Master plan for th Bufalotta district and shopping center di Roma

Bufalotta Master Plan
Project: 1991 - 98
Urban master plan for a new district with 10.000 inhabitants located on the Rome GRA ring road with housing, offices, shopping center and urban park
Dimensional data: 3.314.000 Sq. mt. master plan site area, 765.000 Sq. Mt. built area, 1.500.000 Sq. Mt. urban park area

“Porta di Roma” shopping center, Roma
Project and construction: 1995-2007 shopping center, 2009-2012
hotel Supermarkets (Ikea, Auchan e Leroy Merlin), shopping mall with 250 shops, offices, hotel, three pedestrian squares and underground parking
Dimensional data: Sq.mt. 150.000 commercial, Sq.mt. 10.000 hotel and offices, Sq.mt. 230.000 public parking

The Porta di Roma shopping center is placed within the master plan for the Bufalotta district, that foresees a new neighborhood integrated within the agrarian landscape and served by a boulevard that crosses the existing hills of the site with a sensuous, curvilinear path. The shopping center complex with the hotel tower is thought as a "walled city" in local Tufo stone, characterized by a terraced base in heavy prefabricated concrete panels painted in ochre color that support a metal crowning marked by huge aluminum clad skylights. The center is a single megastructure that includes two parking levels and two floors with commercial galleries connected by multi-leveled indoor squares lit from above. A system of three outdoor squares links this main block with the two structures of Leroy Merlin and Ikea, this one marked by its blue metal cladding and cantilevered screens that mark the main entrances.

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