Facades Are Superfluous

Facades Are Superfluous
Facades Are Superfluous

Video: Facades Are Superfluous

Video: Facades Are Superfluous
Video: Lakhta Center. The Spire 2024, March
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It is difficult to overestimate the significance of this event. Back in early 2010, Ma Yansong and his studio won a tender for the reconstruction of an administrative complex in the center of Rome on Via Boncompagni 71, and only now the revised project has been approved by the city authorities. The renovated building with a total area of about 20,000 m2 and a height of 28.5 m will accommodate 145 residential sections of a wide variety of layouts - from small studios to “city villas” - and an underground car park.

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The eight-story building of the 1970s adjoins the chapel built in the early 20th century, and together with it forms a closed rectangle with an inner courtyard. The facades of the building overlooks three streets at once, which the architects tried to use. They proposed to simply remove these facades, exposing the concrete structures, and close the interior spaces of the resulting "rack" with curved panoramic windows and arrange green zones on the formed ledges. The internal facade is planned to be taken away with a transparent metal "curtain", providing the necessary level of privacy and protecting the living quarters from the sun. The courtyard will also be modernized: a reservoir will appear in its center.

Виа Бонкомпаньи 71 – реконструкция © MAD Architects
Виа Бонкомпаньи 71 – реконструкция © MAD Architects
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The proposed ideas are fully consistent with the latest trends in European architecture with its attention to ecology, the quality of natural lighting, and open interaction with the environment. But it would not have been a MAD project, if some message “to hail and peace” was not read in the effective and inherently very correct decisions. Unquestioningly accepting the rules of the game, Ma Yansong absolutely changes their meaning, and the context of the “Great Rome” strengthens his statement many times over. In historical cities, Yansong believes, the human principle is reliably hidden behind massive facades, and only by removing them can modern life be incorporated into the urban fabric. We will find out how much he succeeded in this in 2017 - when the project will be implemented.

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