Real Albergo dei Poveri - Naples

Real Albergo dei Poveri - Naples

Real Albergo dei Poveri - Naples

Real Albergo dei Poveri (Palazzo Fuga and also, in popular usage, or Reclusorio Seraglio) is the largest monumental palace in Naples and one of the great buildings of eighteenth-century Europe, for example front covers a continuous front of 354 meters, about one hundred meters more than the prospect of not far Reggia di Caserta. The building also has a well 430 rooms (spread over four levels), the largest of which (the former dormitory) is 8 meters in height.It dates from the mid eighteenth century. In 1751 Ferdinando Fuga was called to Naples as part of the building renewal program of the new King Charles III

of Bourbon, with the gigantic task of designing the Albergo dei Poveri addressed to accommodate the masses of poor people of the Kingdom. The work remained unfinished for which its current size (over 100,000 square feet of floor area) is only part of what should have been once the works were completed.

The project involved the construction of a structure capable of receiving and re-educate in the spirit of Pragmatic established about eight thousand of the poor beggars, vagrants and idle all over the Kingdom which, although capable of working, had no stable residence and employment. Here, guests were divided into four categories: men, women, boys and girls. The original plan envisaged a complex of buildings much larger than today. He must be spread over a large area with a table length of 600 meters and a width of 135 feet and include five large courtyards in line, was expected to be in the middle of a church plant

with six radial arms.

The building currently is being recovered. The restorations were entrusted to the rightrace in Europe, the City of Naples, owner of an international group of professionals ledby structural engineer and architect Giorgio Croci Roman French specialist DidierRepellini. Among the members of the group of European architects of the caliber ofPaul Rocchi, Pascal Prunet, Francesca Brancaccio, Nicolas Detry. Among theadvisors are professors Elio Giangreco and John Carbonara. The projects andrestoration work, in accordance with the principles of critical restoration, designed torecover lost or damaged philological parts that are identifiable and proposal for newmaterials and new technologies where knowledge is no longer recoverable in the name of simple principles of eco-compatibility and sustainability. The current cover of reinforced concrete example is replaced by a roof with solar panels, materialsoriginating as tufa, bricks and lime are used again, you restore the old wooden shutters, are recouped through a system of rain water tanks.

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