The project aims to:
 

• recover a listed property, renovating an abandoned building, without land consumption and in order to achieve sustainability and densification;
• increase the social housing asset;
• reduce housing deprivation through a process of social integration of housing occupation;
• create new public space;
• use innovative management methods;
• activate a participatory process;
• boost “diversity”.

The scope of intervention is the building and social recovery of a former military base in Rome, declared an asset of historical-artistic interest by the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and for Tourism (MIBACT) and owned by the Italian Air Force, which makes it available through the cultural federalism procedure.

The building has been occupied by 56 families from 13 different countries since 2003. The project intends to maintain the community, already integrated in the life of the neighbourhood and already active in the co-design phase, through a Special Tender (Bando Speciale) in compliance with the requirements for access to Public Housing and the notice of co-design for common spaces. The roof will host a photovoltaic garden that will enable the activation of an energy community. The courtyard will be transformed into a public square accessible to the neighbourhood, in which the following services will be activated: a market with items coming from local sources, an anti-violence centre, intergenerational and technological-digital collective and community uses for distance teaching and technology transfer.

In order to enhance existing activities, spaces for handcrafts, circus training and dance will be implemented. A tea room and a sustainable mobility centre, connected to the cycle path to the metro station, will be included.