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The following project was conceived during WISH 2023, a summer workshop of social housing, under the supervision of Professor Martino Pedrozzi. The site is located in Bukhara, one of the main cities in Uzbekistan, more precisely it is composed of what remains of a noble house from the tsarist period and the area, border, between the medical university of Bukhara and the historic city. The project consists of creat- ing a student and professor housing between the historic site of the city and the new site created during the Soviet Union. The historic building, given its importance, is redeveloped as a library and study rooms, for the university and for the public. Housing is based on the concept of mahalla, that is a building, or set of them, closed to the outside and open internally to an internal courtyard. In addition to taking up the concept of mahalla for the typology, I also wanted to give importance to the Soviet system, taking up the vertical and horizontal axes from it. The building is defined by solids and voids, divided into apartments and courtyards, divided between more public and more private ones. The living areas overlook the courtyards, crowned by the bedrooms and services of each apartment. In order to guarantee privacy in each room it was revisited the traditional darkening system, while the openings in the living areas are large, as if to connect the internal spaces with the central courtyard. In the section I maintained the heights of the historical grid, by doing this the degree of importance of the historical building and the university remains, as they are a higher floor. The interior of the main building of the university was hypothesized by the Soviet typology seen during the project visit, it has a large central hall and classrooms located on the sides along a corridor. A second entrance hall is thought to have been added later. The second building was supposed as laboratories, but it was not possible to verify this supposition.

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