architect: Cino Zucchi Architetti
location: Parma
year: 2011
The site of the project is situated in the north-west corner of the new intervention, straddled between the bustle of daily life of the avenues that connect the area to the centre and the quiet dimensions of the new park. This invites and gives synthetic shape to the needs of contemporary living in a place of high environmental quality.
The open court-yard setting of the buildings’ mass protects a central green area onto which the large terraces face. The positioning of these buildings have been carefully studied in relation to the movement of the sun so as to create “open air living rooms” which allow the lodgings to be lived to the full throughout all the seasons of the year. All communal entrances can be accessed directly from the perimeter of the site and are connected to the vast area of the building’s garden.
