RESTORATION AND SEISMIC ASSESSMENT OF PALAZZO PALLOTTA, CALDAROLA (MC), ITALY
Typology
Architecture
Location
Square Vittorio Emanuele, Caldarola (Macerata), Italy
Year
November 2021 – currently in progress
Client
Municipality of Caldarola (Macerata), Italy
Cost
13.221.238,64€
Builded surface
4.738,72 sqm
Total surface
10.488,68sqm
Services rendered
Seismic assessment, Final design, Executive design, Project management, Safety coordination principal in rtp
Following the earthquakes of 2016, the project involves the restoration of the historic monumental complex of Palazzo Pallotta, a clear example of the Mannerist development of Renaissance architecture at the end of the 16th century, used as the Town Hall, National Art Gallery of the Resistance and Civic Museum. The Palazzo stands in the centre of Caldarola and, together with the collegiate church of San Martino, forms a building complex of great importance. Its architectural layout includes the square in front of it, probably designed as a single project to be enclosed on three sides by porticoed buildings, as suggested by the fresco in the Council Chamber (known as the Salone Cardinali Pallotta). The palace is still considered a “clear model of the Mannerist developments in Renaissance architecture” and is the symbol of the radical urban transformation that took place between 1587 and 1620, or rather the transition from a medieval town to a Renaissance city, achieving an urban-architectural character that is still indistinguishable today. Based on historical and construction studies and analyses of the evolution of the monumental complex, carried out in collaboration with the Sapienza University of Rome, specialist surveys and structural investigations, seismic improvement measures were developed and designed, such as the repair of cracks, the damping of masonry piers, reinforcement of load-bearing walls, steel bracing, replacement of roofing structures and consolidation of foundations with micropiles and piles, and the building and plant engineering works necessary for the new layout and functional configuration of the rooms, carried out in accordance with philological restoration and the preservation of the original typological and architectural characteristics of the historic complex, allowing for its new use.
RESTORATION AND SEISMIC ASSESSMENT OF PALAZZO PALLOTTA, CALDAROLA (MC), ITALY
Typology
Architecture
Location
Square Vittorio Emanuele, Caldarola (Macerata), Italy
Year
November 2021 – currently in progress
Client
Municipality of Caldarola (Macerata), Italy
Cost
13.221.238,64€
Builded surface
4.738,72sqm
Total surface
10.488,68sqm
Services rendered
Seismic assessment, Final design, Executive design, Project management, Safety coordination principal in rtp
Following the earthquakes of 2016, the project involves the restoration of the historic monumental complex of Palazzo Pallotta, a clear example of the Mannerist development of Renaissance architecture at the end of the 16th century, used as the Town Hall, National Art Gallery of the Resistance and Civic Museum. The Palazzo stands in the centre of Caldarola and, together with the collegiate church of San Martino, forms a building complex of great importance. Its architectural layout includes the square in front of it, probably designed as a single project to be enclosed on three sides by porticoed buildings, as suggested by the fresco in the Council Chamber (known as the Salone Cardinali Pallotta). The palace is still considered a “clear model of the Mannerist developments in Renaissance architecture” and is the symbol of the radical urban transformation that took place between 1587 and 1620, or rather the transition from a medieval town to a Renaissance city, achieving an urban-architectural character that is still indistinguishable today. Based on historical and construction studies and analyses of the evolution of the monumental complex, carried out in collaboration with the Sapienza University of Rome, specialist surveys and structural investigations, seismic improvement measures were developed and designed, such as the repair of cracks, the damping of masonry piers, reinforcement of load-bearing walls, steel bracing, replacement of roofing structures and consolidation of foundations with micropiles and piles, and the building and plant engineering works necessary for the new layout and functional configuration of the rooms, carried out in accordance with philological restoration and the preservation of the original typological and architectural characteristics of the historic complex, allowing for its new use.