Pavia hosts one of the most ancient University in the world (established in 1361) and the history of the University went along with colleges since the XVI Century. Nowadays the town has 18 colleges and students’ accommodations for more than 2.500 beds for students; 1.509 beds (located in 10 colleges) are managed by EDiSU, a special agency established by the University of Pavia. The EDiSU colleges give to the students rooms (single and double) and services (libraries, study rooms, computer rooms, gym, common Kitchens) that allow to live, to study and to be formed not only as professionals but also as persons able to take high cultural and social values in the society. The EDiSU Colleges are settled in historic buildings (ex barracks, buildings from the XVI Century, buildings of the early XX Century) where the common services are usually arranged at the ground floor and the rooms are in the upper levels; sometimes the insertion of a college in an historic construction is well combined with the typological and technological characters of the building (corridors and galleries for the distribution, modular structures with walls and pillars), sometimes it is necessary to force some functions to insert in spaces not realised for the collective housing, taking advantage of the resilience of the building. So EDiSU has to study, to redesign and to reorganize its colleges (especially their common spaces) in order to satisfy the students’ needs, changed a lot in the last years. The paper wants to show some methodological starting point for the design and the management of colleges in the third millennium, and to point out them through a project for Spallanzani College, managed by EDiSU. Spallanzani is a College for 80 students (only male) in a building with the main part realized in the XVIII Century. EDiSU applied for a government grant with a project to improve the quality of its spaces (both rooms and common services) and won the 50% of the intervention costs.
New life for a XVIII Century Building: from Palace for the Aristocracy to University College
Alessandro Greco
Writing – Original Draft Preparation
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2019-01-01
Abstract
Pavia hosts one of the most ancient University in the world (established in 1361) and the history of the University went along with colleges since the XVI Century. Nowadays the town has 18 colleges and students’ accommodations for more than 2.500 beds for students; 1.509 beds (located in 10 colleges) are managed by EDiSU, a special agency established by the University of Pavia. The EDiSU colleges give to the students rooms (single and double) and services (libraries, study rooms, computer rooms, gym, common Kitchens) that allow to live, to study and to be formed not only as professionals but also as persons able to take high cultural and social values in the society. The EDiSU Colleges are settled in historic buildings (ex barracks, buildings from the XVI Century, buildings of the early XX Century) where the common services are usually arranged at the ground floor and the rooms are in the upper levels; sometimes the insertion of a college in an historic construction is well combined with the typological and technological characters of the building (corridors and galleries for the distribution, modular structures with walls and pillars), sometimes it is necessary to force some functions to insert in spaces not realised for the collective housing, taking advantage of the resilience of the building. So EDiSU has to study, to redesign and to reorganize its colleges (especially their common spaces) in order to satisfy the students’ needs, changed a lot in the last years. The paper wants to show some methodological starting point for the design and the management of colleges in the third millennium, and to point out them through a project for Spallanzani College, managed by EDiSU. Spallanzani is a College for 80 students (only male) in a building with the main part realized in the XVIII Century. EDiSU applied for a government grant with a project to improve the quality of its spaces (both rooms and common services) and won the 50% of the intervention costs.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
