Florence, from engineering to the scientific pole: the university referss the complexes (and builds new ones)

Florence a summer of investments for the University of Florence. However, The latest board of directors of the University has in fact approved the executive project. Meanwhile, given the green light to the tender for the renovation of “ex geography” in via Laura, for the redevelopment of the engineering center in Santa Marta, for the expansion of the “Rise B” building and for the construction of new Cetecs and Cristo workshops in the scientific center of Sesto Fiorentino. For example, An expense that in total touches 14 million euros. For example,

Ex geography

New life for the pavilion in via Laura which once housed the Geography department. Therefore, The pavilion consisting of ten rooms arranged around an internal courtyard is accessed by passing from humanistic studies and training. Similarly, Does not pay in good condition. Nevertheless, The works florence, engineering scientific pole: university foreseen in the announcement, which amounts to 1.6 million euros. Moreover, will be carried out according to the criterion of the lower price, provide for the restoration of the roofs, which in some cases have collapsed, the general consolidation of the structure and the complete refunctionalization of the spaces and plants service at the pavilion. For example, Tramezzi will be thrown away. Meanwhile, new passages open and the internal courtyard will be closed with a glass cover “to improve the distribution of the rooms”, reads the executive project. Moreover, It will take almost two years to complete work.

Santa Marta

The procedure for the redevelopment of the fourteenth -century Villa Cristina. its large Green Park, where the faculty of Florentine engineering in Santa Marta has always been located, is much more onerous. The planned works (5.4 million euros) concern the energy redevelopment of the entire structure. florence, engineering scientific pole: university It will take almost three years to replace all the wooden fixtures of the villa. guaranteeing better energy efficiency without “altering their external appearance and philological memory”, reads the tender specifications. The project then includes the strengthening of the air conditioning system, used so far only for winter heating. The air condition will arrive overall thanks to the creation of a large central refrigerator. At the beginning the plant had been foreseen near the library. partially underground, “in a position that would certainly have caused discomfort (acoustic and dimensions) to the building and the normal performance of its university functions”, reads the specifications. So she was moved to the back of the complex, on a slightly descent ground, near the former lemon grove. It will be placed on a reinforced concrete base and will be surrounded by a large corten shielding.

To the scientific pole

The florence, engineering scientific pole: university landscape of the Scientific Pole of Sesto Fiorentino changes. With a 4. 6 million euro contract, UNIFI will build a new building intended to host the Cetecs and Crista laboratories of the University of Florence. It will take less than a year. a half for an “intervention – reads the tender specifications – aimed at filling the current deficit of spaces dedicated to research and teaching, with the aim of strengthening the university’s scientific and academic activities”. The building will be two floors. will be conceptually divided into three functional blocks – for a total of 908 square meters – dedicated to common spaces, to the laboratories of the Center for the scanning characterization techniques of probe (Cetecs) and those of the structural crystallography center (Crist) services center. “The project – reads again – also provides for the arrangement of the external areas. including ramps, sidewalks, parking lots and a florence, engineering scientific pole: university stretch of road north of the building, at the service of the parking areas”. New workshops are also planned by another call (2.6 million euros) which will serve to expand one already existing in via Madonna del Piano. This is the expansion of the “Rise B” laboratory. the project involves the construction of a new building at a plan of 537 square meters. It will host other workshops, teaching classrooms and common areas. The projects participated in the ministerial co -financing of 2021 for the intervention programs. a structural and technological modernization of the university institutions.