“Portonaccio” area Masterplan
Rome, Italy
study 2020
program: project for the drafting of the master plan of the entire Portonaccio area including a: building renovation and change of use, from production to offices, with the construction of the BNL campus and functional recovery shed building and neighboring. The project includes the construction of public parking lots with a total area of 2,560.21 square meters.
> area:
– total area: 25.000 m2
– gross built area: 6.900 m2
client: BNL Sistemi Immobiliari
Alfonso Femia / Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia
images: ©AF517 & Diorama
Rome, Italy
study 2020
program: project for the drafting of the master plan of the entire Portonaccio area including a: building renovation and change of use, from production to offices, with the construction of the BNL campus and functional recovery shed building and neighboring. The project includes the construction of public parking lots with a total area of 2,560.21 square meters.
> area:
– total area: 25.000 m2
– gross built area: 6.900 m2
client: BNL Sistemi Immobiliari
Alfonso Femia / Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia
images: ©AF517 & Diorama
“The element of detachment from tradition and ironic reversal of the theme, is constituted, in the project, by the fluctuation effect, on the base of the double-height windows, of elements with a strongly material aspect such as the sheds, with blind walls that will be covered with small-format porcelain tiles, with a three-dimensional pattern.” AF
The urban regeneration project involves two intervention areas which require specific procedural approaches. In fact, while the prevailing part, classified as “Urban Level Public Services,” allows interventions in direct mode, the strip parallel to the railway park, included in the “Tiburtina Station Area Redevelopment Plan,” involves additional steps.
Area 1 of the intervention area
It includes two buildings subject to intervention, one of which, is the “shed” building. The remaining part of the area is organized partly as green space, with the planting of 51 trees as compensation for those cut down for safety reasons, and partly as ground-level parking, with a total area of about 5,080 square meters.
Building “A,” former workshop
The arrangement is characterized by the archetypal elements of industrial architecture that strongly connote the appearance of the existing building. The project also clears the original core of the building of superfetation and emphasizes its constituent elements.
The finish of the exterior walls and the choice of colors are influenced by a twentieth-century industrial aesthetic. The triangular elements of the double-height sheds recall the archetypal element of industrial architecture of the last century. The color palette, is oriented to a palette that ranges from dust gray to ochre and general earth tones. The element of detachment from tradition and ironic reversal of the theme, is constituted, in the project, by the fluctuation effect, on the base of the double-height windows, of elements with a strongly material aspect such as the sheds, with blind walls that will be covered with small-format porcelain tiles, with a three-dimensional pattern.
In order to make the work spaces compatible with each other (a call center and an education center reserved for BNL employees), the volume has been emptied, creating a large central courtyard, designed to give air and light to the work spaces but also to provide the building complex with a pleasant and highly representative environment.
Area 2 of the intervention area
The project deals with the construction of a ground-level parking lot and partial landscaping of an area located along the western perimeter of the former wagon-lits complex.
It is intended to provide green areas with the planting of low height shrub essences near the tracks that will act as a filter to the nearby railway, as well as a parking area of about 2,700 square meters for a total number of 77 parking spaces.
Area 1 of the intervention area
It includes two buildings subject to intervention, one of which, is the “shed” building. The remaining part of the area is organized partly as green space, with the planting of 51 trees as compensation for those cut down for safety reasons, and partly as ground-level parking, with a total area of about 5,080 square meters.
Building “A,” former workshop
The arrangement is characterized by the archetypal elements of industrial architecture that strongly connote the appearance of the existing building. The project also clears the original core of the building of superfetation and emphasizes its constituent elements.
The finish of the exterior walls and the choice of colors are influenced by a twentieth-century industrial aesthetic. The triangular elements of the double-height sheds recall the archetypal element of industrial architecture of the last century. The color palette, is oriented to a palette that ranges from dust gray to ochre and general earth tones. The element of detachment from tradition and ironic reversal of the theme, is constituted, in the project, by the fluctuation effect, on the base of the double-height windows, of elements with a strongly material aspect such as the sheds, with blind walls that will be covered with small-format porcelain tiles, with a three-dimensional pattern.
In order to make the work spaces compatible with each other (a call center and an education center reserved for BNL employees), the volume has been emptied, creating a large central courtyard, designed to give air and light to the work spaces but also to provide the building complex with a pleasant and highly representative environment.
Area 2 of the intervention area
The project deals with the construction of a ground-level parking lot and partial landscaping of an area located along the western perimeter of the former wagon-lits complex.
It is intended to provide green areas with the planting of low height shrub essences near the tracks that will act as a filter to the nearby railway, as well as a parking area of about 2,700 square meters for a total number of 77 parking spaces.