Removal of prefabricated “ex-canteen” artifacts and subsequent restoration and redevelopment of the site area for construction of a plaza for physical and athletic activities at the Central Fire Schools, Capannelle (Rome)

Removal of the prefabricated “former canteen” buildings and subsequent restoration and redevelopment of the site area for the construction of a square intended for physical and athletic activities at the Central Fire Schools, Capannelle (Rome)

The intervention in question, together with the redevelopment of the classroom building, aims to recover architecturally and functionally some areas of the Central Fire Schools (Capannelle, Rome), respecting the historical and cultural vocation of the place, through ordinary maintenance works aimed at an overall redevelopment of the area, removing superfetations and temporary post structures.

The main purpose of the intervention is the decommissioning of the prefabricated former canteen bodies currently used in part as carpentry/shoring workshop and the demolition of the underlying reinforced concrete basement, an intervention preparatory to the realization of the subsequent restoration and redevelopment of the demolished buildings’ site area and construction of a square for physical and athletic activities.

The study is based on an operational model to identify and plan work steps according to:

• Type of artifacts to be dismantled;
• Available divestment technologies;
• Possible presence of structural portions to be preserved.

The operational choices described in this report take into account important target-parameters involved in the divestment project:

• Identify and plan all activities related to the dismantling work with special attention to the context in which the artifacts to be decommissioned fit;
• Ensure the safety and security of the operators who will perform the work and all subjects/assets outside the construction site area;
• Minimize the time required to perform the intervention.

The building to be removed consists of a single building body developed on one above-ground floor, with a height at the eaves of about 3.50 meters and a height at the ridge of 5.50 meters.

The load-bearing structure consists of a metal frame with vertical and horizontal elements. The building body features four blocks with pitched roofing, consisting of prefabricated panels, as well as infill and partitioning. The entire building body rests on a ca ca basement for an above-ground height of about 40 cm.

The strip-out and subsequent removal intervention, as already reported, is preparatory to the restoration and redevelopment of the area where the artifacts planned at the time were housed as temporary and subsequent construction of a plaza for physical and athletic activities. Therefore, it is planned to remove the prefabricated artifacts subject to Strip-Out: Strip-Out intervention consists of “completely removing,” emptying a property by preparing it for the actual demolition of the structure.

The intervention following the Strip Out and Removal Works planned for the prefabricated former canteen and carpentry/shoring workshop bodies, is that relating to the redevelopment of the site area of the demolished artifacts, arriving at the creation of a plaza for physical and athletic activities, designed starting with the choice of eco-sustainable and innovative materials, such as that of a draining resin with pigmented aggregates, which will reproduce the Fire Department symbol in the center.

The square will look like a kind of open-air theater, circumscribed and defined on 3 sides by terraces, born from the recovery of some sections of the same preserved over time.