The project involves the reuse of the ticket office of the adjacent multisport facility, abandoned since years and its reconversion into a coffee-bistro. The property, owned by the municipality, has[...]

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The project involves the reuse of the ticket office of the adjacent multisport facility, abandoned since years and its reconversion into a coffee-bistro.

The property, owned by the municipality, has been the subject of a call for tenders for the award to private investors, with the aim not only of renovating a run-down but mainly to combine the private?s wishes and aspirations with the public needs by means of a quality planning.
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The formula chosen by the local administration was one of collaboration to provide for the lack of resources. The main goal is to recover the building and simultaneously to improve the quality of the surrounding built-up area in a highly critical neighbourhood: An urban gap between the outskirts of Ragusa and the new expansion areas that are springing up around the city without logic; A very low building density area as a leftover of a residential expansion plan not linked to the pre-existing urban setting.
© Filippo Poli
It is a quick transit area where some services for the community persist like the sports facilities (the sports arena, the football stadium, the public swimming-pool and the riding-school), the street market, the schools, the business centre and all their respective huge parking.
The wide empty spa...