NATIONAL INSTITUTE INFECTIOUS DISEASES “Lazzaro Spallanzani”

Project of a multifunctional and multimedia center: it consists of a large conference room equipped with high-tech systems, meeting rooms, exhibition spaces, multipurpose rooms and services. The project focuses on the reuse of an old building, once used as a thermal power plant. Even if the structure is sagging today, it retains the charm of a simple and essential architecture, heritage and witness of a new kind of archeology, to be rediscovered through a culturally reuse, completely new, both in destination and functionality, but still ancient in its roots and typical elements. The project stands on this assumptions, with the following cornerstones:

– Preservation and improvement of the outer building envelope through interventions of conservative restoration of the original structure;

– Preservation and restoration of the still working features, such as trusses and iron windows;

– Usage of high-tech materials and systems.