Renovation, upgrading and improvement work for Carducci College
- Client Scuola Normale of Pisa
- Site Pisa
- Date of service 2018-2019
- Assignment Preliminary, definitive, detailed design phases. Health and safety coordination in the design phases
- Amount of work € 4.800.000,00
- Team Studio Associato Carafa e Guadagno, Prof. Eng. Mario Rosario Migliore, Campagnuolo & Associati srl, Eng.. Lorenzo Di Francesco
The Carducci College, used as students residence of the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, is located in the southern part of the historic center of Pisa, at Via Turati at n ° 35.
It is configured with a construction system built on eight levels including the ground floor for a total height of about 23 meters.
The structure, built in 1960, is made up of a reinforced concrete frame building, mainly with uni-directional beams, foundation is a r.c. slab with a thickness of about 50 cm. The overall volume is approximately 15,730 cubic meters for a total area of 5,000.00 sqm.
The intervention designed by Aires Ingegneria - leader f Joint Venture - is aimed in an organic way both at the seismic upgrading, and at a complete modernization of the building with architectural, distributive, functional, acoustic also finalized to achieve a “nearly zero energy building "(NZeb).
Ultimately, the design goal was to give the students back a safe, renovated and welcoming building.
The criteria that characterize the proposed structural interventions are distinguishable with respect to a due purpose: i) making the structures safe for vertical actions through a series of localized interventions; ii) seismic adaptation of the entire structure through the construction of a new seismic-resistant system consisting of r.c. shear walls on the first and second level and hysteretic steel dissipative bracing system (BRAD-type) for the remaining floors.The structural intervention is completed by new integrative foundation slab based on tubular piles Tubfix-type.
The arrangement of the additional structural elements has been studied in order to guarantee the balance between the structural needs, in terms of optimizing the dynamic behavior of the building, and the functional needs linked to the usability of the spaces and the different destination of the building also including new adaptation of exiting spaces (residential environments, multipurpose common sales, auditoriums, etc.).
The detailed design was approved in October 2019, for a total amount of the works of approximately € 4,800,000.00.