The city of Cagliari is characterized by strong environmental and landscape features.

Historically, it developed near the hills, close to the coast, following a settlement pattern that generated blocks primarily composed of terraced residential buildings. These terraces were created to resolve the differences in elevation and hillside slopes, while also engaging with the complex coastal system.

In the 1930s, following the economic recovery that affected all of Italy, the first major urban expansion was implemented in Cagliari through a development plan that led to the creation of the San Benedetto neighborhood, to the east of the historic Villanova district.

San Benedetto, unlike the historic neighborhoods that are located close to the sea and urban hill systems, is positioned in a flat area and is influenced by large urban plans from the late 1800s. These plans include wide avenues that, starting from Piazza San Benedetto, radiate out and connect all the blocks in the area, linking them to each other and to the rest of the city.

Among the urban axes, via Dante Alighieri stands out in importance. It is the only tree-lined avenue in the neighborhood and has become one of the main commercial and social gathering streets of the city.

The neighborhood is characterized by the presence of 5- or 6-story buildings, constructed flush with the street, which saturate the landscape, interspersed with squares and paved public areas. In this primarily residential district, there is almost a total absence of public green spaces that are easily accessible to citizens.

The Urban Revolution project is located within the consolidated urban area, near via Dante Alighieri and Piazza San Benedetto, the central hubs of the entire neighborhood.

The project site, mainly situated within an urban block, was fully built with a series of service buildings attached to the internal boundary wall and a central industrial-artisanal building without architectural value.

The first step in the project was the demolition of all the existing buildings on the site, restoring the original urban void to accommodate the new residential building.

Subsequently, it was decided to "challenge" the status quo of the area by breaking the visual and construction monotony of the neighborhood, which had been built strictly flush with the street. The new building mass was shifted towards the rear of the plot, maintaining the minimum distance from the boundary permitted by current regulations.

This design move shifted the free space towards the street, introducing new compositional perspectives and new project possibilities.

The opening of a breach in the built-up frontage created a new urban area, a connection zone between the building and the public street, providing a green space for the block and mitigating the gaps in the neighborhood.

The new micro-park corresponds to the needs of today's life, rediscovering the need for a relationship with nature even within the city and creating a social space to be experienced safely.

The building conforms in size and height to the surrounding structures. It consists of 5 above-ground floors plus an attic with a rooftop terrace that includes a large private pool.

The typical floor features three large apartments: two with the living area facing the park and the sleeping area at the rear; one apartment facing only the rear.

The project is characterized by strong, essential lines that emphasize the horizontal, while mitigating, through perspective games, the perception of the building's imposing scale.

Four elements strongly characterize the design approach: the load-bearing walls, the windows, the terraces, and the brise-soleil.

The load-bearing walls act as generators and classifiers of space. The massiveness of the solid walls creates an opaque curtain that protects the interior spaces, and through a series of translations and displacements, it forms a geometric pattern that creates a play of light and shadows, giving character to the entire project.

The windows define the façade facing the new public space. Their positioning in this part of the living area allows the internal units to open up to the new urban space, thus creating a dialogue and connecting the private space with the public one.

Large terraces, varying in size depending on the spaces they serve, wrap around the entire building, providing private outdoor spaces that respond to the need for open spaces in an urban context while creating a filter zone between the external public space and the private internal space.

Thanks to a visually impactful finish and the study of lighting with LED strips running along each profile, the terrace becomes a defining element of the entire building.

The brise-soleil, introduced as a finish to protect the interior spaces from the strong summer solar radiation, strongly defines the project, becoming the leitmotif of the entire complex. With a dark metallic finish, it wraps around all the terraces of the building, connecting the rear with the front, creating a cohesive visual reading of the entire structure and producing a play of chromatic contrasts with the bright tiles of the residential walls.