PINQuA Porto Fluviale Rec House

Mission 5 Component 2 – Investment 2.3 - PINQUA 
Italy's Recovery and Resilience plan provides for the development of new public residential buildings to address housing challenges, especially focusing on existing public assets and revitalizing degraded areas. The emphasis is on green innovation and sustainability.
The investment consists of two main strategies, both executed without using new land:
- Upgrading and expanding social housing, enhancing urban quality, improving accessibility and safety, addressing housing shortages, and boosting environmental quality. This involves employing innovative models and tools for urban management, inclusion, and well-being.
- Targeted initiatives on public residential buildings with significant strategic impact nationally. The selection of funding proposals will be based on indicators that assess the environmental, social, cultural, urban-territorial, economic-financial, and technological-processual impacts of the projects.

The investment is financed by Italy’s Recovery and Resilience plan by EUR 1.4 billion.

This project is part of this investment and it aims to:
- recover a listed property, renovating an abandoned building, without land consumption and in order to achieve sustainability and densification;
- increase the social housing asset;
- reduce housing deprivation through a process of social integration of housing occupation;
- create new public space;
- use innovative management methods;
- activate a participatory process;
- boost “diversity”.
The scope of intervention is the building and social recovery of a former military base in Rome, declared an asset of historical-artistic interest by the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and for Tourism (MIBACT) and owned by the Italian Air Force, which makes it available through the cultural federalism procedure.

The building has been occupied by 56 families from 13 different countries since 2003. The project intends to maintain the community, already integrated in the life of the neighbourhood and already active in the co-design phase, through a Special Tender (Bando Speciale) in compliance with the requirements for access to Public Housing and the notice of co-design for common spaces. The roof will host a photovoltaic garden that will enable the activation of an energy community. The courtyard will be transformed into a public square accessible to the neighbourhood, in which the following services will be activated: a market with items coming from local sources, an anti-violence centre, intergenerational and technological-digital collective and community uses for distance teaching and technology transfer.

In order to enhance existing activities, spaces for handcrafts, circus training and dance will be implemented. A tea room and a sustainable mobility centre, connected to the cycle path to the metro station, will be included.

This project is financed by the Recovery and Resilience Facility with EUR 11.000.000,00