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The composition of the Architecture of the new Castel Maggiore Library, characterized by a sinuous design smoothly integrated into the Calipari Park, finds its most profound and authentic creative inception in the search for a solid and intimate continuity between the green and more natural space of the Park and the confined and more anthropic space of the new urban structure. The new place of knowledge, aspiring to become the main city structure for the dissemination of culture and information, as well as a preferred place for socialization, rises from the ground level, showcasing its sinuous green edges and opening to the community with large glass surfaces and circular openings, revealing its spaces of knowledge and aggregation to it.
The new Library structure integrates into the Park with an indissoluble continuity between nature and architecture, thus qualifying as a powerful element of urban renewal, characterized by a recognizable and distinctive mark capable of communicating its role as a facility serving socialization and aggregation. The large boulevard, which connects Bondanello Street with Ilaria Alpi Street transversely through the park, serves both as a new gateway and as a place for catalyzing and connecting all the activities and functions that alternate within it, thus becoming a new focal point, a large square, a place for collective action, freedom, and creativity.
The project uses passive strategies by evaluating direct sunlight for the building to determine geometries and shadows. As a winter strategy, the shape of the building redirects the cold northwestern wind; the space between the two volumes acts as a wind shelter and creates a comfortable microclimate where the volumes absorb solar rays and radiate heat towards the square. In summer, the wind channelling effect between the two volumes creates a breeze. The vegetation mitigates heat, creating shade and evaporative cooling. The system includes renewable sources, thermal and photovoltaic solar panels, and water management through collection, reuse, and phytoremediation systems, along with permeable pavements.
An intervention in harmony with the landscape, a continuum between built and external-internal context designed to fulfill social, civil, and educational functions. The green edges, at the margins of the boulevard, offer opportunities for reconciliation and understanding of the building with its context, thanks to the widespread use of green roofs that provide seating and reading spaces, as well as relaxation areas. Below the coverings, there is a harmonious, bright, open yet intimate architectural environment, characterized by well-defined spatial and functional choices. Along the eastern margin of the boulevard, the public service area unfolds, with the larger volume housing the library on three levels, and the adjacent block, continuous with the library, housing the exhibition hall with independent access, flanked by spaces for workshops, offices, and storage. The interiors, characterized by a modern and linear design, predominantly treated with light and soft colors, furnished with contemporary elements that emphasize their function open to the city, are enlivened by suggestive chromatic contrasts of the finishes and the continuous highlights of natural light, which, filtering through the large openings and modulated by sunshades, designs the interior space, creating a suggestive sequence of interrelationships between inside and outside.
The result is an authentic architecture, usable and traversable in multiple directions, a structure that invites entry, welcoming, able to interact actively with the surrounding landscape, outlining new and dynamic views, in a suggestive and unusual outlook on the context environment. A kind of living encyclopedia that contains within it knowledge, techniques, and cultural strategies, concerned with the dissemination of knowledge while fulfilling a social role.
S.b.arch is an architecture and landscape studio based in Rome and Foligno, composed of architects Federico Bargone, Francesco Bartolucci, Enrico Auletta, and surveyor Massimo Baldini. The professional activity is based on the integration of specialized and multidisciplinary skills. Through theoretical studies, practical experiences, participation in international architecture competitions, and participatory design workshops, S.b.arch is dedicated to understanding the city, developing complex architecture and landscape projects, studying themes for urban reuse and reorganization, applying sustainable models and bioclimatic technologies, and participatory design processes. S.b.arch works closely with artists, sociologists, economists, and other figures essential to the development of complex projects.
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