Opalescence Olive Oil

Villa della Regina, Torino_Concorso

Steps Huc et tibi ostendam

Abstract

The project area is located north of the Villa della Regina, one of the Savoy Residences piemontesi.Il complex courtly consisting of buildings (halls of the villa and gardens), Italian gardens, agricultural areas (vineyard, farmhouse with gardens) and service buildings has been recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. Recently restored, it is now open to the public as a museum, a documentation center for the studies and historical-educational workshops related to the garden.

at a site originally stood a orangery, and extended several times until the late eighteenth century to become a large multi-storey building for the Court , traditionally called the Palazzo Chiablese. During the nineteenth century the building was used as a National Institute of the Daughters of the Italian military and subsequently significantly elevated to a height of over 20 meters with four floors above ground. The building was bombed during World War and seriously damaged, it was finally demolished in 1962. Currently, part of its airbase area is occupied by a volume containing equipment rooms to serve the Villa della Regina. The revived interest in the area has necessitated the construction of a building that will hide these technical volumes and accommodate the functions of support to the museum (ticket office, bookshop, cafeteria, etc.). This building is the subject of this contest.

The objectives set by the specification is particularly interesting to improve the organizational capacity of the vertical links between different areas of the complex, so that the physical network of links is also network capable of holding together the visual shares and making clear the paths.

Design Approach

The rise is the founder of this project theme.

The building, in fact, lies on the Turin hills beyond the Po, almost in alignment between Piazza Vittorio Veneto and the Church of the Great Mother of God Who, by the city, reached the hill and then of the Villa Regina, along an uphill path to the building wants to be not the point of arrival but rather the ideal follow-up. With its location and layout, it reaffirms and reinforces the visual link between the hill and the city at the same time, with his being an object very simple and clearly contemporary, is part of the ancient complex to complete it without distorting.

The relationship with the surrounding landscape

The building height does not exceed the portion of the avenues of the round, so the vantage point of the garden in an amphitheater to the city is preserved. The project also creates new points of view, in fact, the new strip that connects to an optical device is designed to be functional to the enjoyment of the landscape. The opening on the west front entrance allows the public in an initial horizontal view of the gardens, parterres , they are not infatti visibili per chi proviene dal basso, ossia dalla città, fino al momento del raggiungimento dell’edificio, in quanto situati ad una quota superiore rispetto al percorso di accesso. La fessura sulla facciata est, poi, induce ad sollevare lo sguardo verso i giardini superiori. L’apertura sul fronte ovest, infine, è come la lente di un grande cannocchiale puntato verso Torino. Diviene così preponderante non l’oggetto architettonico in sé, ma piuttosto ciò che da esso e grazie ad esso si può vedere o raggiungere. Questa relazione con il paesaggio è dunque piuttosto articolata perché si invera su due livelli: quello di un paesaggio prossimo, il complesso della Villa con i giardini e le vigne, ed un paesaggio remoto, la città di Torino.

Fruibilità

Il progetto risponde alle esigenze della committenza, assolvendo a tutte le necessarie funzioni di supporto e servizio al Museo richieste dal bando di concorso. Sviluppando alcuni spunti in esso contenuti, vengono proposte altre funzioni, di natura culturale e ricreativa, per arricchire il programma funzionale e suggerire ulteriori possibilità di uso della nuova manica e dell’area circostante. In questo modo l’edificio assume una propria valenza, anche indipendentemente dal rapporto con la Villa , grazie ad una strategia progettuale che consente diverse modalità to use it. The direct public gardens of the Villa or may even just through the volume of connection to quickly reach the goal of the visit, but another type of user will benefit them in any other time of opening of the Museum to view exhibits, participate in cultural events or go to the rooftop restaurant, the latter is ideally related to productive activities and teaching of vineyards and gardens and includes a wine-tasting of wines from Piedmont and also a small wine museum.

Routes

Access is made to the share-2.00m via a pedestrian path and driveway which also allows loading and unloading. Access service consists of a ramp alongside the North-East side reaches the height -2.78 m and gives access to: the filing of the bookshop, the cellar, the services for the kitchen staff and custodians, the local and technical direction and meeting rooms. But always at a height of 2.00m in the North-East building, is access to the public. The entrance area is designed so as to induce the visitor to stop, but continue to cover, climb already taken out. A wide ramp leads from the share-2.00ma-0.18m, where the true entrance hall, shifted to the back of volume. For location and configuration it is the real core of the building: there are, in addition to the wardrobe and the bathroom, the multimedia stations and areas for exhibitions and screenings. From here it takes all the articulation of interior space: the entrance area and just across the plateau to the upper level overlooking the atrium and ticketing. At this point there is a separation of paths: the direct visitors to the museum passes the tickets and enter the lower level of the strip that connects, at the seventeenth-century source. The public direct to the restaurant-wine bar, however, continues to rise through the ladder to reach the area where you will also find a bar, a kitchen and a bookshop.

This concludes the rise.

From here you can enjoy the beautiful view, which opens onto the restaurant also has a terrace-lookout coperta.La north wall of the bookshop and the restaurant is occupied by a large display used for wine, in Part restaurant and part of the books in the bookshop, this encompasses the light wells containing ducts for the ventilation plant room below. Similarly, handouts and bar are separated by another air shaft, in continuity with the wall of the kitchen. The latter is dotata di una grande apertura che le consente di prendere luce e la rende visibile al pubblico. Alle spalle della cucina, sopra l’atrio, si trova il bookshop al quale accedono direttamente anche i visitatori in uscita dal museo o dai giardini, percorrendo il livello superiore della manica di collegamento (quota 4.44m). Essi possono quindi scendere al livello del guardaroba per poi tornare al livello -2.00m ed uscire dall’edificio.