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The new Lunch Room of "Ex-GIL"

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The new lunch room of "Ex-GIL"

Roland Baldi Architects

PHOTOS
Oskar Da Riz (13)

YEAR
2017

LOCATION
Bolzano, Italy

TYPE
Educational › Other

The project is located within the headquarter of Eurac Research Center on Druso Avenue in Bozen, known as "ex-GIL".

The new Lunch Room of \
© Oskar Da Riz
The new Lunch Room of \
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The structure was designed by architects Mansutti and Miozzo, and was constructed in the years 1934 to 1936 in order to accommodate youth females enrolled in GIL (Gioventù Italiana del Littorio).

Following the war, the building, renamed "Ex-GIL", was used for different purposes, from supermarket to pornographic cinema, and was abandoned over time to a slow degradation.

The new Lunch Room of \
© Oskar Da Riz
The new Lunch Room of \
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In 1995 an international architectural competition for the transformation of the ensemble into the new headquarters for Eurac Research was announced.

The jury decided unanimously for the design of Graz-based architect Klaus Kada, who integrated the building which is under the protection of cultural assets with modern rational and transparent glass intersections.

The new Lunch Room of \
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The new Lunch Room of \
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In 2015 the Bozen-based architecture office Roland Baldi Architects together to architect Elena Casati won the tender for the construction of a lunch room under the auditorium from 1930s.

The Pompeii-red Auditorium, part of the original building complex, has the shape of an oval cylinder and is completed in the roof area by a dome which rests on the pillars of the exterior wall.

The new Lunch Room of \
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The new Lunch Room of \
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The project was intended to create a new volume between the high columns, in order to minimize the impact on pre-existence.

To this end, it is decided to build a glazed facade on the inner wire of the second line of pillars.

The new Lunch Room of \
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The new Lunch Room of \
© Oskar Da Riz

Even in the interior space, Roland Baldi Architects has decided to make minimal interventions. The floor was built in medium finishing polished concrete, the sloping ceiling with an acoustic plaster in Pompeian red, which corresponds to the original color.


The new Lunch Room of \
© Oskar Da Riz
The new Lunch Room of \
© Oskar Da Riz


The new Lunch Room of \
The new Lunch Room of \
The new Lunch Room of \
The new Lunch Room of \
© Oskar Da Riz

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