Three recoveries: a neighbourhood hall, a farmhouse B&B, a civic hall on the square
What the track asks
A sealed envelope with three alternative practical-exam themes (Section A, 5 hours): three interventions on existing buildings, between recovery and reconstruction, each with its linked first written test (justify the choices, the construction system and the sizing). THEME 1 — the ruin of a late-19th-century warehouse on the edge of the historic centre (10.30×21.30 m, masonry, roofless): refurbishment and extension (+45% floor area) into a neighbourhood hall for public meetings, small screenings and workshops, with the landscaping of the rear green area facing a park; required are 100 seats with a storage room, two offices ≥15 sqm, four toilets (one for disabled users), 20 parking spaces and an outdoor-activities area. THEME 2 — a partly abandoned early-20th-century rural farmhouse (rendered masonry, timber-joist floors, timber roof): refurbishment with traditional techniques as a bed and breakfast with two rooms (baths ≥4 sqm), one room with a disabled bath, a breakfast room and a two-room flat for the managers, with a 40% floor-area increase in adherence or as a detached body and five parking spaces. THEME 3 — the reconstruction, on its original footprint, of a demolished public building that redefines the north-east side of the main square of a small settlement on a Romagna hill ridge (the site of the old fortress destroyed in the 17th century): a civic hall for conferences, events and exhibitions exploiting the terrain — with the lower floor at −3.50 m reached from the east — and reopening, if well shaped, the view toward the sea; 100 seats, storage, two offices ≥15 sqm, four toilets (one for disabled users). Shared deliverables: dimensioned 1:100 plan with furniture and attention to barrier-free rules, a section and two 1:100 elevations, and a ground-to-roof construction detail (1:20 or 1:10) attentive to energy containment.
Required drawings
Shared by the three themes: dimensioned general plan of the various floors 1:100 (with furniture and compliance with barrier-free rules); at least one significant section and two elevations 1:100; at least one ground-to-roof construction detail (1:20 or 1:10) — ground floor slab, intermediate floor and roof — showing attention to energy containment. Linked first written test: justify the choices, the construction system and the structural sizing.
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