New Banca di Credito Cooperativo Auditorium, Sicily Architecture, Italian Building, Architecture Images
New Banca di Credito Cooperativo Auditorium
San Cataldo Meeting Space Refurbishment, Sicily, Southern Italy ? design by FABBRICANOV
14 Feb 2017
New Banca di Credito Cooperativo Auditorium
Design: FABBRICANOV
Location: San Cataldo, Sicily, Italy
New Banca di Credito Cooperativo Auditorium

The new Auditorium of the Banca di Credito Cooperativo (B.C.C.) “G. Toniolo” in San Cataldo born from the client’s desire to create a public space for cultural events open to the public and for hosting business private meetings. Then, a space for the residents to meet and share new cultural opportunities, and for the bank activities. The location of the project is an important issue for the design approach: San Cataldo, a small town in the middle of Sicily, is composed of traditional houses.
The auditorium is a new urban and contemporary design ‘object’ that comes as an alternative to the consolidated historical center, thanks to the project of FABBRICANOVE Architetti, an architectural office founded in Florence in 2009 by Enzo Fontana, Giovanni Bartolozzi, and Lorenzo Matteoli.

The project is situated along the main central street, where there was a cluster of houses with a single front facade, characterized by elements of classical architecture: the restriction of the Superintendence imposed the reconstruction of the original facade that i...