We had already shown how the Art Nouveau building in via Mantegna, a small industrial marvel, a stone’s throw from the Jerusalem stop and via Procaccini alla Bullona, has changed its destination while maintaining the beautiful decorated concrete facade.
The little wonder is a beautiful two-storey building built in 1910 to a design by the architects F. Magnani and L. Rondoni for the Società Anonima Arti Grafiche Alfieri & Lacroix (Alfieri and Lacroix graphic factory, specialized in reproductions of three-color works of art ).
The redevelopment and conversion was carried out by Arassociati. The lot is very long and narrow, where the industrial part of the complex developed. Arassociati has reused part of the structure to transform it into splendid apartments that overlook a long communal garden.
The intervention involved the renovation for residential use of a building built as we said, in the early 1900s consisting of two buildings connected to each other and made unitary. The first, constituting the noble body and facing Via Mantegna, is made up of a three-storey building above ground characterized by an Art Nouveau style facade. The second body, on the other hand, was less aesthetically characterized, had a more real industrial connotation, regular in the structural repetition and windows, and developed in length within the property.
The intervention, thanks to the lowering of a slab on the ground floor and exploiting the considerable height of the existing floors, involved the further creation of two new floors while in the basement a car park with garage was built to serve the housing units.
According to the needs of the property and the market, various types of apartments have been created: two-room apartments that can be combined, three-room or four-room apartments and also particular town-houses on duplexes with gardens. Where permitted by the distances from the borders, a series of balconies was also built to serve the corresponding housing units.
In the redevelopment of the building, green arrangements were also planned to refine the internal courtyard and along the border wall of the neighboring school.
