Genoa is full of covered markets, built starting at the end of the nineteenth century and distributed to serve a large inhabited area. In 1895-99 the oriental Market was built, the first market but also the firìst public building in Italy with a structure entirely in c.a. Over the following sixty years, the design of iron pavillions alternated with that of buildings in c.a.. The general fruit and vegetable market (1924-25) marks the traqnsition from the use of cast iron and iron for structures to thet of reinforced concrete. Particularly interestinga were the structures of the rationalist period, both for the formal aspects but also for the didtributive and material ones. There are three marlets to report: that in Pegli (1932), now abandoned, the fish market (1933-34), currently being restored, and thata of flowers (1934), unfortunately demolished in 1987. The paper intends to frame the constructiona of the markets in the panorma of the political and admisitrative choices of the Municipality of Genoa which from a small densely inhabited nucleus, until 1874, gradually passed to a polycentric metropolis (1926).
La città di Genova è ricca di mercati coperti, costruiti a partire dalla fine dell’Ottocento e distribuiti a servizio di un’ampia superficie abitata. Nel 1895-99 fu costruito il mercato orientale, primo mercato ma anche prima opera pubblica in Italia con struttura interamente in c.a.. Nel corso dei sessant’anni successivi si alternò la progettazione di tettoie in ferro a quella di edifici in c.a.. Il mercato generale di frutta e verdura (1924-25) segna il passaggio dall’impiego di ghisa e ferro per le strutture a quello del c.a. Particolarmente interessanti furono le strutture del periodo razionalista, sia per gli aspetti formali ma anche per quelli distributivi e materiali. Tre sono i mercati da segnalare: quello di Pegli (1932), oggi abbandonato, il mercato del pesce (1933-34), attualmente in corso di recupero, e quello dei fiori (1934), purtroppo demolito nel 1987. Il contributo intende inquadrare la costruzione dei mercati nel panorama delle scelte politiche e amministrative del Comune di Genova che da piccolo nucleo densamente abitato, fino al 1874, passò gradualmente a metropoli policentrica (1926).
Genova città di mercati. Sessant'anni di costruzioni annonarie tra strutture in ferro e cemento armato
Rita Vecchiattini
2022-01-01
Abstract
Genoa is full of covered markets, built starting at the end of the nineteenth century and distributed to serve a large inhabited area. In 1895-99 the oriental Market was built, the first market but also the firìst public building in Italy with a structure entirely in c.a. Over the following sixty years, the design of iron pavillions alternated with that of buildings in c.a.. The general fruit and vegetable market (1924-25) marks the traqnsition from the use of cast iron and iron for structures to thet of reinforced concrete. Particularly interestinga were the structures of the rationalist period, both for the formal aspects but also for the didtributive and material ones. There are three marlets to report: that in Pegli (1932), now abandoned, the fish market (1933-34), currently being restored, and thata of flowers (1934), unfortunately demolished in 1987. The paper intends to frame the constructiona of the markets in the panorma of the political and admisitrative choices of the Municipality of Genoa which from a small densely inhabited nucleus, until 1874, gradually passed to a polycentric metropolis (1926).
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