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Figure 4: Building A new solution: N-W view, h 48,17 plan and h 45,30 plan, S-E view
Starting from the premise that by relocating the services and commercial businesses to the main
levels of use, new opportunities could be created to give a new life to the suburbs and new urban
social economies of scale, it was proposed to locate, on the
pilotis level, private garages alternated with community facilities, such as the nursery school and
the centre for the elderly, which if directly included in the complex could simplify the daily management of many families. It’s not random that the primary school is one of the better aspects of
the entire suburb.
Moreover, from the space recovered from the demolition of some of the structures5 an underground garage was proposed with a green roofing area to create a garden which, other than
being a water reserve for the complex, could also create a responsible community to entrust the
upkeep of the green areas to.
In the suburb’s adjacent and empty lots, there is a proposal to build a new residential complex,
to accommodate the inhabitants presently residing in Building D, which, at the same time, could
render a social requalification of the whole area much easier. The new constructions would also
be an efficient tool to access funding for redevelopment projects.
However, the biggest problem to be tackled appears to be the energy performance of the complex’s buildings as, similar to all construction of that era, building energy efficiency was hardly
ever taken into account.
The choice was to modify the buildings with the necessary alterations but, at the same time,
maintain the original character of the project which, as mentioned, is an example of one of the
better Roman public constructions of the seventies. Therefore, a solution that would be less invasive visually, but important from a construction perspective was chosen, adopting two project
lines. In the case of the simplex apartments, where no renovation of the vertical enclosures was
forecasted, the existing walls were reinforced, while for the duplexes, which in the project were to
be greatly modified, a new perimeter enclosure was proposed. As far as the windows were con-

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