Concept
The project area is located on the outskirts of the city of Florence, more precisely in the Rovezzano area which overlooks via Rocca Tedalda. The intervention concerns the redevelopment of a part of the territory currently destined for social housing managed by Case SPA. More specifically, the demolition of 6 buildings and the renovation of the remaining five plants are planned.
The most interesting component of the existing central buildings of Rocca Tedalda is the one that represents a real experiment from a typological and formal point of view; the design of the side towers, on the other hand, was a total failure, above all with regard to the relationship with the city.
Of origin discussed, the word balcony was compared to the low Latin term ballatorium (betacistic alteration of vallatorium), taken in turn from the verb vallare, with the meaning of girdle, entrench, fortify (with palisades, fences, as evidenced by the Latin vallus , or palisade, fence, bastion)."This etymology evidently alludes to the architectural composition of the balcony, where the fence in question is nothing more than the parapet that surrounds the passage."
In the Rocca Tedalda project, lightness is the key to this element that makes up all buildings limited only by a glass parapet and adjustable metal screens.
The closure of the street front is one of the issues encountered in the critical areas, it has been resolved with the positioning of a building that extends along the main road.
The solution adopted, combined with the possibility of creating a green area that would introduce the Florence Rovezzano stop, not only gave the opportunity to open access to the railway but also to make permeability function.
This was possible thanks to the exploitation of the bands delimited by the old and new buildings; both pedestrian and cycle paths leading to the park are placed on them, as well as equipped areas for play or relaxation that can be used by home users.
For the connecting tunnel that crosses the railway, a system of consecutive strips has been designed that do not allow writers to degrade the pedestrian crossing.
The walls of the path were buffered with diffused light headlights with a variable chromatic variation.
The sound impact of the passage of the trains is mitigated by the presence of a metal barrier which, given the shape, also acts as a shelter for users on the dock.
