CASTELNUOVO CIVIC CENTER Architectural Construction final class Year 2010/2011 score 30L/30
The new civic center lies next to the prefabricated housing units set up at the foot of the hill of Castelnuovo, a small village hit by the earthquake in Abruzzo. The center, three main buildings with central distribution and a technical tower, hosts different public functions: a multi-purpose hall, a large recreational space and the church, as well as a bar, the venue for the association “Rebuilding Castelnuovo” and a small medical center. To accommodate this functional diversity, spaces are flexible and transformable, also thinking about a future life of the building with different uses, once the town will be rebuilt. During the design process, brought to the executive level, attention was paid to the use of innovative and light technologies, in particular wood, chosen for the structural panels and cladding.
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