03/26/2024 – Today, Tuesday 26 March, the laying of the first stone give the start of the construction site to realize the House of the Fidenza communitywhich will be ready in about two years, in spring 2026. The new structure was built with an investment of approximately 4 million and 200 thousand euros, fully funded from the funds of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, for 3 million and 300 thousand euros and for the remaining part with funds from the MIMS (Ministry of Sustainable Infrastructure and Mobility).
The community house
With entrance from via Carducci (corner with via Malpeli) and a surface area of approximately 1,500 m2 organized on two floors, the new community house will be easily accessiblethanks to the large car park at the Foro Boario and the proximity to the train station and bus stops, for those who intend to travel by public transport.
The services that will progressively live in the community houseaccording to an order to be agreed with the various interlocutors, are: family doctors, paediatricians of free choice, specialist doctors, home nurses, all with a strong integration between them and with the social services of the Municipality. And again: the blood sampling point, the distribution of aids, the one-stop shop-CUP and the reception. In this regard, the community will be able to come to life in the new community house collaboration with volunteer associations local as an extension of the Community Point operating at the Vaio hospital.
Con Massimo Fabi and Andrea Massari, they were present at the foundation stone laying ceremony together with Andrea Deolmidirector of the Fidenza district, Andrea Mambrianiarchitectural designer of the work, the general practitioners Paolo Ronchini, Rosario Lippi, Andrea Puerari, Sergio Cazzato, Tiziano Fini, Emanuele Ferrari, Carlo Toscanithe pediatrician of free choice Lisetta Ceresini and numerous other professionals from the Local Health Authority: for the municipality of Fidenza the vice mayor David Malvisi and the councilor for social policies, third sector and associations Alessia Frangipane.
“It is with great satisfaction that today we are starting work on a structure resulting from a participatory and shared project, which will host local health and socio-health services, in which social capital will be valorised” – commented the extraordinary commissioner of the ASL Fabi – “Once the construction site is finished – has continued – this place will become the natural complement of the Vaio hospital, another excellence expressed by this territory”.
“The one we’re starting today – highlighted the mayor of Fidenza Massari – it is a very large Community House, thousands of square meters, which will respond to the needs of citizens, general practitioners and associations. The fact that we were able to start such a complex and expensive construction site in such a short time testifies to the fact that we were able to seize the opportunities offered by the Pnrr, while demonstrating at the same time that we know how to spend this funding efficiently”.
Elegance, brightness and greenery
The new building will be characterized by strong architectural elements, starting from the central body which will protrude from the north facade, giving the impression of being suspended in the air, separated from the ground floor only by a glass window. Inside, four pairs of exposed reinforced concrete pillars will support the wooden roof, also exposed, which will be “detached” from the horizontal roofs of the two lower lateral bodies, through two light cuts made up of inclined skylights which to the south they will become vertical windows. On the ground floor, the clinics will be arranged in a circle around the central space intended for a large waiting room for users: an architectural aspect that aims to underline the centrality of the citizen and the role of healthcare professionals, starting from the doctors of family and paediatricians of free choice.
In addition to the two large terraces on the first floor, there is an area intended for relaxation which overlooks the entrance hall, illuminated only by overhead light and whose wall will be greened by climbing plants. The hall will also be equipped with four flowerbeds, two built into the floor, two which delimit the balconies on the first floor. The parapets of the open staircase and all the balconies are conceived according to a single design, with a structural and furnishing function, forming a planter.
Outside, the project involves the creation of self-locking sidewalks around the perimeter of the building, with an extension at the entrance, completed with two large flowerbeds.
The stages
The new community house will be built on land owned by the Municipality of Fidenza, which has transferred the free surface rights to the Local Health Authority. The design, demolition of the old building and construction of the new community house are the responsibility of the Local Health Authority, which has entrusted the construction site to the Devi Impianti Srl company of Busto Arsizio (Varese) as part of the framework agreement announced by INVITALIA for the awarding of the investments envisaged by the PNRR/PNC. The feasibility study of the work was developed by Teresa Oddi (SAT – Technical Activities Service of the Local Health Authority) and the definitive design by Andrea Mambriani (SAT) in collaboration with Emanuele Gozzi (Ingegneri Riuniti). The executive version of the project was edited by Emilio Molinari, Ilaria Montaruli, Cesidio Serafini and Umberto Corbellini on behalf of the company awarded the contract.