1955 Mario Fiorentino (1918/82)
Area of 8.5
hectares (21 acres) comprising of 180 apartments, each with a vegetable garden
of about 150/200 m² (1,600/2,100 square feet), given to about 900 war refugees
The type of
housing show an interesting Scandinavian influence
“The
building types include row houses, simplex and duplex, which extend each one in
an open space of their own. The reference to rural architecture is noticeable
in both the construction technique, the adoption of a continuous masonry of the
traditional type, and in the morphological details” (Giorgio Muratore)
It was
built with funds from the United Nations intended to help the populations in
distress for the war
UNRRA
(United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) was an organization
of the United Nations, based in Washington, established in 1943 to assist
economically and civilly countries left badly damaged by World War II. It was
discontinued in 1947. The funds came from countries that had not experienced
devastation during the war
The new
neighborhood replaced a rickety township built in the thirties of the twentieth
century to accommodate families evicted from the city center during the fascist
demolitions
It had been
built with the so-called carpelite, a mixture of wood and lime
The houses
of the village were so pretty much just sturdy huts and were known as Case
Sette Lire (seven liras houses) or Casette Peter (Peter's small
houses) from the name of the designer
“It may seem
strange a decision to build in a city like Rome a neighborhood of such limited
size (180 homes), but given the paucity of funding, it was decided anyway to
build a small project that would somehow have an exemplary character. (...)
Even today, in the vast outskirts of Rome, the 'Village St. Basil' succeeds in
maintaining its particular character, a bit unreal, of a suburban residential
area that the city's development hasn't virtually affected” (Piero Ostilio
Rossi)
1963 by Augusto Baccin (1914/98)
In the
building of the parish there is an embedded ancient medieval tower
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