Milan 2016
St. Febronia Research Center
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In Corso Garibaldi, in a lumpy and silent lot, lies the abandoned mass of the Conservatory of Santa Febronia, oppressed by the most recent and saturated construction with unimpeded spontaneous vegetation.The project proposes the recovery of this ancient artefacts and the conversion of part of the ground floor of the adjacent building.
The latter will host a research center at the Veterinary Medicine Department of the State University, in the simultaneous recipients of the aviary within the former conservatory. Exploiting the double height of this environment facing the Course, a large entrance defined by a wall painted intertwined, and its mirror, which looks at the aura, entirely glazed, identifies with the place of the encounter. From this lobby all the other spaces are distributed: from the glazed wall you can access the aviary directly through a gangway, while the interior of the insulae finds the spaces of concentration on the ground and those of the confrontation on mezzanine.
A spiral staircase serves the hallway on the inner space and from which you can appreciate the luxuriant garden surrounding and isolating the artifact
The project proposal also intends to take the premises to make the aviary and its garden an urban oasis that at the discretion of the department can be periodically accessible for educational purposes to schools.
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project by Matteo Morelli, Leonardo Falascone, Federico Gariboldi
