Multi aged community center
location
Poggio Picenze, L’Aquila
type
architecture, outdoor spaces design, interior design, graphic design
area
229 sqm (interior), 57 sqm (outdoor), 2882 sqm (garden)
state
completed
date
2011 – 2015
client
Associazione Nazionale Italiana Cantanti, Comune di Poggio Picenze, La Provincia di Como, Sondrio, Lecco e Varese, un Salvadanaio per l’Abruzzo
team
Elisa Burnazzi
graphic design
Elisa Burnazzi, Mattia Micheletti
photos
Carlo Baroni, Roberta Pizzi
videos
AbruzzoWeb
Multi aged community center: quiet determination
When it was asked to our architecture studio in Trento to design the architecture and interior design of a post-earthquake center in Abruzzo, we designed not only with our head, but also with our heart. This building, which has been open to the public since its inauguration, has been financed with private funds, donations from Italian readers and money raised with a football match “Partita del Cuore” played by Nazionale Cantanti. To honour the courage and the teamwork of all the actors involved, clients, financiers, architects, companies, when The Architectural Review published it, they entitled the article: “Quiet determination”.
Multy aged community centre: a dream to realize
The new Poggio Picenze multi-aged community centre was born to replace the old structure of social aggregation, located in the historical centre and made unusable by the earthquake of April 6, 2009.
To the Administration’s appeal have promptly responded different realities including the Associazione Nazionale Cantanti, the group La Provincia Editoriale and the Salvadanaio per l’Abruzzo, while the construction company, the supplier firms and the designers are working reducing the fees.
Multy aged community centre: our project, between architecture, interior design, outdoor spaces design, graphic design and construction.
After a first draft of the project, which included the location of the building in the place of the concrete pitch of the city park, in 2011 the city council has situated the community center in a neighboring sports area near the entrance, that is replacing the earthquake logistics coordination camp.
The design intent of the new complex is to revise the work the “Grande Cretto” Burri, performed in Gibellina between 1985 and 1989, following the earthquake of Belice (1968) and realized in white concrete. The new center aggregation retains many characteristics of the previous project, but also conveying new ones. To the desire to build a building connected to the landscape of Abruzzo has been added the value of memory. In 2011, two years having passed after the earthquake, a period in which the Italian civil society has gradually forgotten what happened in Abruzzo, the zig-zag volumes want to somehow evoke ideas of cracks, in remembrance of the earthquake occurred. At the same time, as the building is covered in wood and in green, the project aims at giving a positive value to nature, inspiring in its users a renewed confidence in it and man; kids and the elderly join together in a building integrated in the green, receiving the chance to have new hope in the future. The roof is covered with grass plots, and green are also the facades thanks to a series of colored wires on which some vines climb, which are expected to be taken care of by the Centre’s users.
The Community center is capable of hosting about 130 people from both the town of Poggio Picenze and from the neighboring villages. The Center is built on one level only and covers about 240 square meters net internal: there are the entrance hall, two multipurpose rooms, the library with Internet stations, one music room, and, besides, services, a store room and both open and covered spaces. Externally, the walls are coated with natural larch wood, wood that has been used for doors and windows. The main closed volume is sided by two other open buildings for parking four-wheeled and two-wheeled vehicles, made of steel structures, larch wood-paneled, also covered in colored wires to support vines.
Publications
2023
ARCHALP
Politecnico di Torino
Italia
2022
ARCHITETTE ITALIANE
Ordine degli Architetti O.A.P.P.C della provincia di Teramo
Italia
2019
ABRUZZO. UNA REGIONE IN CAMMINO FRA MEMORIA E FUTURO
Carsa Edizioni
Italia
2018
Il Resto del Carlino Rimini
Poligrafici Editoriale
Italia
Riabitare l’Italia
Progetti Donzelli
Italia
I Small Building 3
Archiworld
Corea del Sud
Archiworld
Archiworld
Corea del Sud
Domus
Quodlibet
Italia
Arcipelago Italia. Padiglione Italia alla Biennale Architettura 2018
Quodlibet
Italia
2017
Yearbook 1 (T1)
(Selezione di Architetti italiani partecipanti all’edizione 2016 del Premio Architetto italiano e Giovane talento dell’architettura)
LetteraVentidue, CNAPPC
Italia
Destination Architecture
(The essential guide to 1000 contemporary buildings)
Phaidon
Regno Unito
Arketipo
Tecniche Nuove
Italia
Abitare
RCS MediaGroup
Italia
DI Architecture & Design – Shangai Magazine
CCTP
Cina
2016
German Design Award Catalogue
German Design Council
Germania
Holz-Zentralblatt
DRW-Verlag Weinbrenner
Germania
Iconic Awards Catalogue
German Design Council
Germania
La Provincia
Sesaab
Italia
Corriere del Trentino
RCS MediaGroup
Italia
Corriere del Trentino
RCS MediaGroup
Italia
Vallkommen Till Framtiden
Virserums Art Museum
Svezia
The Architectural Review
EMAP Publishing Limited
Gran Bretagna
Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture Elisa Burnazzi – Burnazzi Feltrin Architects
The Architectural Review
Gran Bretagna
Corriere del Trentino
RCS MediaGroup
Italia
2015
Premium
Edizioni Inmagazine
Italia
AbbruzzoWeb
Enfasi
Italia
Corriere del Trentino
RCS MediaGroup
Italia
La Provincia
Sesaab
Italia
2013
La ricostruzione dopo la catastrofe da spazio attesa a spazio pubblico
INU Edizioni
Italia
Awards
2018
Premi In/Architettura 2020
InArch e Ance con Archilovers
Italia
Ad’A, Architetture dell’Adriatico
Agenzia per l’Architettura d’Abruzzo e CARSA the thinking company
Italia
2018
16. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura di Venezia, Arcipelago Italia
MiBACT e Mario Cucinella
Italia
2017
German Design Award
German Design Council
Germania
2016
Build Architecture Awards
Build
Regno Unito
Iconic Awards
German Design Council
Germania
World Architecture Festival Award
EMAP
Regno Unito
Architecture of Necessity
Virserum Art Museum
Svezia
Events
2020
Premi In/Architettura 2020
InArch e Ance con Archilovers
Web
2018
16. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura di Venezia, Arcipelago Italia
MiBact e Mario Cuccinella
Padiglione Italia all’Arsenale, Venezia, Italia
2017
Centro di aggregazione giovani e anziani
Prof. Giuseppe Scaglione, Università degli studi di Trento
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale e Meccanica, Trento, Italia
German Design Award
German Design Council
Musem Angewandte Kunst, Francoforte sul Meno, Germania
German Design Award
German Design Council
Forum of the Frankfurt Exhibition Grounds, Francoforte sul Meno, Germania
2016
Architecture of Necessity
Fiera Io Casa e Ordine degli Architetti PPC della Provincia di Trento
Quartiere Fieristico, Riva del Garda, Italia
World Architecture Festival
EMAP Publishing Limited
Arena Berlin, Berlino, Germania
Iconic Awards
German Design Council
BMW Welt, Monaco di Baviera, Germania
Architecture of Necessity
Virserum Konsthall
Virserum, Svezia
2015
Inaugurazione del Centro “Alena Ajrulai, Loris Cialfi e Valbona Osmani”
La Provincia, Associazione Nazionale Italiana Cantanti, Comune di Poggio Picenze
Centro di aggregazione sociale per giovani e anziani, Poggio Picenze, Italia
2013
La ricostruzione dopo la catastrofe: da spazio in attesa a spazio pubblico
Biennale dello Spazio Pubblico
Facoltà di Architettura Roma Tre, Roma, Italia