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City of Sun in Rome
Italian Mixed-Use Architecture: Housing, Office and Shops in Italy ? design by Labics, Architects
29 Jan 2018
City of Sun
Architects: Labics
Address: Via Arduino, Roma
Location: near Via della Lega Lombarda & Tiburtina Station, East Rome, Italy
City of Sun
Winning competition entry for the redevelopment of an urban area, including the transformation of an existing bus depot to integrate a mixture of uses including office, retail space and residential units.

This project is part of the Municipality of Rome?s initiative to redevelop a number of transport depots within the city in conjunction with local public transport authority ATAC. It involves the regeneration of a neighborhood with a weak identity but with good growth potential due to its location at the edge of the city centre. Labics? aim therefore was to create a new centre for the local community, but also to increase its profile as a place of transition with privileged access to the city centre. The development of the site has been designed to be porous, allowing good access to and from the site, encouraging the flow of people and demonstrating Labics? philosophy that cities should be built around systems rather than as a series of objects. Public realm space is not seen as residual but is fully integrated with the built elements ? so, for example, the basement space becomes the load-bearing struc...