ARS Progetti developed a specific capacity to discover and reveal the “genius loci” of each site and base on this profound understanding the design of new areas and structures or the reuse of the existing ones.
This capacity was developed through our experience as lead firm in conservation, rehabilitation and adaptive re-use of historical buildings, combined with up-to-date architectural and engineering research.
This knowledge translates in an original touch given to the design of new complexes, buildings and infrastructures, always associted with the highest level of technical and cultural expertise.
The “Urban Planning, Architecture, Engineering and Environment Department” avail themself of the “ARS Progetti Technical Office”.
Our permanent staff includes architects, engineers, quantity surveyors and tender documents specialists. Along with our associate consultants, they cover all the fields of urban planning, infrastructure, landscaping, structural engineering, architecture and environmental issues.
Today ARS Progetti’s technical office is fully equipped for architectural and engineering design and is endowed with up-to-date design software, computers, plotters, printers and survey equipment.
Our main sectors of expertise are:
Environment & water resources
Our architectural design office started to develop out of our main activity in the conservation of built heritage. Basing on this experience the firm expanded its activity to contemporary architecture tout-court, still maintaining a main interest and focus on the genius loci and on local culture. In other words we see our architectural design activity as addressing and incorporating local (cultural) values along with functional needs and applying modern technology to a better living environment.
Also our approach to engineering, beyond being based on a rigorous quality system, is to find an appropriate answer to a problem the identification and description of which must at first be agreed upon with the beneficiary. And, again, its identification and description must be consistent with the cultural, social, organisational context. We are mostly concerned with transport planning and engineering, with water resources planning and engineering and with environment. In the complex context we operate in the need of finding the best design from a technical or technical/economic point of view must be framed in a wider consideration of socio-cultural aspects upstream and downstream the work 'in se'.
Similarly to what happened with architecture we started to develop urban planning and urban design for historic centres and then expanded this activity to any kind of urban area. Our experience has brought us to see physical planning, whether at the level of a town or at the level of a region, as an integrated governance function and not as an isolated technical activity answering the demand for settlement areas, infrastructure and services. The huge urbanisation process which has been taking place in developing countries, which brought to half of the world population living in urban areas, imposes a total revision of consolidated town planning models and approaches, as it does in developed countries the immigration of people coming from developing or in any case poorer countries. This is the real challenge to be addressed in terms of adaptation, renovation or even total transformation of urban areas, to accommodate new comers, to prevent social marginalisation and conflicts, to develop the dynamic concept of inclusion and to develop the new opportunities that migratory processes disclose rather than to build unlikely fences.
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ARS For Progress
ARS For Progress
Study for the Implementation of the Archiving Centre and the Computer Network of the Ministry including Training and IT Systems
Design and Supervision of Beautification and General Improvement of three Historical, Natural and Cultural objects in the Khatlon Region of Tajikistan
Re-thinking the Sudan National Museum exposition in view of modern achievements of museology
Development of Concept for the Heritage Hub Regeneration in Areni Village and Adjacent Villages
