Environmental and energy retrofitting of the Flower Market in Rome | Andrea Albanese

The aim of this intervention was to reactivate a piece of urban text at the moment decayed because of the bad situation of the 60es Flower Market abandoned in a sort of long agony for a period of 20 years. After a deep analysis of the sorrounding functions, the weaknesses, the strenghts and the opportunities of urban and social conditions (to several scales), it is been proposed a selective demolition of the inner walls in order to reorganize volumes and to convert the function in a Digital Culture Center. So the elderly population of this zone (the over 45 age are >50%) can be alphabetized and partecipate to the cultural and micro-macro economic growth of the city. After the restore of the old perimetrical structures, the part ex novo of the building it is been thought through a pure bioclimatic approach, centred on generative morphogenesis. In this way each part of the new building got a precise role and it adapts to its specific function. The skin of the envelope it adapts to the interior needs realizing a like organism structure where the changing is continous and topologic. The insertion of the bioclimatic courtyard has lead to study an olystic ways to realize the passive strategies.