This residential multi-housing project is an effective example of how architectural strategies can reinforce the links between building, user and context. By acknowledging the city’s built heritage, Fabbrica asserts its place in the collective memory, while its modern vocabulary poses a gesture of openness to the outside.

Informing the project from start to finish was a green, innovative outlook that included restoring the outer shell, making use of existing materials and expanding the building without extending its footprint to create sensitively designed dwelling units for its new occupants.