Services Completed:

The mechanical and electrical building services are for the residential blocks C-D-F-G-I

General Description:

The project is developed in an area in the vicinity of the Trento railway system aimed for land recovery and reutilization.

The construction foresees a series of building blocks of 4 to 5 levels aimed for residential, commercial and services use, and 2 buildings of greater importance for a museum (north campus) and a culture and science centre (south campus).

Commercial Activity:

The ground floor is largely dedicated to the commercial activity, fronted with glass windows along the axis which connects the two campuses: the museum in the north and meeting and congress centre in the south.

Residential:

Essentially the residences are distributed among the upper floors, except for some residential blocks found near park.

Services:

The services areas are mainly distributed inside the buildings that run along the axis of the railway track. This design option allows a better management of the engineering design of the eastern façade which is coincidently the most exposed to sound insulation problems. The internal spaces supported by several structural pillars at a desirable depths, can be furnished for use as individual office rooms, open offices or a combination of the two.

Mechanical services design philosophy:

• Underfloor heating
• Fan cooling
• Mechanical ventilation with heat recovery
• Methane gas supply

Each habitable unit is equipped with a metering module which measures the quantity of heating and cooling energy provided from the main grid and absorbed from the substations located underground.

Electrical services design philosophy:

• Lighting and power distribution
• Building Management Systems
• Satellite TV
• Video entryphone system
• SPD and earth system
• Communications line grid