EAV Tower
Naples
Year: 2023
Client: EAV Ente Autonomo Volturno S.r.l.
Location: Napoli
Performance: drafting of the technical and economic feasibility project, as well as the definitive project for the construction of a new office tower adjacent to the EAV management building in Corso Garibaldi, in order to improve the energy efficiency of the existing tower, the arrangement of the square in front of the station and the new office entrance.
Status: planning in progress
COORDINATION:
Proger
ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT:
Gnosis Progetti soc. coop
ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT:
Crew
PLANT DESIGN:
Hub, Italferr
STRUCTURE DESIGN:
Progin
Project amount:
€ 81.604.017,20
The restyling of the EAV tower is part of the larger renovation project of the Corso Garibaldi “Vesuvian” railway line station in Naples. This building is an artefact built in the 1970s as part of the overall arrangement of the area designed by De Luca and Marseille; 13 floors high, it has two reinforced concrete stairwells located at the ends of the tower and a metal load-bearing structure.
As part of a complete energy redevelopment of the tower which will include the review of the internal systems and partitions, the replacement of the external fixtures and the creation of a new “energy” skin is planned. The building is therefore equipped with a “second skin” of glass which will guarantee a further degree of energy efficiency. This new “skin”, located sixty centimeters from the facade, will be made up of colored glass panels of variable width equipped with amorphous silicon photovoltaic cells. This will create an “energy façade” which, given the orientation of the building, will allow the radiation from the windows and doors behind it to be eliminated. The glass panels equipped with photovoltaic cells will contribute significantly to the production of electricity leading, together with all the other measures envisaged in the plant design, to the creation of a building NZEB.
For the first two levels of the building the “new skin” will be made up of a “vertical green” system, these elements are inserted into the upper levels with an increasingly lower density, “greening” the facade.
Ultimately, a complete “retrofit” is planned for the tower which maintains only the structures of the previous factory, but which, in any case, recovers the formal principles of the successive designers. In fact, the number of horizontal positions and the logic of the aluminum sunshades (innovative for the time) as well as the shape of the building are maintained. With the new intervention, a chromatic element is introduced, a sort of color plane which introduces, in the context of the Piazza Garibaldi/Porta Nolana node, a sort of “memento” that relates this intervention with the colors of the historical culture of the area.
