Rome-based studio Alvisi Kirimoto has created an affordable housing complex with a brick facade and perforated metal balconies to help regenerate a neighbourhood in Barletta, Puglia.
Named Viale Giulini, the C-shaped building wraps around a courtyard and comprises 50 residential units, an underground car park and commercial units built across six floors.
Top: Viale Giulini Affordable Housing by Alvisi Kirimoto. Above: the design employs a monochromatic colour scheme
Located in northern Puglia, on the outskirts of Barletta, Alvisi Kirimoto designed the C-shaped building as part of a group of projects that aim to regenerate the neighbourhood.
"The project, conceived as the 'zero point' of a general redevelopment of this part of the city, breaks away from the typical forms of social housing construction," explained Alvisi Kirimoto co-founder Massimo Alvisi. Balconies are constructed using perforated metal sheets
The studio employed a simple, monochromatic design for the project, which was chosen to contrast with the decorative buildings that surround the complex.
It chose a uniform grey colour  for the brick exterior, which frames a series of protruding and recessed white perforated-metal balconies.
The design wraps around a grassy courtyard
"Rigorous lines, essential shapes and balanced colours: the result is a simple and refined design ? in contrast with the eccentricity of the surrounding buildings," the studio said.
"The regularity of the elevatio...