SCUOLA COLLETTIVITÀ.

Site development

Train

Highway

Pedestrian routes

Mountain trails

Property distribution

Natural ground (Residential housing)

Artificial asphalt (Industry, trade, parking area)

Schools

Water

Private farmland

Public green space

River

Analysing the weather and climate is crucial in understanding how the building can be inhabited all year round. Calolziocorte experiences significant variations in both temperature, rainfull and wind speed over the year with hot summers and colder winters and the building will need to be adapted and insulated to ensure it can be inhabited.

The warm season lasts for 3.3 months, from June 3 to September 11, with an average daily high temperature above 22°C. The hottest month of the year in Calolziocorte is July, with an average high of 26°C and low of 17,5°C The cold season lasts for 3.5 months, from November 19 to March 3, with an average daily high temperature below 9,5°C. The coldest month of the year in Calolziocorte is January, with an average low of -1°C and high of 5,5°C. Rain falls throughout the year in Calolziocorte. The month with the most rain in Calolziocorte is May, with an average rainfall of 4.4 inches. The month with the most snow in Calolziocorte is January, with an average snowfall of 1.8 inches.

1940s-50s AD

Scoula Elementare is built in 1969, following an influx in residential construction as industry continues to grow in the area and general population increases, causing more demand for public services. It is expanded between 1976-1980.

December 10th, Calolziocorte awarded city status by Decree of the President of the Republic,

The focus of the ‘Commune di Calolziocorte’ is on expanding the city. In recent years following the Covid-19 crisis the housing crisis has been accelerated, and the town is facing demand for social and subsidised housing. More and more people are struggling to buy homes or keep up with rising rents in the city. Commuting is becoming a more attractive solution. The vision for Calolziocorte is perhaps as an affordable and vibrant commuter town as people desire to move out of cities like Milan.

Understanding the environment in Calolziocorte

Obvious are the remains of the Roman presence from the imperial period. Crossed by the foothills road that crossed the river Adda to Brescia, Bergamo and Como with the bridge of Olginate, which dates back to the third century AD, the settlement of Calolzio gained importance by finding in this road resource the reason for its development.

Besides the numerous sarcophagi with hinged lids and a small necropolis found in the locality of La Gerra, the discovery of the sacred marble Nachapsis dedicated to Diana deserves special attention. She was goddess of the hunt, the woods and the moon, found in the parish church of Lorentino dating from the first and second centuries AD.

In 1274, Napoleone della Torre conquered the Valle San Martino and its capital. In those years, the power of the noble feudal family of the Benaglio was strong on Calolzio. This family was, among other things, the owner of numerous castles and an ally of the Torriani in the anti-visa key. Among the numerous military and political events that followed this tragic period of internal struggles, one recalls the battle of Campo Cerese (1398) between the Guelphs of Calolzio and the Ghibellines of Olginate.

The strategic position and the presence of important railway crossings favoured the development of numerous industrial settlements in Calolziocorte, especially in the 1920s. Remember the “Sali di Bario” factory, known by all Calolziesi as “Fabricù”. In handicrafts, the artisanal production of agricultural tools and metalworking are widespread and well-known.

In these areas, there were contradictory processes of production and appropriation of space with the coexistence of small historic nuclei, large housing estates, industrial plants, self-promoted housing developments by the migrants of the 1950s and 1960s (coree), and shrinking green and agricultural areass

Also impressive is the improvement in the provision of dwellings with basic facilities: from 30% in 1951 to 99.88% in 2001. But the most important change that has occurred is in tenure regime. Homeownership tripled its share, jumping from 26.3% in 1951 to 74.3% in 2011. The picture, however, is far from euphoric. Even if housing densities have declined and housing conditions have improved, these have occurred in a context of economic crisis characterised by deterioration in employment opportunities

Since the housing reform introduced in 1971 (Law 865), responsibility for social housing has progressively passed from central to regional and local governments, with regional government being responsible for setting the objectives of social housing, and establishing regulations for management and funding.

In the beginning, large housing estates provided residences for domestic workers in skilled manual labour and white-collar employment related to the manufacturing industry. Skilled labourers were predominantly from the north-east of Italy, while unskilled labour was drawn from the south.