Nuovi modelli per nuova ricchezza: Corviale a Roma - New models for new wealth: Corviale in Rome

The definition of a finalized program for the conversion of a degraded urban contest is a complex operation which must take in to account various aspects (technicalaesthetic, environmental, social, economic-financial and procedural); the feasibility of a salvaged operation is strictly dependant on financial and economic benefits originated by a reconversion program which made of sustainable and compatibility its referent assets. “Real “wealth can be made if the process of settled transformation born from program /project produces positive plusvalency and exteriority. The 61 area plan (PdZ) “Corviale” in Rome concerns an area of around 70 hectares, on which lies a town building of 960 meters built to host more than 6000 inhabitants, made of housing of public estate with an autonomous equipment of community services, expression of the modern theories on the housing unity and on the linear town, which is today the symbol of urban degradation which interests both the architectonic and social bounds. Today “Corviale” is no longer suitable to satisfy the settlement needs together with today life standards, therefore “Corviale” has to be reconsidered. The area on which lies, semi-central on the territory of Rome, is highly strategic under both the infrastructure and environmental profile and in theory it would present strong remarks in the market but inhibited by the lacks due to the physics conformation of the urban space and of the buildings. Giving back urban quality to “Corviale”, providing a partial introduction into the market of re-qualified estates (houses and services), it could create profits which make the operation sustainable from the financial and economic point of view. To reach the above is right to carry out a choice between two re-qualified hypothesis, one of demolition and the other one of recovery. We recognize technical problems for the demolition hypothesis, environmental and of costs tied to the materials selling off, therefore we intend to verify the feasibility of the intervention of re-conversion of the existent suggesting a settled model, which grants a recognition to the building connected to the integration between anthropic and natural sphere. The financial support must be fastened with the one environmental. The building can be transformed through the experimentation of new settled models and the use of technicalinstallation solutions which will allow of giving a new asset and of making autonomous at an energetic level the building solving the problems of an architectural and social character (ending bridges, inefficiency of installations), in the mixture of the new and old consumers to whom the building is addressed.