Town Hall Fiumicino

The Fiumicino Town Hall follows the shape of the trapezoidal lot on which it stands. The plaza is a public space whose variable elevation offers an unusual changing view over the surrounding landscape of the town, the river and the sea. Rather than a building, the architect and the city wanted to create a town square, a place where institutions would not be separate from citizens, where people could meet and sit down and relax. There is also a café, at plaza level. The load-bearing structures of reinforced concrete have a continuous finish of tiles. A continuous glass wall covers the opposite facades. The lot, which is on a slope, is closed off by two linear blocks covered with aluminum chequer plate interrupted by strip windows. The choice of materials reveals a desire to combine traditional elements characteristic of old town centers (the granite and bricks of the square) with materials used in the modern city (aluminum).