University of Udine
Udine, Italy
2012 -2013
Competition, First prize
The volume of the new university building is articulated in relation to existing conditions and to the different functional components of the program, while ensuring overall unitary body. The complex is spread over three levels above ground and a basement and is divided into two wings, one that contains the administrative spaces and recreational facilities, laboratories, classrooms for 20 and studies, and a second, served by a gallery overlooking the triple-height lobby, which contains the classrooms for 150 seats and 30 seats and the laboratories.
The building is aligned to Faedis way with a continuous cantilever roof which connotes the main front, establishing continuity of scale with the surrounding residential building.
Towards the way the volume of three floors of the building is continuous and patterned with a double inner flap that reduces the height and modifies the longitudinal development. Towards the garden is instead divided into two bodies, slightly rotated to improve sun exposure of the classrooms and laboratories that are so oriented to the southwest.
The project assumes as a priority the use of energy saving strategies and sustainability with attention to the peculiarities of the solutions of environmental control, with particular reference to passive systems and the use of renewable sources for energy production.
client: University of Udine
architectural design:Quattroassociati
Arch.Cristina Calligaris
Arch.Marco Voltini
dimensional parameters:
plot area 3.554 sqm
gross floor 3.435 sqm
structure: Biesse Consulting S.a.s.
electrical services: Ing.Luca Pellizzoni
mechanical services: Ing.Claudio Tarvis
cost analysis: Federico Belli