This is an intervention to demolish and reconstruct the clothes market pavilion in piazza della Repubblica (Clothes Market III), made possible by a public-private co-financing, in compliance with the financing Notice of the Ministry of Public Works in the Urban Requalification Programme of 1994 focusing on programmes aimed at the requalification of sectors in the city. These programmes are based on programme agreements arrived at by the Ministry for Public Works, Piedmont Region and the City of Turin. The programmes are financed with resources from the Ministry, the City and private subjects (through urbanisation charges and additional resources) which will be involved in the subsequent use of the areas.
The traders (approx. 50) who occupied the stalls inside the previous pavilion, with a rent contract payable to the City Council - owner, have set up a cooperative and have acquired a right to the space in the building to be built for 99 years, in exchange for their private co-financing of the intervention.
In the executive project the building will occupy all the surface previously occupied by the old pavilion, plus that of the pavements behind and around it. The external pavements will be reduced to a minimum. The pavilion will be pentagonal in shape, with 2 floors above ground, plus a terrace, plus 1 underground floor, car park, of a height equal to 3.2 m (the second underground car park floor which was planned cannot be constructed due to the presence of drains which run obliquely across the whole area).
In total: 5000 sq.m. of car park, 3000 sq.m. of shops, 2000 sq.m. of free internal space. Overall height: 12.5 m above ground level (as Food Market IV). The roof will be in zinc and will have a spiral type shape (very little inclined towards the ground, almost flat). The two floors above ground are linked to each other with escalators and a ramp up to the terrace, and present as a central idea of the project, a valorisation of the old underground refrigerators, which will be visible from every floor. Inside the new pavilion the shops will be distributed along the perimeter, so as to leave an empty space, in the true heart of the building, which will be crossed by a system of ramps which connect all the levels starting from that recovered with the two old underground refrigerators, on which Mario Merz will intervene, up to that of the restaurant and its terrace which will open up a new urban horizon. Each floor will house 25 commercial units, located along the north, east and south sides, with a surface area equal to 35-40 sq.m. for each stand. There will be just one pedestrian access, on the oblique side towards the centre of the piazza, naturally in addition to the access to the underground car park by means of the 2 lifts. The entrance and exit for cars will be from the west-northwest side of the building. There will be a total of 174 parking spaces in the car park.
The external surface of the building will be highly innovative: the "envelope", made using a double surface of special glass, translucid, in blocks, impact resistant and vandal proof, broken up here and there with bricks full of bronzed brass lines, illuminated, with internal cavities of approx. 1.8 m containing the safety stairs and with warm/cold air flowing through, depending on the season, which should climatise the interior.
The end of the construction work on the pavilion is set for approximately August 2003. Until that date, to allow trading activities to continue, the Third Clothes Market has been transferred to corso Giulio Cesare, 429 (entrance, Turin-Milan motorway) where a prefabricated structure has been set up.

By Council Executive decision no. 99/09392/30 of 9.11.99 the preliminary project has been updated, adding the works required for the restoration and conservation of the old refrigerators which are located under the building (archaeological excavations, consolidation and refurbishment of the domes of the refrigerators together with the structures required to render them accessible).
With decision no. 2000/10228/44 of 23.11.2000 the Council Executive has approved the executive project. The work was adjudicated on 22 May 2001 to the company "CONSORZIO EMILIANO ROMAGNOLO - Via Calzoni 1/3- 40128 BOLOGNA" which offered a bid reduction of 18.45%, equal to L. 18,448,110,000In August 2000 demolition work started, finishing in autumn of the same year.
On 3 September 2001 building work will start and is expected to last 700 days.
Cost of the preliminary, definitive and executive design: L. 716,000,000 approx. (see Council Executive decision no. 98 06037/30 of 14 July 1998).Cost of building the pavilion (as estimated in the executive project): approx. 23 billion overall, of which approx. 17 and 388 million from the City, to be financed with the issue of "Città di Torino 1999/2019" BOC; approx. 3 billion from the LL.PP. Ministry and 3 billion from private citizens.
Commissioner: City of Turin
Council Sectors: Urban reorganisation Projects Sector - Restructuring Sector and New Municipal Buildings - Olympic Buildings and Large Works Division, Contracts and Tenders Sector
Procedure Manager (responsible for design, work management, tenders etc.) for everything regarding the demolition, which has already occurred, and the reconstruction of the pavilion: Arch. Sardi - Restructuring and New Municipal Buildings Sector - Tel. 011.44.33163.
Designers, work management and safety coordination (winners of the competition notice): Temporary group of service providers: Fuksas arch. Massimiliano, Novara arch. Carlo, A.I. Engineering srl and AI Architecture, Engineering, Urban Development Studio - P.zza Monte di Pietà 30 ROME (cost of the preliminary, definitive and executive design: L. 716,000,000 approx. - see Council Executive decision no. 98 06037/30 of 14 July 1998).
The Gate Porta Palazzo Project (involved in this matter, managed by the different sectors of the city mentioned above, in regard to the relationship between this intervention and the complex of interventions planned for piazza della Repubblica and the general requalification of Porta Palazzo).
Executive Company: CONSORZIO EMILIANO ROMAGNOLO