The University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ has issued a call for tenders regarding the executive design, safety coordination and execution phases, and project management of the construction of a university campus consisting of residences, sports facilities and related services in Viale dell’Università, adjacent to the Aurelian Walls.
As group leader, we were awarded the services in a group that also included our colleagues from Comma Engineering, Melita Pennisi and Salvatore Palillo. Once again, the firm demonstrated a great propensity for teamwork in partnership with other professionals and companies. The objective of the service was to make the work inherited from the final project executable, engineering it in all its parts and studying its safety profiles.
Our intervention
The new University Campus, which will be built following the demolition of the existing buildings, is designed to be on two floors, with single and double rooms to accomodate a total of 200 beds. The main building is designed around a courtyard equipped with greenery and seating, keeping the existing trees in the centre. On the side of the Aurelian Walls, the courtyard is detached from the ground by eight light steel pillars, and two extensions of the residential areas continuing on either side. The façade of the building becomes the stylistic feature of the intervention, designed with natural terracotta slats of different sections that fray until they dissolve at the edges of the building. The interior of the building will be dry construction, with steel structures and fibre cement or plasterboard infill. On the roof will be a large green space, partially shaded, which through transparent parapets will be in sync with the gardens below.
In terms of distribution, on the ground floor, in addition to the rooms, there is a cafeteria, a study room and a laundry room. The corridors on the upper floor are distributed by two internal stairwells and lit by zenithal light. The complex also includes a garden shaded by attractive Cercis siliquastrum (‘Judas trees’), two multi-sports fields and a student services building that will be renovated.
Object of intervention
New student residence at Uniroma1 University
Performances– Stancanelli Russo Associati
Executive design
Safety coordination during the design phase
Client
University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Year
2020 – tender for works being prepared
Design technology
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
Partner
Comma Engineering
Melita Pennisi
Salvatore Palillo
Images by
Giulia La Ganga Vasta
