Il Quartiere di Panzano a Monfalcone. Villaggio operaio e ville per i dirigenti del Cantiere Navale Triestino (1908-1927)

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Edino Valcovich

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Cantiere Navale Triestino, Museo della Cantieristica, museus

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The residential District of Panzano in Monfalcone. Workers’ village and Managers’ villas of Cantiere Navale Triestino. This paper illustrates and analyses the story of the residential District of Panzano, an urban area built between 1908 and 1927 for the employees of Monfalcone shipyard. Built in 1908 by the Cosulich brothers, the shipbuilding plant became one of the most important structures of this kind in the world in the 1930s. The engineer Dante Fornasir, who from 1913 to 1939 led the Association of Public Utilities Buildings—the entity designated by the Shipyard for building the area— is believed to be responsible for building the district. The first constructions, building blocks of eight apartments and townhouses, date from 1913. Progress was stopped due to the Great War. Work started again in the early twenties, after the lands under the control of the Italian Kingdom were transferred. The District was inaugurated in 1927: at that time, there were 195 buildings, of various types and degrees of sophistication, a total of 905 apartments, 39 shops and many facilities including a theatre with 480 seats, a hotel for unmarried employees, one for unmarried workers, and an athle tics and soccer stadium. The District is the proof that the industrial
bourgeoisie in what was a highly enlightened period was able to build a new town with a clear organisational model. A model where we find the factory hierarchy that precisely defines a correspondence between the individual workers’ functions (unskilled workers, workers, labour leaders, employees, officers, etc.) and the many building types (changes in size, architectural quality, attention to details, quality of the surface finish and size of the area). The architecture of the many buildings with their large articulation and variety shows on one hand the signs o f a contradictory historicist vocation and, on the o ther hand, it evinces interesting elements typical of modern urban planning and a rational infrastructure. The district, included in the Municipal Recovery Plan for several years, is currently included in a number of change of land use and recovery projects.

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