantee safety and
must not contradict the unitary design system of the complex.
The entire system of routes within the complex, both the horizontal
monumental staircase
secondary staircase
walkway
walkway
meeting areas in correspondance of the walkways
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MAIN THEME
B) PLAN FOR PARTICIPATION OF INHABITANTS
DURING THE SUBSEQUENT DESIGN PHASES
MAIN THEME
C) NEW EXTERNAL ROUTES AND CONNECTIONS TO
EXISTING AND PLANNED PUBLIC SERVICES
A participation phase of the inhabitants and all interested subjects
working in the quadrant is anticipated, at the end of the Competition,
after the assignment has been awarded and before the final design.
During the preliminary phase, ATER decided not to include involvement
extended to the citizens with the objective of activating a shared
programme with the design group, winner of the competition, of the
participatory actions.
ATER, with the group of designers, will organise in order to facilitate
the integration between the group of designers and the local social
context, meetings to explain the winning project and review certain
aspects in depth. The winning group will be required to organise with
ATER the meetings and to actively participate in them.
The designers participating in the competition are therefore asked to
include in the design group a qualified sociologist expert in participatory
processes and to propose in the project report, delivered with the
papers, the organisational methods of the subsequent participation
path that best adapts to the specificities of their project.
The designers are also required to reflect on how the project presented
could be available for subsequent clarifications during the participatory
path and which could be the settings and opportunities left open in
the project for later definition. In these terms, the design solutions
which will be presented in the competition must be prepared at once
to positively accept adjustments and ideas which may emerge during
the participation phase, consistent with the design approach and with
the economic framework and which in any case do not correspond to
substantial variants of the winning project.
The Corviale pedestrian accessibility needs to be substantially
improved and integrated.
The problems that the residents face daily when using the existing
system stem from the rigidity and the complexity of the overall
distribution system.
It will therefore be necessary to work on various elements already
present in the intervention area:
1. THE EXTERIOR ROUTE ON VIA POGGIOVERDE
DF3
■ The project must anticipate the pedestrian pathway along via
Poggioverde. In fact, the building does not have a pavement on the
side of the building along its entire length, with the result that in order
DG2 ■ to skirt it – requirement which turns out to be fundamental – the
residents, of all ages, are forced to walk in the street endangering their
safety or using the pavement on the other side of the street.
1. THE EXTERIOR ROUTE ON VIA POGGIOVERDE
2. THE 5 ENTRANCE SQUARES
3. THE ACCESSES TO THE PARKING SPACES
4. THE ROUTE ON VIA FERRARI
All the solutions must take into account usability also by individuals
with disabilities or serious limitations in compliance with current
regulations.
via Poggioverde
via Poggioverde
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2. THE 5 ENTRANCE SQUARES
3. ACCESSES TO THE PARKING SPACES
4. THE ROUTE ON VIA FERRARI
DF3
■ The five squares facing the monumental staircases, today hardly
DF3
■ The service loops for access to the garages can be modified to optimize
DF3
■ The intervention must, furthermore, include the requalification of
DG2
■ be requalified and integrated into the new system of pathways and
DG2
■ Poggioverde which today is conditioned by the entrances and exits.
DG2
■
identifiable because they are devoid of specific connotations, need to
public spaces.
Decor and lighting can also contribute to their restoration.
access square
access square
not only the use of the parking spaces but also the usability of via di
entrance to the garages - via Ferrari
entrance to the garages - via Ferrari
via Ferrari
via Ferrari from the functional point of view and the quality of the
public space. Via Ferrari, in fact, today only has the function of being
the access road to the garages and its pedestrian pathway is heavily
conditioned, despite the fact that there are some commercial activities
(supermarket) and some public and private services (boxing gym,
senior centre...).
This prevents the restoration of the entire longitudinal spatial dimension
both from the functional point of view and perception. The condition of
via Ferrari as service space lowers the quality of the residences of Corpo
II and does not take into account the need to restore and facilitate the
necessary transversal crossings for the connections to the park.
via Ferrari
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CORRELATED THEMES
Even if the main themes of the competition concern Corpo I and the
areas immediately adjacent to it owned by ATER, the preparation of a
general master plan is requested, referred to the entire area of PdZ no.
61, which takes into account the subjects of mobility, public transport
and connections to the established parks. The offers that are able to
arrange the open space of the district with the city, in particular with
the other pedestrian public areas and the parks, through the definition
of a network of pedestrian and bicycle-pedestrian pathways, will be
recognized.
These proposals however must not restrict the overall realization of
the project but must be intended as possible additions which can be
eventually achieved through subsequent functional sections.
The general masterplan must take into account the following subjects:
1. PUBLIC TRANSPORT, PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC, BICYCLING AND
REDUCTION OF THE CONDITIONS IMPOSED BY THE CURRENT
AUTOMOBILE TRAFFIC
2. CONNECTIONS TO ESTABLISHED PARKS, RECREATIONAL AND
PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES
3. CONNECTION TO PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE ZONING MAP
4. NEW SERVICES AND PUBLIC SPACES
© photo by Andrea Jemolo
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1. PUBLIC TRANSPORT, PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC, BICYCLING AND
REDUCTION OF THE CONDITIONS IMPOSED BY THE CURRENT
AUTOMOBILE TRAFFIC
DG1 ■ The urban setting of Corviale suffers from a lack of connections to
the main part of the city. Standing out in the first place is the limited
quantity and quality of public transport (road, track) but, above all, the
lack of bicycle-pedestrian connections and crossings.
It is necessary to rethink the system of infrastructure connections
with the urban quadrant and the entire city, with particular reference
to accessibility and reduction of private vehicle traffic in favour of
expanding public transport and bicycle-pedestrian movement.
The diagram of local circulation, furthermore, suffers from a setting
that favours the use of private cars. It is therefore necessary to
rebalance the local circulation system by promoting pedestrian and
cycling activity through the resizing of the routes suitable for cars.
view towards Tenuta Massimi
2. CONNECTIONS TO ESTABLISHED PARKS, RECREATIONAL AND
PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES OF THE QUADRANT
DG1 ■ In addition, it is necessary to enhance the connections with the
production activities and the spaces of the surrounding agricultural
areas, as identified by the current Structure Plan of the Natural Reserve
Tenuta Massimi, and with the areas of public green space within and
outside the actual setting.
The system of existing and workable urban gardens, in accordance with
the park authorities, must be integrated with the general arrangements
of the countryside plan both from the functional point of view and the
technical equipment.
4. NEW SERVICES AND PUBLIC SPACES
The competition asks that the project of the public spaces become the
generating element of a new quality of relations between the various
elements of the Zoning Map by identifying and locating those economic
activities with social content which are capable of increasing and
renewing the sense of community by contributing to the restoration
path of the district.
Entrepreneurial activities with a social interest (cooperatives, not-forprofit businesses selected depending on the social benefits that their
activity produce), support services and assistance in the creation and
consolidation of businesses (training, incubation and collaborative
networking actions among businesses, operators of the community
and individuals with expertise) could be planned, in line with the
European directives.
For these new functions, it is hoped that alternative management and
organisation models will be proposed, which take into account also a
possible collective management by the residents.
The project must focus on the enhancement of the premises by
DG2 ■ integrating the existing activities with the new ones planned.
To locate these new activities, the following properties owned by ATER
have been identified:
• THE PREMISES OWNED BY ATER OF CORVIALE CENTRO
• THE GROUND FLOOR PREMISES OF TRANCIA H
3. THE CONNECTIONS TO PUBLIC SERVICES OF THE ZONING MAP
DG2
■ With the exception of the only pedestrian overpass located near Corviale
Centro, the only way to reach the public services (Civic Centre, Nicoletta
Campanella Multipurpose Centre and Mazzacurati education complex)
is by crossing the street which, in addition to private traffic, is used as
route for above ground public vehicles and the cars of the residents
accessing the ramps of the garages located below the main building.
The project must anticipate the appropriate relocation of the bicyclepedestrian crossings on via Poggioverde to favour the use of the existing
public services and the connection with the local settings involved in the
Programma di Recupero Urbano (P.R.U.) and the Contratto di Quartiere
II (CdQII) for the use of the green space and the anticipate recreational
and production activities.
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CORRELATED THEME
Today it is even more urgent that the subject of regeneration be
handled with a new perspective that allow the subjects of overall
sustainability of a gigantic urban machine that consumes enormous
quantities of energy to be resolved. Rethinking is required for a
gradual change of its skin (all the exterior surfaces), from the roofs to
the intrados of the attics, as well as a reconsideration of the entire
system of installations. We can go beyond the quantities indicated by
the current rules for production of clean energy and domestic water.
A reconversion approach of the gigantic central heating plant opens
scenes of great innovation. Therefore the impact of the complex must
be evaluated compared to the quality of the air, the cycle of the water
(supply and discharge, the cycle of the waste.
The Zoning Map area, subject of preparation of the general master plan
and the building, due to its absolutely atypical architectural shape which
is exceptional in the urban panorama, already suggest extraordinary
opportunities for the integrated application of experimental and
cutting-edge plant engineering solutions.
Careful thought to the scheduling of future maintenance could also
suggest innovative systems for handling equipment, even functional
to new productive uses. More careful use of the green space, involving
also the areas of the parks, or their implementation by involving the
roofs, can contribute to the daily operation of the building and provide
spaces to be managed by the residents. The need to obtain maximum
energy savings in a particularly energy consuming complex must
indicate the lines for future interventions for making it more energy
efficient to reduce consumption and the operating costs of the building
in line with the European directives.
The candidates are asked, as a correlated subject, to list innovative
solutions of energy sustainability applied to the main themes of
the competition and integrated with the architectural interventions
proposed aimed at transforming Corviale into an intelligent (smart)
complex taking into account also the instructions of the ItacaRegione Lazio Protocol as instrument of evaluation of the energy and
environmental sustainability of the buildings.
These solutions must be included in a more general plan of interventions
and must not condition the feasibility of the project developed for the
main themes of the competition, but must be understood as additional
indications to be developed during subsequent phases and achieved
with European financing channels.
CORRELATED THEME
DG3
■ In consideration of the new spaces and the relative uses, the candidates
are asked to study a new system of orientation and recognition taking
into account, possibly, the existing one.
CORRELATED THEME
The project may be integrated with artistic interventions. The selection
concerning the type of installations is left to the complete discretion of
the design group.
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FINANCIAL PLAN AND COST ESTIMATE
The overall design proposal, divided into MAIN THEMES AND
CORRELATED THEMES, must be suitable for implementation in
operational phases that can be carried out at different times. Each
operational phase must involve a complete operation carried out on
the entire building.
THE MAIN THEMES
A) REGENERATION OF CORPO I: ACCESS AND INTERNAL CIRCULATION,
PERMEABILITY OF GROUND FLOOR, NEW DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM
AND NEW FUNCTIONS
B) PLAN FOR PARTICIPATION OF INHABITANTS DURING THE
SUBSEQUENT DESIGN PHASES
C) NEW EXTERNAL ROUTES AND CONNECTIONS TO EXISTING AND
PLANNED PUBLIC SERVICES
The design group must estimate the parametric cost for all the MAIN
THEMES (A+B+C).
The first operational phase must involve an intervention on the
entire building and must respond to MAIN THEME A (“Regeneration of
Corpo I: Access and internal circulation, permeability of ground floor, new
system of distribution and new functions”) and MAIN THEME B (“Plan fon
participation of inhabitants during the subsequent design phases”).
The estimated value for the realization of the first operational phase
(A + B) must have a maximum cost of Euro 7,200,000 net of VAT. If the
resulting amount (A+B) exceedes Euro 7,200,000.00, the parts that
could be moved to a second intervention and their relative value must
be highlighted. It must be stressed that the first operational phase
must foresee work on the whole of Corpo I.
The economy of the proposal submitted, its management and simplicity
of maintenance will also be evaluated.
THE CORRELATED THEMES
The design group must estimate the maximum cost for implementing
operational phases for the realisation of the CORRELATED THEMES
(D+E+F+G).
The economy of proposal presented will also be assessed with the aim
of satisfying all the CORRELATED THEMES.
MAIN THEMES
A
(independent phase
carried out on the whole
building)
B
FIRST OPERATIONAL PHASE
functional and independent
building
€ ......................
to be defined/
parameter-based
estimate
A
possible completion
C
€ 7.200.000
parameter-based
estimate
OPERATIONAL PHASE
building
€ ......................
to be defined/
parameter-based
estimate
CORRELATED THEMES
D
E
F
G
OPERATIONAL PHASE
building
OPERATIONAL PHASE
building
OPERATIONAL PHASE
building
€ ......................
to be defined
OPERATIONAL PHASE
building
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COMPETITION PRIZES AND CALCULATION OF
THE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
The presumed amounts of the fees relative to the final design of
the main themes are currently calculated on the amount of Euro
7,200,000.00 net of VAT. The assignment is currently estimated on
that value, subject to increase by the Authority due to addition of
themes, amounting, net of social security charges and taxes, if due, to
Euro 298,990.15 for the assignment of the final design including the
first indications and requirements on safety.
These amounts were deduced first of all by referring to the Decree of
the Minister of Justice of 31 October 2013, no. 143 (Regulation bearing
the determination of the fees to be established for competitions in the
procedures to assign public contracts of services relative to architecture
and engineering), and in any case for the awarding of the service a
negotiated procedure will be followed as provided by Art. 99 paragraph
5 of Legislative Decree 163/06.
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CONTACT INFORMATION
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