1949/52 urban project: Mario
De Renzi (1897/1967) and Saverio Muratori
(1910/73). 440 lodgings
Projects of the buildings: Saverio
Muratori, Mario De Renzi, Mario Paniconi (1904/73), Giulio
Pediconi (1906/99) and Fernando Puccioni
TORRI
STELLARI (star-shaped towers) by Mario De Renzi
The area consists
of almost 5 hectares (12.3 acres) with 440 lodgings for about 3,000 inhabitants
and it was the first of the Piani-Casa (plans for homes) designed to
give a home to the new Roman working class
The
original town plan was not completed
“In the
Valco San Paolo neighborhood it is clear how both the whole and the parts have
a clear stylistic unity through careful control of the ways of dealing with the
different types of buildings, but there is also space for a series of small
service facilities for the neighborhood and for elements of urban design”
(Mario Carotti - www.urbanistica.unipr.it)
“The
limitation of this approach, very common in the interventions made in those
years, is to consider the neighborhood as a closed element, and then to solve
within itself the aspects of architectural and urban planning. The balance of
these values gets in fact to be completely changed when the neighborhood, often
built in the outer fringe of the urban expansion, is absorbed by the town. The
Valco S. Paolo is in fact today barely recognizable near the crammed
constructions of Viale Marconi and the relationships between the elements,
which were the basis of the project, appears to be irretrievably altered”
(Piero Ostilio Rossi)
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