RESTORATION OF THE PALAZZO PRETORIO, SINALUNGA (SI), ITALY
Typology
Architecture
Location
Square IV November, Sinalunga (Siena), Italy
Year
2018
Client
Municipality of Sinalunga (Siena), Italy
Cost
1.200.000,00€
Builded surface
1.600,00sqm
Total surface
1.600,00sqm
Services rendered
Final Design and Ministerial Approval (registered building)
In the project, the building is essentially made accessible from the original main entrance on Square IV November, eliminating all the partitions that have made it difficult to understand over the years. The original staircases, which had been replaced over time by the 19th-century staircase, are now the centre of attention, with vertical connections provided by two lifts: one on the corner between Square IV November and Via Mazzini, starting from the current woodshed, and the other inside the 19th-century stairwell, to reach the future boardroom on the opposite diagonal of the building. From a functional point of view, the levels will have the following uses:
– Ground floor Square IV November: Entrance with concierge and lift, next to the refreshment bar. With adaptation of the small staircase to more accessible proportions and reopening of the passageway with the current woodshed:
– Mezzanine: restoration of the opening that connected the rooms previously only accessible from street San Martino in order to use the entire floor as a museum space. Also on the mezzanine, formerly the ground floor from street Mazzini, toilets will be installed.
– First floor: rooms for office use, preserving the most representative cell, which still bears the last traces of both furnishings and wall graphics, as well as the entrance door. On this level, the door on the nineteenth-century staircase will be reopened.
– Second floor: the second floor is still accessed by climbing the original staircase, which will be adapted by adding a few steps to the landing to make the last flight less steep. The entire floor will be used for institutional offices, the mayor’s office, the council and the municipal secretary’s office. This floor is still accessed by a lift that goes up from the main entrance in Square IV November.
– Third floor attic: this floor is accessed by climbing 12 steps of the nineteenth-century staircase (compared to the second floor) and by lift inside the staircase.
Important consideration: the lift allows the travertine staircase to be retained even though it does not serve the floors below. On this level, we find the council chamber, perfectly carved out of the old courthouse. Almost a resemblance to its former use. Essentially, the second and third floors are the levels that, having continued to be used until recent times, have been most badly affected by the renovations, to the extent that they no longer bear witness to anything, except for being part of it. Meanwhile, despite the alterations made to convert them into cells, which today seem prehistoric, the lower floors are the ones that best convey the flavour of the building’s origins, even with their superimpositions.
RESTORATION OF THE PALAZZO PRETORIO, SINALUNGA (SI), ITALY
Typology
Architecture
Location
Square IV November, Sinalunga (Siena), Italy
Year
2018
Client
Municipality of Sinalunga (Siena), Italy
Cost
1.200.000,00€
Builded surface
1.600,00sqm
Total surface
1.600,00sqm
Services rendered
Final Design and Ministerial Approval (registered building)
In the project, the building is essentially made accessible from the original main entrance on Square IV November, eliminating all the partitions that have made it difficult to understand over the years. The original staircases, which had been replaced over time by the 19th-century staircase, are now the centre of attention, with vertical connections provided by two lifts: one on the corner between Square IV November and Via Mazzini, starting from the current woodshed, and the other inside the 19th-century stairwell, to reach the future boardroom on the opposite diagonal of the building. From a functional point of view, the levels will have the following uses:
– Ground floor Square IV November: Entrance with concierge and lift, next to the refreshment bar. With adaptation of the small staircase to more accessible proportions and reopening of the passageway with the current woodshed:
– Mezzanine: restoration of the opening that connected the rooms previously only accessible from street San Martino in order to use the entire floor as a museum space. Also on the mezzanine, formerly the ground floor from street Mazzini, toilets will be installed.
– First floor: rooms for office use, preserving the most representative cell, which still bears the last traces of both furnishings and wall graphics, as well as the entrance door. On this level, the door on the nineteenth-century staircase will be reopened.
– Second floor: the second floor is still accessed by climbing the original staircase, which will be adapted by adding a few steps to the landing to make the last flight less steep. The entire floor will be used for institutional offices, the mayor’s office, the council and the municipal secretary’s office. This floor is still accessed by a lift that goes up from the main entrance in Square IV November.
– Third floor attic: this floor is accessed by climbing 12 steps of the nineteenth-century staircase (compared to the second floor) and by lift inside the staircase.
Important consideration: the lift allows the travertine staircase to be retained even though it does not serve the floors below. On this level, we find the council chamber, perfectly carved out of the old courthouse. Almost a resemblance to its former use. Essentially, the second and third floors are the levels that, having continued to be used until recent times, have been most badly affected by the renovations, to the extent that they no longer bear witness to anything, except for being part of it. Meanwhile, despite the alterations made to convert them into cells, which today seem prehistoric, the lower floors are the ones that best convey the flavour of the building’s origins, even with their superimpositions.