The project for the Faculty of Economics in Urbino was realized between 1986 and 1999 and pursued adjusting the historical meaning to the new university. Between 1958 and 1964 De Carlo’s building had the intervention of conservation on the aggregate of the existing buildings. The section of the building, which was studied, approach De Carlo’s manifests to pre-existences. It states the equilibrium between conservation and the will to translate the constructive language, which is contemporary to him, into concrete, through a new architectural stratification of the building, for instance: the mirrored pool of the two new towers, a clear solution, chosen to relate the new presence of the whole building to the volume of service with the historical material form. New openings in the windows are designed to make space able to testify to the clarity, the timelessness of the intervention. And all of this happened without the integration with the pre-existence, only through geometries, shapes, and colors in a balanced material relationship. 

Authors: Patrycja Wesołowska, Filip Pawłowski, Anna Szefer

References:

http://www.archimagazine.com/bdecarlo.htm?fbclid=IwAR1EnwaMRllFymaRjGp8g0vddhWJbn_gzqKeOYCKbGWG_bwA5pqtfuv36yo

Architetti d’Italia. Giancarlo De Carlo, l’isolato