Regeneration of Corviale: Competition Project, Rome, in New Prospectives in Social Housing

Corviale is a huge building, over one kilometer long located in a peripheral part of Rome. Out of scale dimensions, several errors made during the design stage as well as poor post-construction management has made this building a living icon of the failure of social housing strategies of the 1970s in Italy. The project we submitted in 2015, at the competition for the regeneration of the building, was awarded the fourth prize and special mention. Our regeneration hypothesis for this colossal building, a true wreck of architectural utopias and languages, is the result of a multitasking strategy regarding the whole building and – given its scale – it also includes our idea of a landscape