Our intervention is part of the heart of the Old Port of Trieste, whose regeneration includes the redevelopment of existing buildings, the creation of a system of primary and secondary urbanization infrastructures, the development of public spaces with the creation of a linear park.
This project to redevelop the port warehouses was born from the desire to merge the various regional headquarters located in several sites in the city, to optimize their real estate assets and all their office spaces.
The buildings to be redeveloped have architectural and technical characteristics inherited from the port infrastructures but also from the German civil engineering of the time (metal gallery, rolled steel pillars, concrete beams and steel profiles).
Each building is a large complex whose four floors are set back from the pillars with raised floors, covered steps. The top floor offers a modern mechanical elevation system.
The roof has two aspects: natural elements (green roof) and technical installations (photovoltaic panels).
In order to improve the energy and environmental characteristics of existing buildings, without however harming the historical and cultural heritage required by these listed buildings, the flat roofs welcome new energy and ecological elements, real passive protections against solar radiation. This allows the creation of opaque and transparent layers in dialogue with the sea, thus providing a central backbone with bars/restaurants completing the outdoor space made up of terraces overlooking the port and the city.