Social Centre
Belforte (SI), Italy, 2024
Client: Comune di Radicondoli (SI)
Surface: 500sm (interiors), 1000sm (outside)
Design’s aim is to restore the centrality and importance of the Social centre in Belforte, rethinking its accessibility and functionality. The centre must rediscover its relationship with the town, embracing its surroundings and, in particular, the square above. For this reason it is essential to enhance its open spaces, increasing their equipment and creating an integrated environmental system of gardens, always open to the public. The original centre was physically built by the inhabitants of Radicondoli and Belforte. Actual regulations in force prevent do not allow citizens to be involved in such activities anymore, nevertheless, it is still essential to involve citizens in the process of renewal of the centre. Once the building interventions will be finalized, people will be required to participate in the creation of the layout of the spaces, both internal and open: from the production of furniture to the management of urban gardens. The centre is the only covered space available for the citizens of Radicondoli and Belforte. It must be able to accommodate different types of use within it, even simultaneously. It must have the ability to transform itself over time without requiring radical transformation interventions. For this reason, in the interior design, fixed functions are positioned on the perimeter of the building, so as to leave the central areas open and flexible.
