The co-housing community.

Housing units for social housing are provided in different areas to meet the needs of large families or those of young couples. The establishment of families in low-income housing provides for a community project through the acceptance of a regulation and the formation of a cooperative that carries out public and private building maintenance activities and which manages neighborhood services. The goal is to promote the birth of a community that can not only inhabit the neighborhood but live and animate constructively the entire area around the project. The "condominium" is based on the principles of multiculturalism, proximity and environmental sustainability. Living in co-housing means accepting ethical and social goals set out in the regulation and participating actively in community life. Some municipal advisors will assist the creation and development of the cooperative with particular attention to the economic and administrative aspects of entrepreneurship. In particular, they will be promoted and developed through the assistance of specialized operators nursery, afternoon and evening language classes, arts and crafts, organization and social events for young and old. The arts and crafts school will be closely linked to the artisanal activities related to the conservation and development of Sardinian tradition and, in particular, the Oristano. The business area is comprised of stores that are large enough to meet the needs of food and neighborhood services but also want to encourage, in particular, the preservation and development of Sardinian local tradition. There are plans to develop sculpture and woodworking workshops, quarry stone processing such as obsidian stone, leather processing, fine textile processing, re-design of nuragic clothing, sale of special local gourmet products. These activities will be linked to neighboring schools and will promote workshops and seminars, attracting people and particularly tourists interested in specialized and unique products. The showcases are sized like that of a craft shop exalted by the treatment of clay and lime plaster for those on the street fronts, while for the shops inside the square the greenhouses serve as showcases for displaying the products . The public office building forms a fifth between the square and the building of the Social Housing, it is built on two levels with its front on the side of the public porch space.

Public spaces of social aggregation and the market. While the piazza in the tradition of places is not identified as a true public space, but is subordinate to the needs of the farmhouse, in this context it is necessary to recapture the function of the center as a fulcrum and container of public functions such as church, commune, School or otherwise turns into "weekly market". So the Sardinian term practices (lat. Platea), which mostly means the courtyard of the private home and secondarily the square in the normal Italian term, so in practice it means "in the courtyard" rather than "in the square". And so "in the middle" of the square and the courtyard is the fragmented market, scattered or even "widespread" as an appendage of the house, what was the shelter for the tools is now the fruit grove, the cellar attached to the house Now becomes the fisherman's bench displaying its product, the barn is the seller of typical products of Sardinian tradition. So the market, in the two days of the week, is located in the alleyways, in the main square next to the boundaries of the area, with its stalls and the buzz of the customers making the place "alive" with a size attributable to that of the back court, Strong sign of this territory, and then disappear away by giving way to other activities and other uses. Specifically, the seats foreseen in the project for pedestrians are 50, as indicated in the Call, meeting the need of the body promoting the decongestion of the streets where banks are still present. Areas of 20 sqm were planned. For exclusive use for parking, and an additional frontal space of 24 square meters. For the rest of the clients, it is thus an area of ​​44 square meters. The paths are characterized by the gates between the buildings, the porticoes from the central roof that develops longitudinally between the two volumes. The benches are arranged in a homogeneous way between the built-in open spaces and the internal paths between the buildings, mixing them with their shingle roofs and colored coverings. The layout of the stalls layout is predefined and well-identified according to the type of product
 

Technological equipment facilities

The design aspect is addressed in the design proposal using architectural solutions that integrate the membrane by implanting the constituent element of the plant, and attention has also been paid to the use of alternative energy sources such as photovoltaic and cogeneration . Photovoltaic roofs will be realized with the use of high efficiency panels made of polycrystalline solar cells, the surface area of ​​about 500 square meters. Estimated will be a real power plant for the use of the buildings built up and the needs of the electrical consumption of the entire work. The use of cogeneration requires a gas distribution network in the area concerned, and research is being carried out in the province of Oristano and throughout Sardinia as a major investment for the next few years with the aim of developing the methanization network and its use. In this context, a cogeneration plant is an ideal tool to reduce energy-related costs by making the investment and the most cost fully recoverable. As far as the air conditioning system is concerned, a centralized heat pump system powered by electricity or methane gas will be used, thus achieving very high yields. The placement of these plants is located in the basement area where a dedicated space will be provided, managed autonomously and without interference with the activities placed on the surface, but above all will be concealed to the view and integrated within the volume of the parking lot . Much attention has been paid to the recovery and reuse of rainwater, made by a rainfall conveying system, resulting from meteoric precipitation, on roofs of buildings in underground reservoirs, and subsequently by immersion pumps are used to integrate l 'Irrigation system of flower beds and green spaces. Residential and commercial air conditioning systems are operated by using low temperature water produced by heat pump systems, to enhance the efficiency of the machines, the fluid flows into drowned pipes in floor screeds and / or false ceilings Of the business premises, providing warmth to the environments uniformly, accentuating the interior comfort. In order to complete the integration of the air conditioning system, it is also planned to install solar panels and any storage tanks for the production of hot water or alternatively with the only heat exchanger function. Project Addresses on Material Design and Construction Techniques As mentioned in the previous paragraphs, the orientation of materials choice is to prefer finite artifacts of surrounding sites as well as the use of constructive techniques that are typical of Sardinian tradition. Different materials have been chosen for the flooring: for pedestrian areas a gravel-treated treatment with colored concrete in the porches has been used for the use of broken stone in the local stone, while the pavement Drainers such as stabilized ground blades or dry bricks. For shading elements placed on the shelves, enamelled refractory refractory material was used, while the shading curtains of the stalls were conceived in colored cotton. For the facades of the residences, the use of lime plaster was preferred, such as the recall of the raw construction of the Campidano's architectural tradition. Always with reference to the tradition of these places, the use of construction techniques has been resumed, especially for the construction of wooden structures and the use of ventilated roofs.

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Principles of bioclimatic.

The technological system present in the idea of ​​the project is facilitated and is made even more efficient by the spatial characteristics and shape of the constructed, not only of the volumes present but also of the positioning of the alive species and especially in reference to the orientation of the hypothesized complex. The already well-established guidelines of bioclimatic technology, applied to urban architecture, can be synthesized in the identification of local climatic factors which are specifically the identification of the predominant winds, distance from the sea or lagoon, orography Of the land. The analysis was carried out in both summer and winter periods, studying the factors mentioned and exploiting their influence. During the summer, the need for shading public spaces is guaranteed by canopies along pedestrian paths made of ceramic elements, and in the installation of point guards in squares or open areas. In the building, the presence of porches and shading systems attenuates the irradiation factor and creates fresh air movements within the spaces. The generated movement is of two types vertically within the constructed, the other horizontal that occurs between the spaces of the crosses of the lot. The arrangement of rows of trees longitudinally placed between the two edges of the building further enhances the shading index, giving an additional contribution to the above-mentioned effect. In the winter period, the presence of the tree arrangement creates a barrier to the cold currents coming from the north and the hillsides, as well as in smaller quantities the contribution of the existing building facing the new volumes hypothesized. The presence of greenhouses in homes and commercial premises, which, among other things, also have a showcase function, always contribute to heating the air in the winter. We want to point out that the decrease of some degree of temperature of a built-up space or the absence of currents in an open space is perceived in terms of well-being positively by the users of the places, the alternation of these events in summer / winter periods The goal that was to be achieved in the intentions of the design idea.