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La Sala
Social housing
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Location |
Firenze, Italy |
Client |
Affitto Firenze Spa |
Date |
2009 – 2012 |
Dimensions |
8.200 mq |
Budget |
€ 12.300.000,00 |
Commission |
Concept, developed and technical design, art direction |
Architectural design |
Arx srl, A. Ciullini, S. Trovato, L. Gensini |
Credits |
Archivio Arx |
The social housing project in Via della Sala in Florence, in an area of completion between Via Pistoiese and Via Lucchese – in addition to responding to the need for housing – wanted to create moments of individual recognizability, in the architectural uniformity dictated by the need for construction economy. The vector “colour” can help to determine a factor of belonging and recognisability of the individual dwellings. f the “colour” is combined with an architectural element repeated serially, such as the gridded volumes of the terraces, the recognisability takes on communicative immediacy. By alternating colours we obtain a diversity of languages that are only apparently random.