From students to students: a new project for Golgi College in Pavia

Golgi 1 and Golgi 2 (usually identified in Pavia as “Golgi College”) are two of the ten students’ accommodations managed by the University of Pavia trough the EDiSU (a special agency established by the University of Pavia and under its direct control). The College was built in two years (1975-1977) and consists of six buildings, with common services and offices at the ground floor and single independent rooms with bathroom on five floors, each one with a sharing kitchen where the students can prepare food. The structure are realised in concrete and there are some interesting solutions for the technical systems comparing them with the ones used in the housing in the Seventies of the last century. EDiSU is interested in improving the quality of the common spaces and also the performance of the Golgi’s walls board from a technological point of view, so a lot of projects where developed with the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture and the Master Degree Course in Building Engineering-Architecture. In the paper we want to show the solution developed in a final project thesis for the Master, expression of a methodology to approach the problems to rehabilitation of a students’ accommodation building. The analysis developed before the project (not only a technical survey and an historical research about the building but also a social investigation about the needs of the users) and the designed solutions (new kitchens for each floor of students’ rooms, new studying halls, common spaces for leisure time and relax but also a new façade, increasing the surface of the rooms but also improving the energetic efficiencies) are the expression of an approach able to mix new construction with a building of more than 40 years