Regeneration of Corviale: Competition Project, Rome, in New Prospectives in Social Housing
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Lambertucci Filippo, Lanini Luca, Posocco Pisana, Raitano Manuela, Battisti Alessandra, Tucci Fabrizio
Corviale is a huge building, over one kilometer long located in a
peripheral part of Rome. Out of scale dimensions, several errors made
during the design stage as well as poor post-construction management
has made this building a living icon of the failure of social housing
strategies of the 1970s in Italy. The project we submitted in 2015, at
the competition for the regeneration of the building, was awarded the
fourth prize and special mention. Our regeneration hypothesis for this
colossal building, a true wreck of architectural utopias and languages,
is the result of a multitasking strategy regarding the whole building
and – given its scale – it also includes our idea of a landscape