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The aim of the competition was to project sheltered
swimming pools and a lakeside resort instead of the town ex-bathing establishment
of caldaro lake [BZ].
The project area is
11.900 m² and the estimated urbanistic volume 27.000 m³.
The lake of Caldaro
is located between vineyards, orchards and wood, about 20 km from Bolzano.
It
is the biggest natural lake of the Alto Adige area.
The aim of edk project
was made by 4 points:
Place preservation, respect and valorization of
its distinctive elements; function spaces quality, molteplicity, recognizability,
usability and management; movement road conditions, routes, accesses and
tranformability; firmness structure, materials and energy.
A partly
hypogean structure hides those functions which have a larger shape [swimming
pools and dressing-rooms], taking advantage of the natural difference in height
between the street of approach (105? M s.l.m.) and the lake (96.5 m s.l.m.). the
roof structure hosts the promenade and the panoramic belvedere on the lakeside
and its attractions, and, keeping heat and stabilizing roof thermic inertia, creates
a good environmental microclime.
The glass wall lake frontage blends with the
park. Buildings type and morphology are inspired by the built landscape and the
regional technics, through contemporariness.
The "masts", which signal the
entrance to the nodal points of the plant and act as landmarks, recall the presence
of the water stylizing the boat architecture. external lighting and information
points repeat, using different dimensions the theme introduced by the masts, as
well as the bathing-huts (inspired by the those made by fishermans) join creating
the bus stop shelter.
The lakeside entrance is a large open space which
changes into building through the glazed and double volume hall, acting like a
square and a promenade extension, permeable to many levels. Infact, the bar from
belvedere comes into the hall; the wall, which signals the structure is changing,
from the hall continues to the square and becomes the local products stand frontage;
the inner door is the glazed post which supports the overhanging offices building.
The
satellite functions are adjoining the main ones and are formally integratet with
them, strenghtening their meaning. Spaces have been thought to host many functions
and different users in the course of the day and the seasons.
A great importance
had been given to the routes, they should have been direct, characteristic, univocal
(public, private and service ones), one different from the other and always provided
with a plus value which wouldn't compel them to be just a passage way.
The
main structure, a pre-fabricated post-beam system in reinforced concrete, has
plugs made by two high density expanded polystyrene panels united and spaced by
iron frameworks which act as reinforcement of the concrete laid inside.
The
high heat insulator power of this material is assisted by a sequence of solar
collectors made by an external fir wood facing at the back of which are applied
spacer water-pipes which get warm at the sun.
Hall, recreation swimming pool
and connection to the beautyfarm building have a glulam and steel carrying structure
with a curtain wall plug.
solar cells are integrated in the double glass panels
(photovoltaic system). The glass has an anti-reflective facing which, not only
intercepts sunbeams, but also pulls down the loss of heat.
The wall panels
of the swimming pools consist of thick stainless steel slabs with a special hard
thermoresistant PVC layer permanently laminated to the steel by a unique process
of hot calendering. The swimming pools are furnished with a hidden gutter, conceived
on the basis of the finnish one, to enlarge the flooring surface.
The underground
level, holding all the systems, is a water-tight compartment made by reinforced
concrete on micro-bearing piles.
team:
edk® s.r.l. a multi-disciplinary design company
team
manager: Loris Perna [engineer]
art
direction: Luca di Filippo [designer]
project:
Luca di Filippo and Enrica Corzani [architect]
structures: Loris Perna
energy
and systems: Massimiliano Ferrante Carrante [engineer]
CAD surveryorship:
Roberto Saveri [technician]
edk® s.r.l.
via conca d'oro,
287
00141 rome, italy
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