University of Ferrara
Ferrara, Italy
2013
competition
The materials and construction techniques used for the new university at the Hospital Sant'Anna di Ferrara, are what constitutes the very image of the building. The thick wooden structural mesh, rear-end collisions and partitions in glass and aluminum, concrete pavement and underlying structures that emerge from the ground, refer to the image of its simplicity of the architecture that historically insist in the territory, such as farms, farmhouses and settlements and agricultural production, in which the elements that constitute the identity arise from their same function.
The large windows provide to all floors maximum "permeability" to the outside, mediated by the presence of structures, which , with their tight sequence, shield sunlight.
The different functional areas are organized around the distribution spaces horizontally, through the building from the north-east, axis on which is placed the main entrance to the University, in direct connection with the nearby Hospital.
The main collective functions - cafeteria, dining area, living room space and study - are in direct contact with the outside covered areas ,used for parking outdoors, real spaces of aggregation and filtering between inside and outside.
promoter: University of Ferrara
architectural design: Quattroassociati
gross floor area: 5.730 sqm