The Villa Fastigi SHE Project - Pesaro, Italy
COPES, Consorzio di Cooperative

Sustainable contents

- Participatory design process and building user manual

- Support to develop a new local regulation on bio-architecture

- Independent walk and cycle ways accessible by visually impaired people

- Urban improvement: Connection between inner and outer pathways

- Acoustic insulation at district and building scale

- Reduction of electromagnetic fields

- Water cycle management at district and building scale, including reuse of rainwater and reduction of domestic flows

- Sun-Air impact control: Winter solar gains and passive cooling strategies, shading devices, natural ventilation, high thermal mass and insulation

- New urban park which respects the landscape features and kitchen gardens

- Light pollution control, improvement of natural light within indoor spaces

- Centralized low temperature heating system and high efficiency boiler integrated with solar collectors

Area dimension:            150.000 m2
Building area:                 23.000 m2

Number of dwellings:            333

Site description
The eco sustainable project of Villa Fastiggi neighbourhood is characterized by the protection of the natural environment (considering the intervention sustainability in relation to space and time), by the rational use of resources and by the offered potentials of the site, according to the objectives of health, energy and environmental resources savings.

The general objectives of the project are:
- Reorganization of the suburban territory of Villa Fastiggi east, through the project area integration with the rural green in the east and north side, and with the urban area and the fluvial park area in the north-east side, by realizing a system of courses and valorising the visual and perceptive aspects of the landscape;

- Creation of a green system with cycle-walk ways that will function as urban park for Villa Fastiggi, respecting and valorising the existing landscape and botanical elements;

- Renewal and renovation of the present handicraft industrial and commercial areas located in the south side of intervention, in order to create a new commercial zone for the quarter;

- Realisation of a building system that guarantees a correct internal exposition and distribution of rooms in relation to air and sun.

Project State of Advancement