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The project is the result of a direct assignment following a feasibility study.The LIVE building is a residential complex in Eur district in Rome, which pays homage to the Palazzina, a building typology from the modern heritage of the eternal city. The main goal of the intervention has been to maintain the connection with the natural contest, while providing a contemporary and sustainable building inspiring by energy efficiency and living comfort
The building is positioned just off the street front and is predominantly east/west facing, thus giving ground floor flats large gardens, and offering each flat a double facing view from the living area. Large balconies with loggias and large windows help to create fluidity between the inside and the outside and to create a strong relationship with the outside nature typical of EUR, a garden city.
The project was inspired by the core principles of Active House: environmental sustainability, energy efficiency and living comfort. Specifically, the construction system ensures strong thermal inertia, a reduced speed air flow that regulates internal temperatures, a photovoltaic system on the roof that limits emissions into the atmosphere, and a domotic system that automatically regulates the internal temperature and controls the external curtains and sunblades.
The building has been inspired by the typology of “palazzine Romane”, very high quality buildings that have been developed between the 30s to 60s. The “palazzina” is known for the smartness of the inside spaces, the generosity of the outdoor balconies and the refinement of details.The project consisted of a ‘demolition and reconstruction’ procedure and changing its intended use, has 7 floors above ground, with 12 flats including three-room, four-room and penthouse flats.The project was inspired by the core principles of Active House: environmental sustainability, energy efficiency and living comfort.
It combines luxury and simplicity, innovation in technology and tradition in the choice of materials
IT’S is an architecture firm founded in 2016 by Alessandro Cambi, Francesco Marinelli and Paolo Mezzalama with offices in Rome, Geneva and Paris. They were ranked among the top 10 up-and-coming firms by the French Ministry of Culture in 2008 and winners in 2014 of the Young Architecture Talent award, of the BIM & DIGITAL AWARD in 2017 and 2023, of IMGP 2 in 2019 and C40 – Reinventing Cities in Rome in 2023.
IT’S works on projects at various scales from urban planning to design. The principal completed and ongoing projects include the redevelopment of Piazza dei Cinquecento and the urban space of Termini station in Rome; the renovation of the former school of architecture in Nanterre on the Pole Leonard de Vinci university campus in Paris; the renovation of the former INPS headquarters in Rome; the new headquarters of the MSA – Mutualité Sociale Agricole – in Bordeaux; the LIVE housing building in EUR, Rome; the new FOROF centre for contemporary art by Giovanna Caruso Fendi in Rome.
