• Customer: Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti Aeroporto di Firenze
• Year: Under Construction
• City: Firenze
• ATI Joint venture: Italiana Costruzioni spa BIT Costruzioni Metalliche spa

The project for the extension of Florence International Airport envisages the creation of a system of works with the purpose of improving the quality of services in view of an increase in passenger numbers over the coming years. Specifically, the work concerns the extension of the arrivals terminal, with the construction of a new hall and check-in area, the functional rearrangement of the internal areas, the creation of a new commercial area and the preparation of a new baggage-handling system. The most important work is the construction of the new arrivals terminal, with the aim of creating a new architectural image derived from the encounter of technology with the environmental and geographic context of the city of Florence, with references to the formal language of contemporary architecture. The structure will be made entirely from steel, while the cladding of the exterior will vary. The landside façade will have a double-glazed wall with a system of screens that automatically adjusts to the level of solar radiation, while the lateral and airside will be prevalently opaque and clad with copper panels.

• Customer: Provincia di Monza e Brianza
• Year: Under Construction
• City: Monza

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND ATTENTION TO THE ENVIRONMENT
An efficient, flexible, technological building designed on a human scale, which satisfies the increasingly pressing need for eco-compatibility,  to house the Headquarters of the new Province of Monza and Brianza.

The project for the Headquarters of the Province of Monza and Brianza offers the Provincial Government an efficient, flexible, modern, technological building designed on a human scale, which satisfies the increasingly pressing need for eco-compatibility achieved with the use of eco-compatible building and energy conservation techniques. The building will be laid out with the main façade overlooking Via Montevecchia and will be characterised by three volumes symbolising the functions that they house: the entrance hall, characterised by the “cone” of the reception, the Administration building and the connected adjoining one that will house the Provincial Council. The complex will be arranged on four floors above ground for the tertiary functions and two underground floors to be used as car parks. The project pays particular attention to the aspects of bioarchitecture associated with the use of greenery and water, not only as urban furnishing elements, but also for natural climate control and the reduction of noise and environmental damage.

• Customer: Provveditorato alle OO.PP per il Lazio
• Year: 2002
• City: Roma
• ATI Joint venture: Italiana Costruzioni spa – Eugenio Ciotola spa

ROUND THE PIAZZA

A piazza becomes the distributional heart of a complex designed and constructed with the aim to offer the State Police a structure fully efficient from the logistical viewpoint but also well-integrated in the urban con- textual reference.

The project is the fruit of architectural and urban research accomplished through the elaboration of successive distribution and volume solutions. The complex comprises of a series of buildings, those principal on a pilotis plan (raised level), the secondary service buildings on a low level and is characterised by an large central space that, developing in a longitudinal sense, assumes the character of an Italian piazza from the architecture of the buildings surrounding it. The spatial continuity of the “main street” is physically interrupted by a maximum security wall. To reinforce the visual continuity, the design and colour of the pavement has been strengthened with the insertion of serena stone facings that project like ribbons under the buildings and contrast with the beige of the travertine and the red of the porfido. All the buildings that face on to the piazza characterise the “pilotis” plan by low arches and openings that delineate the space without limiting it, visually and perspectively rendering the permeable space. These arches were a precise architectural choice to utilise the buildings to full advantage. The pilasters, both full and empty make up part of the composition of the exteriors and stresses the expressive force. The vertical cut of the fittings create a shape that presents itself as a series of embattled or towered elements that evoke Italian medieval towns, the stairs climbing to the arch emphasize itʼs character. The buildings, all of different dimensions and shapes, are constructed of brick walls that confer unity to it all. The geometric design of the pavement that spreads between the two sides of the maximum security wall is easily visible both from the external stairs and the windows of the upper level.

• Customer: Provveditorato alle OO.PP. per il Lazio
• Year: 2005
• City: Frosinone
• ATI Joint venture: Italiana Costruzioni spa – Eugenio Ciotola spa

MANY FUNCTIONS IN THE SAME COMPLEX
Questura, Road Police, and other functions, are all housed in a complex composed of numerous building units connected by a platform for the purpose of the exchange and interchange of the functions.

The architectural complex is characterised by a multipurpose connection platform for the purpose of the exchange and interchange of functions. This includes all the building units that make up the complex, supplemented by supporting works, all placed within a ” Strong” wallwhich filters all the extraneous activities for the complexʼs maintenance and security conditions. Access to the complex is from Vado del Tufo Municipal Street and provides 2 distinct possibilities of entry/exit. The first, for vehicles, is reserved for personnel only, while the second, exclusively pedestrian, is for both workers and the public. Pedestrian access is conceived in a way that permits entry to the Road Police building and to the level of the platform. This is the general connection for all the foreseeable uses as well as the distributive crossroad of the paths. The platform is characterised by a connecting staircase with elevator that finishes at a long covered walkway. This walkway, in reticulated metal, distributes the pedestrian paths towards the Road Police building and to the Questura edifice, and develops in an elaborate and dimensionally differentiated geometric mode to a circular meeting place for the public. Access to the remaining parts of the complex is reserved for permanent workers.

• Customer: Ministero della Giustizia
• Year: 2006
• City: L'Aquila

Italiana Costruzioni’s commitment to the creation of public works has led to the construction of numerous highly complex works.Security and confidentiality requirements make the planning and building of prisons an extremely complicated task which requires a wide variety of professional skills and a delicate approach to all stages of the project, from the initial planning phase to completion of the building work. Some of the most significant prison projects completed by Italiana Costruzioni include the Borgo San Nicola district prison and courtroom in Lecce, the semi-custody, storeroom and office facilities of Rebibbia prison in Rome and, more recently, the extension of L’Aquila prison facilities, a project which required the restructuring and extension of a number of buildings, the creation of new facilities and the adaptation of the whole complex to conform with building standards via the creation of new, highly complex technological systems. Italiana  Costruzioni (in temporary business combine with Tosi Ezio & C. S.p.A.) has also been awarded a contract for the executive planning and building of a new prison on the island of Favignana in the Aegadian archipelago. The project is distinguished by its focus on environmental aspects, while its buildings reflect the typical building style of Favignana and are characterized by small, articulated structures which blend perfectly into the surrounding landscape. The size and materials used to build such complementary elements as watchtowers and prison walls are suggested by the military structures to which the Aegadian islands have always been home.

• City: Roma Chiaromonte

Another field of great interest, from the dimensional, technological and distributive viewpoint, is, for Italiana Costruzioni, operations of construction, enlargement and technological adjustment of hospital complexes. Three significant examples are the operations carried out at the Umberto I General Hospital and at S. Giovanni Hospital in Rome and the construction of a new hospital in the Chiaramonte region (Pz). At the Umberto I General Hospital of Rome, many operations were carried out, ranging from the reorganisation and alteration of the inter- nal structures of some departments, to the construction of new buildings such as the Anatomy and Pathological Histology Hall and the Neurological Tower of the Nervous and Mental Disease Clinic. At S. Giovanni Hospital there were several interventions of restoration and upgrading of structures and installation. Chiaramonte is the result of a contract competition that requested the design and construction of the internal fittings and of the exteriors of the pre- existing supporting structures.