81.65 79.98 95.86 78.00 Weiterbauen A contemporary hotel within the heart of Cagliari “ The top of Cagliari is the fortress: the old gate, the old ramparts, of honey-combed, fine yellowish sandstone. Up in a great sweep goes the rampart wall, Spanish and splendid, dizzy” David Herbert Lawrence WHERE: - ITALY, SARDINIA The district of Castello is the main district of the four present in Cagliari. The urban fabric has the characteristics of a medieval settlement, with small streets, in relation to the height of the buildings, giving to the district a characteristic density of built space. Walking down the inner street, the natural light penetrates from the above, filtered from the building’s rooftops, shading the streets and giving the district a shady atmosphere characteristic of medieval cities. Along the rampart walls, the dark inner space opens to the surrounding area and the gulf. During World War II, entire buildings were destroyed by bombing creating gaps in the historical urban fabric which have not been restored yet. This is the context in which the project is developed during the seminar of design, directed by Hans Kollhoff and entitled “Weiterbauen. A contemporary hotel in the historic centre of Cagliari “. Weiterbauen is the strategy, it expresses the concept of continuity of the new construction with what already exists, capturing their qualities and making the already built intervention and the new one as a unique entity. The project’s site is located within the district, bordering “via La Marmora” on the west side and via Cannelles to the east. The former building has been destroyed by the bombings, and today, there is still a fragment of the original facade. The idea is to re-create the old volume including the existing fragment in order to obtain a continuous relation between the old fragment and the new construction whose continuity is not o<strong>nl</strong>y physical but also functional and formal. The project area is divided into three gothic lots. The central area is for the lobby that develops itself to the full height of the building, defining a void that connects all the surrounding spaces. The atmosphere of the district’s streets has been the starting point to define the one of the lobby; a high and narrow space with the same dimensional relationship between the width of the road and the height of the buildings, defined by high column and floors. The light enters from the above through a glazed roof, in order to create a spatial bond between the external public space and the internal common space. At the ground floor, it is connected on the left with the restaurant while, on the right, with the stairs, the waiting room, the bathroom and the patio. On the next levels, it opens to the corridors leading to the rooms. The main entrance is located in Via La Marmora where a big arch leads to the space of the reception. This is a dark space that symbolizes the transition between the public space and the privacy of the lobby. The facade is rebuilt following the guidance of the existing fragment whereas the proportions of the windows, their position relative to the outer edge of the facade and the relationship between the elements constituent the facade, such as the base, the central body and the crowning element, are retaken in order to create a single building. Cornices and mouldings are proposed simplified but in a way to generate the same shadows of the presents ones. The colour chosen for the main body and the crowning element is the yellow tuff, while the base is covered with white granite. CAGLIARI EXISTING FRAGMENT DIMENSIONAL CONTINUITY BETWEEN THE WAY AND THE LOBBY SITE PLAN VOLUME OF THE LOBBY PROSPETTO VICO I ALBERTO LAMARMORA PROSPETTO VIA ALBERTO LAMARMORA RELATION BETWEEN HEIGHT E WIDTH OF THE BULDINGS FRONT OF THE PRIOR FACADE 10
FRONT C - VIA CANELLES FRONT B - VICO LAMARMORA FRONT A - VIA LAMARMORA WINDOW’S ELEVATION WINDOW’S FRONT WINDOW’S PLAN C B A EXTERIOR VIEW 11
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