New Library In Former Industrial Area
NEW LIBRARY
IN FORMER INDUSTRIAL AREA
Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia
ARCHITECTS
Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia
ARCHITECTS IN CHARGE
Alfonso Femia
SERVICES ENGINEERING
ProgeTec s.n.c. Via Fontevivo
DESIGN TEAM
Alfonso Femia, Simonetta Cenci, Daniele Di Matteo, Domenica Laface, Carola Picasso, Alessandra Quarello, Maria Michela Scala, Ilaria Sisto
PROGRAM
Redevelopment of the former Fitram industrial area into a library in La Spezia
MANUFACTURERS
iGuzzini, Casalgrande Padana
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
FOR Engineering Architecture
LANDSCAPE DESIGN
5+1AA, Alfonso Femia AF*design
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
ProgeTec s.n.c. Via Fontevivo
CLIENT
City of La Spezia
GEOTECHNICS
Enrico Verrando Via Tanini
GEOLOGY
Enrico Verrando Via Tanini
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
Alfonso Femia with 5+1AA (now Ateliers(s) Alfonso Femia)
FIRE SAFETY
Studio Russo Via G. Amati
GEOTECHNICS AND GEOLOGY
eol. Enrico Verrando Via Tanini, 130 - 16133 Genova (GE)
PROJECT MANAGERS
Stefania Bracco, Ilaria Sisto
COLLABORATORS
Daniela Checchin, Roxana Carugar, Michele Nicastro, Gianmatteo Ferlin
PHOTOGRAPHS
Luc Boegly, Stefano Anzini
AREA
4500.0 m2
YEAR
2017
LOCATION
La Spezia,Italy
CATEGORY
Library
Text description provided by architect.
The proposed intervention is the creation of a new urban "center", propulsive and functional according to the will of the Administration to recreate a place that provides meeting spaces, reading and entertainment.
The program includes the creation of a living space in which to host a small auditorium, a reading area for children, the administrative centre, and the offices for the library in addition to the archives and the rooms dedicated to the book reading and consultation.
The idea of this challenging but fascinating project comes from the belief that reading and culture if identified with a dedicated place, can become an opportunity for growth, training, socialization.
The project was immediately thought as a device of connection and sharing, of perception and rediscovery.
Our intention was not the one of an overlapping abuse, to go alongside by denying, but to report the pre-existence, by inserting the interior with the exterior, of the urban landscape with the territory.
Everything is developed according to a grammar of design that emphasizes the identity of the individual parts and the relationship between them with radical honesty: the relationship with matter, the enhancement of the main characters in her, from the independence of interventions designed as "actions" in space and for the space, the "architectural promenade" that will accompany the use of this space as a discovery of existing buildings and their context.
