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Città del Sole

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Città del Sole

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Dettaglio
Città del Sole

This creates a complex public space, rich in experience. The project is articulated over different levels, with commercial activities and the public library at ground level, offices on the first floor and public spaces on top of those. Three buildings are suspended above this public area – one containing offices and the other two for residential use. The residential buildings contrast in terms of their typology and external treatment. The first is a tower containing small and medium-sized flats, partially enclosed with a horizontal glass brise soleil. The second ‘villa’ building contains luxury duplex apartments and is clad with aluminium panels that provide flexible, adjustable sun shading and a playful, ever-changing envelope.

Labics Architetti
Labics Architetti
Labics was founded in 2002 by Maria Claudia Clemente and Francesco Isidori in Rome, Italy. The office works internationally at all scales in providing solutions to contemporary architectural and urban issues. A highly collaborative, research-based design method involves clients, stakeholders and various consultants from a wide range of fields from early on in the creative process. The approach towards architecture is very rigorous and based on a dense intertwinining between research, practice and teaching since the very beginning of the each process. The work of Labics is exhibited and published worldwide and has received numerous national and international awards. The practice was nominated for the Mies Van Der Rohe Awards with both the MAST and the Città del Sole projects.
Città del Sole

Città del Sole

Public space designed to integrate with the existing texture of the area. The different typologies of façade enclosures create a work of important aesthetic and sustainability value.

Project Specs

  • Location: Roma
  • Completed: 2016
  • Contractor: Parsitalia Srl
  • Photographer: Fernando Guerra
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Technology

Città del Sole

RESIDENTIAL:

Thermal break windows
Aluminium louvres
Unitised façade with glazed brise soleil

OFFICE AND RETAIL:

Stick c.w. system with structural window and external double skin with vertical aluminium brise soleil

Designed by

Labics Architetti Architects

Winning competition entry for the redevelopment of an urban area, including the transformation of an existing bus depot to integrate a mixture of uses including office, retail space and residential units.

This project is part of the Municipality of Rome’s initiative to redevelop a number of transport depots within the city in conjunction with local public transport authority ATAC.

This project is part of the Municipality of Rome’s initiative to redevelop a number of transport depots within the city in conjunction with local public transport authority ATAC. It involves the regeneration of a neighbourhood with a weak identity but with good growth potential due to its location at the edge of the city centre. Labics’ aim therefore was to create a new centre for the local community, but also to increase its profile as a place of transition with privileged access to the city centre. Public realm space is not seen as residual but is fully integrated with the built elements – so, for example, the basement space becomes the load-bearing structure for high level walkways as well as a pathway in itself.

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