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The new town hall:

one form - two elements.

…a new town hall, where will be located all the institutional and political offices, all the town offices, the new hall for the town council…a square with the role of civic center and aggregation point for the community of Santa Marinella…"

On the north side, the main street, via Aurelia, delimit the area of the project and, in correspondence of the new town hall, it is widened so to become a square: a "focal point", a new episode in the urban tissue.

The new town hall is located perpendicularly to the main street, frees the space in contact with it and its transparence lets the public life penetrate inside it: in this way, a dialogue, an interaction, a unity are created between the built space and urban open space.

Regarding its context, the programmatic issues and the future functions, the project consists of a building composed from two volumes: two blocks connected from light bridges, floating in an empty space, three floors high, which cuts and give light to the interior of the building.

The first volume, on the north side, is higher and dominates the square; the second volume, on the south side, is connected with the park and is oriented towards the see.

The facades, thought following the orientation, are of two types: one completely open, glazed, equipped of a sun shading system made of metallic perforated blades which allow a perfect control of the daylight and an optimal bioclimatic result; the other one more closed, formed from a white reinforced concrete wall, cut from strip windows designed with an alternate rhythm.

Architects:

Arch. ALESSANDRA MACCHIONI

with

MIGUEL ALONSO FLAMARIQUE (Architect)

ANA SOFIA DOS SANTOS (Coll.)

FRANCISCO XAVIER SERRAS (Coll.)

Client:

CITY OF SANTA MARINELLA,

Major FRANCO BORDICCHIA

Building surface:

m² 5000+5000

Surface of the area:

m² 8300

Total volume:

m³ 18.000 f.t.

Date of the competition:

April 2004

Date of beginning of the definitive project:

Agoust 2004

Presumed date for beginning the construction:

2005

ALESSANDRA MACCHIONI ARCHITECT

Born in Rome, 24.11.1975 and degree in Architecture from the "Università di Roma Tre" of Rome in 2002, final project: Residential buildings at Valco San Paolo, Roma. During the university studies: - Collaboration with the Department of

Design and Architectural Science of the "Università di Roma Tre"; - Collaboration in the site management of the renovation works of the German Academy in Villa Massimo, Roma; - Participation to the International Design Workshop "Continuity and Discontinuity / Urban voids in ancient urban tissue" (tutor Arch. Robert Venturi); - Participation to the Design Workshop "new existenz… new minimum".

(tutor Arch. Alfredo Paya Benedito). In Barcelona since january 2003, working in the office of the Architect Carlos Ferrater. Winner in june 2004 of the international Competition for the New Town Hall in Santa Marinella,. Opening of her own office in Roma, june 2004: most of the activity is actually dedicated to the design of the New Town Hall in Santa Marinella.