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The project for the International Competition I Portici in Frosinone builds a new piece of the city from a deliberate ambivalence: iconic and synthetic toward the Villa Comunale and the park, articulate and domestic toward Via De Matthaeis and the commercial axis. Two faces, one urban organism.
The complex-residential, commercial and public-does not merely occupy the lot, but redefines the centrality of the neighborhood, integrating the new fabric with the same layered complexity of an Italian suburb interpreted in a contemporary key.
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The urban backdrop building and the park
The linear body is the symbolic sign of the project toward the Municipal Villa. Toward the west, the facade dematerializes into a technological skin with mobile screens, on which vegetation leans and grows: nature becoming architecture. Accommodations facing the park enjoy a high quality of life and a privileged commercial positioning – window with a view as a living and strategic value.
The contemporary village
On the Via De Matthaeis frontage, the project disarticulates into a surprising fabric: squares, courtyards, loggias and passages that recall the Italian village tradition, reinterpreted with languages and performances of contemporary architecture. A sequence of public, semi-public and private spaces that reproduces the urban dynamics of an established fabric, enhancing them.
Modularity and prefabrication
Behind the formal richness lies a strict logic: housing plans and facades are built on a limited number of repeatable geometric modules. Three basic panels – press-folded copper teku, U-glass, metal louvers – combine in variable geometries, ensuring expressive variety with construction economy. An approach that optimizes construction time without sacrificing quality.
Integrated sustainability
The complex is designed in Class A: optimized solar orientation, mobile shading counterfacades differentiated by exposure, solar and photovoltaic panels on the roof, rainwater collection in underground cisterns. Sustainability is not an additional requirement, but the logic that guided every compositional and technological choice.
