Collegio di Cina
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Collegio di Cina (College of China) is an institution which promotes cultural exchange between the university of Bologna and Chinese students. This project is a proposal for the College's headquarters, providing offices, lecture rooms, an auditorium, spaces for expositions, and rooms for guest professors and students.
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[edit] Location
[edit] Project description
[edit] Site
The college's site is inside an enclosure, next to many other university buildings (including Palazzina della Viola, a Fifteenth century leisure house of a local aristocratic family), at the end of via Filippo Re. On the north and east sides the site is enclosed by a well-conserved part of the Fourteenth Century city walls, which were almost completely demolished during the 1800s. The walls were reinforced with embankments in the internal side, which now show dense and tall vegetation. On the west side the University's Botanic Garden provides further shading and vegetation.
[edit] Concept
The project aims to deal with the preexistent objects (the wall, the embankments, plants, and historical buildings), using both opposition and adaptation techniques. The single buildings oppose the site features for their material (brutal reinforced concrete), their pure form and their particular position, embedded to the embankment's ground. By the other side, the entire composition researches reintegration: because of the continuity of external and internal distribution spaces, and the creation of two new piazzas at the end of the perspective of via Filippo Re.
[edit] Drawings
- Image:CC1.pdf Site plan
- Image:CC2.pdf General plans
- Image:CC3.pdf Buildings plans 1
- Image:CC4.pdf Buildings plans 2
- Image:CC5.pdf Section 1
- Image:CC6.pdf Section 2
- Image:CC7.png Rendering
[edit] Related projects
Other Collegio di Cina projects
[edit] External links
- Collegio di Cina on divisare.com
- Collegio di Cina official website (Italian/Chinese/English)
