Social housing in Lecce "Ex Galateo", IT

"EX GALATEO" SOCIAL HOUSING

 

location: Lecce, Italy

year: 2020

status: Competition

client: Comune di Lecce
program: Social housing, retail, culture

GFA: 11600 m2

budget: 14.45 MI euro

team: Lucia Zamponi, Filippo Nanni

 

collaborators:

Architecture / AGENCIA

 

The reinterpretation and restoration of the original architectural elements of the former sanatorium A. Galateo define a spatial grammar that makes the building contemporary and functional, able to host different uses and functions.
The typology of the sanatorium - double T with the two north and south wings dedicated to the patients and the central pole intended for services - is reinterpreted by dividing the building into three wings, south-east, south-west and north, dedicated to housing, a podium shared with the collective and public functions, a "tower" to the south with cultural and entrepreneurial vocation connected to research and work space located in the axis transversal audience.
The aim of the project is to regenerate a space, abandoned for years, to give it back to the city, making it a place of living but also enriching it with spaces for collective activities, thus making it partially accessible to the public. The different spaces, residential and non-residential, are united from a vision of sharing, innovation and sustainability.

 

The ambitions of the project can be summarized as follow:

• heritage-friendly transformation that returns an accessible and efficient building;
• creation of a new urbanity understood as a dynamic balance between private spaces, spaces collectives and public spaces;
• definition of an integrated but autonomous building-system for a functional management of its set off;
• definition of a north-south axis which conveys the flows of the public from the city center to the park;
• social and programmatic mixité:
• diversified residential offer extended by shared services;
• offer of open spaces to the city (public and commercial) whose potential users could be the residents, the neighbourhood, students, tourists and park visitors;
• creation of a new polarity for the city;
• technological innovation and eco-sustainable approach.

 

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