The team led by CZA (Cino Zucchi Architetti) and Politecnica, with Tatiana Milone, Dotdotdot, Stratosferica and Alberto Artioli, won the international competition for the design, restoration, and re-redevelopment of the Cavallerizza Reale complex in Turin, a vital part of the historical city centre.

This new cultural area has the aim of creating a new international cultural area in the heart of the city by mixing together new cultural, educational, hospitality, social, and administrative functions while preserving and restoring the Cavallerizza Reale, which was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.
Cino Zucchi Architetti proposed a bold vision articulated in a series of specific interventions, an ‘acupuncture’ in the body of the city to amplify the character of parts, a new place that facilitates dialogue among diverse audiences.

The goal of the project is to regenerate the Cavallerizza by reinterpreting the existing architecture and by combining urban experience with a collective commitment to nature.

The redesign of the public realm is activated by simple gestures. Stone benches, lighting elements, trees, and semicircular canopies in oxidized bronze identifying entrances. A small new square is created between the Ala del Mosca and the Pagliere to connect them and act as a vestibule to the Giardini Reali, creating a transition between the ‘concave’ space among the buildings and the green paths under the trees.
 
"The portions of new architecture inserted in the Cavallerizza do not attempt to mimic the historical forms of the existing one, neither do they fall into an easy ‘poetics of dissonance’ only to exhibit its own discontinuity with respect to them. They are in ideal continuity with a ‘Turin Modern’ both experimental and sophisticated, capable of not artificially opposing the concepts of ‘innovation’ and ‘tradition’, but rather creating a dialogue between the vision of a better future and the environmental qualities of the historic city."
Cino Zucchi Architetti


Rendering. Renovation of the Cavallerizza Reale in Turin by Cino Zucchi. Image by WOLF Visualization Agency.

The jury also considered particularly interesting the proposal of the French studio Lacaton and Vassal, because of the philosophical approach and the guidelines developed with respect to the redevelopment of the Teatro della Cavallerizza Alfieriana, as well as the ability to combine architectural composition, sustainability, social activities and culture.

The committee hopes that these two proposals can find a meeting point, particularly as regards the use of public spaces. The complexity of the intervention, in fact, suggested involving more experiences and skills.

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Group led by CZA Cino Zucchi Architetti and Politecnica, with Tatiana Milone, Dotdotdot, Stratosferica and Alberto Artioli.
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Compagnia di San Paolo.
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2022-ongoing.
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International Competition, 1st Prize.
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Via Giuseppe Verdi, 9, 10124 Torino TO, Italy.
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Cino Zucchi was born in Milano in 1955. He graduated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) in 1978 and at the Politecnico di Milano in 1979, where he is currently Chair Professor of Architectural and Urban Design and member of the teaching board of the Doctorate (Ph.D.) at the Faculty of Architecture - Campus Leonardo of the Politecnico di Milano.

He has been teaching architecture in many international seminars (Berlin 1980, Pavia 1983, Mantova 1985 and 1988, Napoli 1989, 1990 and 1991, Rotterdam 1994, Pisa 1995, Barcelona 1995 and 2000, Finale Ligure 1996, Spalato 1997, Ghent 1999, Darmstadt 2000 Zagabria 2001, Hamburg 2003, Singapore 2004) and has been visiting professor at the Syracuse University in Florence in 1989 and 1990 and at the ETH in Zürich in 1997 and 1998.

His essays and writings appeared in the magazines "Domus", "Lotus international", "Casabella", "Design Book Review", "Arch+", “Intersezioni”, “Bau” and in "Qa”, of which he has been editor from 1989 to 1885. He is in the Forum of the architectural magazine “Lotus international” since 1996. He is the author of the books L'architettura dei cortili milanesi 1535-1706 published by Electa in 1989, Asnago e Vender. L'astrazione quotidiana-architetture e progetti 1925-1970 (with F. Cadeo e M. Lattuada), published by Skira in 1999, and is editor of the book Bau-Kunst-Bau published by Clean in 1994.

With the Zucchi Architetti studio, of which he is the principal, he has designed and realized many industrial, residential and public buildings, a number of projects for public spaces (XIX Triennale outdoor exibition in Piazza Cadorna, Milano, squares in Cerea, Arzignano, Milano Gratosoglio, San Donà di Piave); renewal of agricultural, industrial and historical areas

He has participated to many national and international competitions (Opera in Paris, Lützowplatz in Berlin, Garibaldi-Repubblica area in Milano, urban escalators in S.Marino and Bergamo, Borghetto Flaminio in Rome, Tarello park in Brescia, church in Foligno-2nd prize...

The urban renewal for the former-Junghans factory in the Venice has been awarded mentions at the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Fundaciò Mies van der Rohe Award - Barcelona 2001, at the Medaglia d’oro dell’Architettura Italiana 1995-2003, 2004-2006 at the Brick Award 2004 and awarded the Piranesi Award 2001, the “Comune di Venezia“ Architecture Award 2005 and the ECOLA Award 2008, in the category "Black Bread Architecture".

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