Work Team
Temporary group of professionals:
Prof. Arch. Giuseppe Cristinelli (lead consultant), Arch. Emma Calebich, Arch. Giordano-Bruno Cristinelli, Arch. Dario Giuseppe Maso, Eng. Roberto Ocera (consultants).
Description and Historical Context
The intervention area is located within an open-air tourist accommodation facility, between the beach to the south and Via Francesco Baracca to the north, in the easternmost part of the Cavallino coastline.
The area south of Via Baracca (which connects the bridge between Jesolo and Cavallino with Ca’ di Valle) is characterized by the presence of tourist structures, mainly residences or campsites, which in turn feature dense vegetation and tree cover, fostering an open-air holiday atmosphere.
The project for reconfiguring the entrance to the Residence Village campsite involves the construction of a new building to serve as the reception and the reorganization of its surrounding outdoor spaces, including parking areas, driveways, walkways, and landscaping.
Project Dimensions
The intervention concerns an area of the campsite along Via F. Baracca, with an almost rectangular footprint measuring approximately 63 x 48 meters and a total area of about 3,000 sqm.
The new reception building is located in the southwestern part of the intervention area, set back 33.60 meters from the property boundary facing Via F. Baracca. Oriented north-south, it consists of a single above-ground floor and has a rectangular footprint of 11.00 x 20.00 meters, for a total covered area of 220 sqm.
Protection Constraints
Area subject to landscape protection restrictions.
Services Provided
Final design, detailed design, and safety coordination during the design phase.
The assignment also includes construction management and safety coordination during execution.
The Project
The reconfiguration project for the entrance to the Residence Village campsite involves the construction of a new reception building and the redevelopment of the related outdoor spaces, including parking lots, vehicle and pedestrian routes, and green areas.
The architectural design of the new building, aimed at addressing functional needs, resulted in a simple layout, concentrating all workspaces and related services within the main volume and identifying the portico as the sole transitional space between the staff and campsite guests.
This functional layout is reflected in the clearly legible volumetric composition of the building, articulated into two juxtaposed parallelepiped volumes.
The façades are also characterized by a simple, modular composition, where the building components are subtly highlighted through variations in materials and colors, without resorting to naturalistic elements or stylistic references to local or seaside architecture.
Both volumes feature flat roofs, including the structural thickness and rainwater containment cornices.
The rooms within the main volume are naturally lit on all four sides by a continuous ribbon window forming a horizontal band. On the north, west, and east façades, additional windows extend downward from this ribbon, maintaining continuity in the window framing.
The roof thus appears visually detached from the underlying walls.
The same architectural motif continues along the exterior sides of the portico, where a thin light slot separates the roof slab from the supporting columns, lending visual lightness to the volume.
The building is elevated on a base (plinth), differentiated from the walls and roof by finish and color.
On the west side, the base’s finish extends upward across the façade and includes the three entrance doors, introducing a contrasting motif to the vertical window extensions described earlier—this time inverted and using different materials and colors.
A notable detail on the north and south façades is the rainwater downpipe, embedded in a vertical wall slot that visually separates the main volume from the portico.
Finally, the building and its base rest on a paved platform that also encompasses the surrounding pedestrian areas, distinguished by its material and color.
The construction will use prefabricated load-bearing concrete panels manufactured off-site. The roof slabs are also made of prefabricated concrete elements.
Environmental and Landscape Integration
Environmental considerations are addressed through the building’s compact dimensions and, especially, through the use of specific materials and color palettes, including:
Roof fascia: light gray-blue slightly rough-textured plaster
Exterior window frames: lightly tinted, non-reflective glass with dark, slim-profile metal frames
Walls: white slightly rough-textured plaster
Base (plinth): yellow-ochre artificial or natural stone cladding, evoking the color of local beach sand
Pedestrian platform: green travertine or similar artificial stone cladding, recalling the colors of the lagoon waters
Outdoor Works
The outdoor works include the reorganization of pedestrian and vehicular circulation through the creation of pathways and rest areas, designated parking spaces, new paving, and enhanced landscaping with increased tree planting.
Project Documents
Technical and photographic report, maps and cartographic extracts at scales 1:5,000, 1:2,000, 1:500, site plan and tree survey at scale 1:100, design drawings at scales 1:200 and 1:100, landscape report including photographic documentation, declaration and drawings for the elimination of architectural barriers, geotechnical survey, and geotechnical report.