Centro Civico Noivoiloro
Special Mention at Premio Architetto italiano 2016.
Noivoiloro is a private no-profit Association for the care of the disabled persons.
Because of total lack of public funding, 80% of activities is organized to finance 20% for direct assistance to disabled people.
This has transformed it into the most important civic centre of the city in which a lot of activities are developed, from a cafe/ restaurant with professional kitchen, a theater and “open-air” feasts populated by thousands of people in summer, dance laboratory, graphic workshop, working activities, temporary residences and offices for re-education to the job.
In order to financial difficulties is thought as built by steps (upon completion of the masterplan will be constructed 2.600sqm on 10,000 of the lot), with big programmatic flexibility, and as a sort of patchwork, with different material in order to the contribution of private “friends” companies and factories.
Is located in a difficult environment in a predominantly industrial vocation, facing a “strip of loisir” with new urban functions related to entertainment.
The ground of excavation is maintained into the area and its modification becomes foundational for the project, drawing two large central open space for outdoor festivals and becoming green dunes as acoustic and visual barriers, to hide the surrounding industries, hosting people during the shows and cars on the parking slope.
Inside these dunes are placed the buildings that are conditioned by the positions of them; they are this last to be conditioned from the first ones, so much not to become necessary, also allowing a total vision during phases of construction and future additions.
The building has high programmatic complexity, in equilibrium among a concept of privacy and community. This way, every part of the building it is a concluded primary form.
At the same time, there is a common denominator, a sort of Dna that returns the idea of the community among the parts. The roof of the building produces a folding that repeats in all the buildings: in every part it assumes a different meaning and measure. This way, in the theater the shape of the roof means the breakup of the sound, in the restaurant it brings the difference of the level of the the ground, in another part makes domestic the figure of temporary house, finally in the laboratories it is the traditional shape of the shed.
The complex develops itself around three principal directions that are deformed in the third dimension.
The result is the architecture as exercise of the control of these geometries, that produce forms and that hosts functions.
In the roof of the theater every line is different and not orthogonal, neither in the plan, neither in the third dimension, except for the middle one
The stage opens on three parts, one to the inside and twice outside. On the part that leans out on the dance floor, the building under the ventilated wall in back-painted glass, as some Renaissance buildings, it has a carved out bench thought for the sitting of the "dames" waiting for the invitation to the dance by gentlemen.
In this game among to hide and to appear, the interface with the “strip of the loisir” on the principal road, is an image that produces mutable relationships. It appears and disappears with the reflexes of the light on the UGLAS in the different hours of the day. It born in the relationship with the movement of the cars that race fast on the road.
