CASA DEI VIALARDI - Restoration, conservative renovation, and refunctionalization interventions.

Investments in projects of urban regeneration, aimed at reducing situations of marginalization and social degradation (Mission 5 – Component 2, Investment 4) 

Italy’s Recovery and Resilience Plan provides municipalities with grants for investments in urban regeneration, to reduce marginalization and social degradation as well as to improve the social and environmental context of urban centres. The measure aims at supporting the reuse and re-functionalization of public areas and existing public building structures for purposes of public interest, and at improving the urban landscape through renovation of public buildings, with particular attention to the development of social, cultural, educational and didactic services, including sporting activities.

The investment is financed by Italy’s Recovery and Resilience plan by EUR 2 billion.

The project CASA DEI VIALARDI is part of this investment and it aims to restore and repurpose the Vialardi’s house located in the city center, adjacent to the Vercelli Town Hall.

In paricular, the Administration has expressed the desire to restore the property to give it the deserved recognition of its historical and artistic value, while also enhancing the use of the network of buildings designated for public use in the immediate vicinity and within the historic core.

The project has therefore analyzed various aspects (through site visits, tests, stratigraphic, geological, and archaeological analyses, described in specific reports) to combine the essential need for a conservative restoration with functions and roles attributed to the property, in full respect of the previous distribution layout before the most recent alterations.

The examination of the property and its immediate surroundings, with their potential and inherent peculiarities, allows us to design architectural solutions that propose a layout suitable for the functions envisioned by the Municipal Administration and respectful of the historical context, in terms of distribution, systems, and structure. The implementation of these solutions is of fundamental importance to ensure a careful and consistent restoration, efficient use of the building, its actual utilization, and consequently, its preservation.

The total cost amounts to EUR 1.8million included in the RRF, EUR 220.000  allocated by the Italian government to mitigate the cost increase resulting from the rise in raw material prices and EUR 320.000 co-funded by the Administration.

The project has been awarded, and the construction works will commence shortly, with a final deadline for completion by the Q2 2026.