Albano Rubicini

Thesis in Architectural Design

Redevelopment of the “Cino e Lillo Del Duca” Stadium in Ascoli Piceno

Thesis by Albano Rubicini

Contact email: albano.rubicini@alice.it
POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE University - Ancona Faculty of Engineering
Five-year Master's Degree Course in BUILDING ENGINEERING-ARCHITECTURE
Speaker: Prof. Arch. Paolo Bonvini
AA 2010 - 2011 (Date: October 21, 2011)

General and synthetic lines of the Thesis:
In Italy, the issue of redevelopment of old football facilities is becoming increasingly important, as they are often characterized by extensive degradation from both an architectural-structural and functional point of view.
In the Italian context, in fact, stadiums constitute foreign bodies within the urban apparatus, "aliens" that in many cases the city institutions would like to transfer to peripheral areas, far from the heart.
of the city.

With this logic, many of the problems connected with the specific increase in vehicular and pedestrian traffic concurrent with the sporting event are undoubtedly resolved, as well as
to welcome all those fans who come to the facility from the city or the surrounding towns to watch the sporting event, and which the provisions of the Pisanu Decree have helped to accentuate,
determining, for the older systems, also the need to block city traffic in large parts of the city.

By moving these facilities away from the city centre, however, we end up impoverishing the city of an opportunity for development for degraded and forgotten areas of the city fabric itself, in which the Stadium could
constitute the fulcrum for a reconquest of these important abandoned areas, returning them to the citizens. This process appears to be very developed both in England and in Germany.

The present project for the redevelopment of the “Cino e Lillo Del Duca” Stadium in Ascoli Piceno, aims precisely at these goals. The ultimate aim is to transform an old and degraded facility into a stadium
modern, multifunctional and therefore aimed at all citizens 365 days a year and not just the fans who flock to the stadium every 15 days to watch the sporting event, through the creation of spaces
commercial and completely at the service of the citizens, consequently also providing new meeting places in addition to those already existing in the city.

This aim is pursued both by acting on the current road system, remodelling it so that it is able to divide pedestrian and vehicular flows into two parallel and non-intersecting planes, with the right consequences from the point of view of safety, and by working on the existing sports facility, recovering it structurally and at the same time improving it both aesthetically and functionally through the addition of a new skin and a solar covering that seeks in technological progress in the field of architecture and engineering, the best solutions for the sustainability of the facility from an economic, environmental and energy point of view, creating at the same time a modular system applicable in most of the Italian facilities susceptible to redevelopment.