01 Social housing in Quadraro

Laboratorio di progettazione 1 | Prof. Fabrizio Toppetti | 2014 Quartiere Tuscolano | Rome

Individual project

My first project experience is both urban and architectural. It consists in a social housing project in a 7 000 mq area in Quadraro, district of the eastern Roman suburbs, characterized by the most important building experiments in Rome in 1950 by architects Libera, Muratori, De Renzi. Inspired by the nearby Adalberto Libera’s “Unità d’abitazione orizzontale”, the project proposes a low typology (terraced houses) and a high typology (the Italian typical “casa a ballatoio”) that dominates the square. The common elements (walls in terraced houses and balcony in “casa a ballatoio”) slide, becoming typological breaking elements, so they reinterpret the Quadraro planimetric heterogeneity. In this fragmentary system, the greenery is in balance with the built environment and creates undefined spaces between public and private thresold.