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The compositional matrix of the project plays on the contrast between the façades, characterized by their different functions. The building is located between two streets: towards the South, wider and with heavy traffic, and towards the North, narrower and one-way. The living areas face South, with wide terraces and projecting balconies. The sleeping areas are to the North, with smaller windows and reduced balconies.
The project reinterprets in a contemporary key the residential typology of the bourgeois area of Bologna, characterized by buildings from different periods, situated close to the first hills and not far from the historic center. The result is an urban environment intervention that respects tradition while having a strong innovative intention, aimed at understanding and reinterpreting the substance of the urban scene and adapting it to contemporary functions and languages.
The choice of pre-painted aluminum panels arises from the intention to establish a harmonious dialogue and coherent integration with the urban and landscape context. The building, overlooking a tree-lined avenue of beautiful plane trees, uses the metallic cladding as a material and perceptive device, capable of interacting with the changing chromatic tones of the foliage and with the variations of light throughout the day. The façade transforms continuously: thanks to the reflective and iridescent properties of the material, it takes on different shades according to natural light and the surrounding environment, generating a dynamic effect that attenuates the volumetric impact and reinforces the relationship between architecture and landscape.
The building has been certified in the highest energy class expected in Italy for new construction (A4), achieved through a very effective envelope and a highly efficient heating and cooling system. Insulations, walls and windows have been designed to minimize heat loss and to maximize solar gains in winters.To complete the sustainability of the site, a photovoltaic system has been installed on the roof and it covers the most of electrical needs of the residential units.
The project envisaged the demolition of a building of little value and the realization of a five-storey construction, divided into eight residential units, with private gardens on the first floor and large terraces on the upper levels, authentic extensions of the domestic environment. The design of the parapets has been studied to give the façades a special vibration that highlights the solid parts against a darker and less illuminated background. The effect gives a sort of suspension to the most external terraces, which appear light, almost floating. This lightness is indispensable to conceal as much as possible an imposing building volume, considerably extended towards the external spaces and looming over the main road. The interiors of the dwellings benefit from very vivid and intense natural light, which enhances the spaces in harmony with a contemporary lifestyle, directly connected to the external areas of the house. The large glazed openings optimize the natural illumination of the interiors, emphasizing the close relationship between indoor and outdoor spaces.
TECO+ partners is an architectural firm based in Bologna, consisting of 6 partners and a team of 30 collaborators, architects, civil engineers and designers.
The firm designs residential, scholastic and sports buildings and complexes, as well as offices and productive establishments in Italy and abroad.
The environmental quality of projects arises from study and experience of techniques for the use of renewable energies, bio-architecture construction systems, biocompatible materials and passive climate control.
TECO+partners designs residential buildings that integrate the public dimension of sociality with the private dimension of the habitation with great attention to feelings and transformations of contemporary habitation. The projects study different modalities where the exterior communicates with the interior via the expressive capacity of the solids and voids, the terraces and the building volumes, the transparency of the materials and the potency of the gradations of color.
