On Wednesday, October 16, Il Quotidiano Immobiliare is organizing an online meeting with Marco Giorgio, Partner and Director of Stefano Boeri Architetti, and Francesca Pincella who are presenting the Redevelopment of Former Banca d’Italia in Cremona.
The event focuses on the Palazzo CorteVerdi – Redevelopment of the Former Bank of Italy in Cremona, a project by Stefano Boeri Architetti involving the regeneration of the historic building, built in the 1950s to a design by Luigi Vagnetti, and then decommissioned in 2009. The architecture, overlooking Piazza Stradivari, recalls the architecture of the Banks of Italy of the period and evokes the image of a fortress, closed and introverted; it now forms a fundamental backdrop to the layout of the Piazza as well as being particularly recognizable within the urban context. Now stripped of its former function, the building today lacks a direct relationship with the city and a real connection with the public space.
For this reason, the design principles on which the design intervention is based, see on the one hand a redevelopment that takes into account the value of the pre-existences, in full respect of their strongly consolidated character, and on the other hand the energy efficiency of the structure and its reconnection with the city, thanks to the creation of a green courtyard inside, and the use of the arcade, outside, for collective functions – literally opening the building to the interaction between the city.
Overall, Stefano Boeri Architetti’s intervention, in line with the firm’s design approach and previous architectural and urban redevelopment experiences, aims to give the former Banca d’Italia building in Cremona added value, both functional and environmental, starting from the principles of reducing land consumption, redeveloping the built environment, upgrading energy, and enhancing its relationship with its context. Maintaining a strong relationship with the historical pre-existence, the project preserves its formal external appearance, opening in the internal courtyard the revisitation of the facades, in a contemporary key.
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