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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Camplus San Pietro in Rome, Italy by Roselli Architetti AssociatiApril 21st, 2023 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Roselli Architetti Associati Camplus San Pietro was a former health facility that has been refurbished by Roselli Architetti Associati in order to allow CEUR Foundation; to manage it as a student residence during the academic year; and as a budget hotel when there are no students. The six-storey building is located next to the Vatican City and hosts a total of 120 guest rooms.  Image Courtesy © Luigi Filetici
 Image Courtesy © Luigi Filetici This architecture intervention allows student and guests to live in symbiosis with nature and its urban context. Nature becomes part of the interior design concept thanks to the wide openings in the façade allowing the observation of the vivid and lush surroundings from any room inside the building. The outdoor areas, part of the new landscape concept, seem to be seamlessly incorporated into the common areas of the lower floors. The living façade, the main protagonists outdoors, changes according to the seasons and contributes to the sustainability of the building. Moreover, the implementation of light level sensors, motions sensors, the most flexible and energy efficient heating and cooling system, environmental friendly water heaters and photovoltaic panels among others, contributed also to the sustainability of the building.  Image Courtesy © Luigi Filetici  Image Courtesy © Luigi Filetici The new landscape project foresaw the increase of permeable surface area around the building, the planting of over 100 new trees and the use of rain gardens in order to increase the absorption rate of the soil during rainfall. Camplus San Pietro received an honorable mention in the “High-Tech City Landscape” category of the ECOtechGREEN Award 2022 thank to its high architectural quality and the graceful way in which the sustainability objectives established at the beginning of the project were achieved. On the other hand, the brutalist style of the building; due to its history and seismic retrofitting, open the path to other design choices in that same minimal and functional line. Mechanical services were left visible or partly covered by metal mesh panels, elegant heating elements were fixed on the walls and the reinforced concrete reception desk that seems to challenge the force of gravity maintained its rough look.  Image Courtesy © Roselli Architetti Associati  Image Courtesy © Daniele Molajoli This bold brutalist style, apart from adding also to the sustainability concept of the building by reducing the amount of materials used in the refurbishment, is however not overwhelming thanks to the juxtaposition with sculpture like architectural elements such as the main staircase or the slim structures that host the furniture pieces in the guest rooms. The design of this particular metal frameworks with embedded furniture pieces was facilitated by the high ceilings and allow a clear differentiation between night and daytime areas, creating a loft feeling.  Image Courtesy © Luigi Filetici  Image Courtesy © Luigi Filetici  Image Courtesy © Luigi Filetici  Image Courtesy © Luigi Filetici  Image Courtesy © Luigi Filetici  Image Courtesy © Daniele Molajoli  Image Courtesy © Daniele Molajoli  Image Courtesy © Roselli Architetti Associati  Image Courtesy © Roselli Architetti Associati  Image Courtesy © Roselli Architetti Associati  Image Courtesy © Roselli Architetti Associati
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