• Customer: Comune di Verona
• Year: 2007
• City: Verona

PALACE CULTURE
The restoration of one of the most prestigious palazzos in Verona will see the creation of a new exhibition and cultural centre designed to attract lovers of high quality cultural events.

The initiative will conserve and restore one of the most architecturally and historically important palazzos in Verona in such a way as to enhance its exploitation by the public. The project will completely change the vocation of the ancient town hall, Palazzo della Ragione, to create a multi-functional exhibition and cultural centre designed to attract lovers of high quality cultural events. The central area of the complex will be entirely dedicated to exhibition halls, while the ground floor will be given over to craft shops and merchandising relative to the exhibitions in progress. Thus Palazzo della Ragione will once more become an active part of the collective life of the city of Verona. The first floor of the palazzo will house temporary exhibitions, a conference room, a bar and bathrooms, while the mezzanine floor will be dedicated to offices and further exhibition spaces. The top floors of the Torre dei Lamberti will be destined to multimedia communications, workshop activities, conservation initiatives and technical facilities. From a technical point of view, the project will include the restoration and static reinforcement of the walls and the wooden beams of the floors and roofs, as well as technological modernization of all the facilities and the elimination of architectonic barriers.

• Customer: Congregazione per l’Evangelizzazione dei Popoli
• Year: 2008
• City: Roma

IN THE HEART OF BAROQUE ROME

Completed by Borromini in 1665, the famous headquarters of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples is in desperate need of structural restoration.Palazzo di Propaganda Fide is home to the

Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, the congregation of the Roman Curia responsible for missionary work founded in 1622. The Palazzo was built according to a project by Gianlorenzo Bernini and completed by Francesco Borromini in 1665 and is one of the most important examples of Baroque art in Rome. Restoration of the building was made necessary following the collapse of a number of wooden roofing structures, but it has since been decided to restore the whole complex. As far as the roof is concerned, the project in hand will replace crumbling beams, completely reconstruct the roof frame and replace all the tiles, while the walls and vaults will be reinforced and repaired by injecting them with cement mortar and epoxy resin. Similarly, the project will also include the strengthening, restoration and painting of all the plaster, stuccoes and marbles of the facade.

• Customer: Comune di Milano
• Year: 2008
• City: Milan

RESTORATION AND THE CREATION OF NEW URBAN PARKLANDS.
By restoring an important ancient building and creating a new park which blends perfectly into the surrounding area, this project offers a chance to give new life to one of the most degraded areas of the city of Milan.

The project will renovate, conserve and clear the whole of Villa Scheibler, including the grounds, in order to enable its socio-economic development pursuant to the European Urban Initiative Programme II – Milan 2000/2006. In particular, the project will convert the ancient stables into a local police station. The building conservation activities of the project will see the reinforcement of the main load bearing structures of the villa and the creation of a new building joining it to an existing basement car park. The initiative will also see the landscaping of the parkland with new urban furniture, trees and plants. The most important stage of the project will be the strengthening of the load bearing structures of the villa and will see the reinforcement of floors, walls and the roof in such a way as to enable complete recovery of the function of the original constructions. The aim of the project is to give Villa Scheibler back to the citizens of Milan after the negligence and degradation of the past years. Thus one of the most important aspects of the project is the landscaping of the parkland around the villa and especially the area between the villa and the roads connecting it to the surrounding areas. A new, typically Milanese, cobbled square lit by floor lighting will highlight the architectural aspects of the villa, making it once again a centre of attraction for the citizens of the Milan and restoring its two hundred year old relationship with the city.

• Customer: Sir Rocco Forte and Family SpA
• Year: 2000
• City: Roma

The Hotel de Russie, a historical reference point for celebrated artists between 1800 and 1900, was for years unused after having many diverse functions. Therefore, the restoration operation was very demanding and, due to customer’s requirements, it needed a quick work organization that, in only ten months with two or three shifts per day, allowed the work to be finished in time. For the realisation of the project, high quality materials were selected for all the floors and roofing, including “bateig” sandstone, marble, and mosaics of various natures and origins. The hotel offers it’s guests absolute comfort and elegance; two restaurants, a banquet room, two bars,lounge rooms, and a roof garden ajutting a top class relaxation zone with a fitness area, sauna, massage rooms and a hydrotherapy saltwater bath. Particular attention was paid to the restoration of the historical garden of the hotel. The tall trees were preserved, the garden beds and grassy areas were restored and the pathways were enriched with fruit trees and antique rose bushes. A particularly treated illumination exalts the garden at night which in the festive months has a restaurant and bar of great atmosphere.

• Customer: Esedra Gestioni Alberghiere srl (Boscolo Group)
• Year: 2003
• City: Roma

The execution of an operation named “Exedra: Gate of Rome” has redefined the real estate around the Piazza della Repubblica and the adjacent streets. In particular, the work program has involved the “Clementino” building and the characteristically curvilinear building designed by Gaetano Koch in 1886. Buildings adjacent but distinct for the epochs, styles and techniques of construction. The operation was planned to house a high level hotel structure and has the principle objective to modify the destination of the use of the buildings while rigorously preserving the architectural canons. The project was developed with restrictions that imposed the maintenance of the exteriors and of the height of imposition of the roof spaces that render themselves indispensable to the radical structural interventions such as the repositioning of the vertical connecting structures and the integration of the new technological system. The result is evident in the adoption of effective solutions that have allowed the integration of the new elements and systems with harmony and functionality in the preexisting architectural context. This work represents an example of perfect union between sensitivity to origins, design experience and master realisation, a combination of indispensable factors for the success of an operation that restores to Rome the splendour of a piece of her history.

• Customer: Sviluppo Italia, Comune di Napoli
• Year: 2000
• City: Napoli
• ATI Joint venture: Laboratori di Quartiere srl SCS Azio- ninnova spa, GRM srl

The restoration of the Real Albergo dei Poveri in Naples constitutes an extremely important experience because it is the recovery of an important historical building, and, at the same time, a theatre of experimentation for a formative project, named the “schoolyard ” that had the objective to unite the building operation and formative activity. The Real Albergo dei Poveri, was constructed due to the wishes of Carlo the 3rd of Bourbon in the second half of the 17th century. It was to receive the poor of the kingdom that at the time were crowding the streets of the city. It is an imposing edifice that occupies a dominating position in Piazza Carlo the 3rd, in the centre of Naples. Subjected to collapse and ruin following an earthquake in 1980, the complex was approaching a state of abandonment and of growing damage. Through a management operation of the Government of Naples, Sviluppo Italia, and a group of firms directed by Italiana Construzioni SpA, began the recovery of the first area of the immense complex. Lecturers, tutors, pupils and firms have in this way, restored an important edifice to the city and have created new professionalism, qualified in the restoration field and in the management and maintenance of cultural assets.