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City Hall and classroom are arranged on an axis parallel to the Via Emilia. On an axis perpendicular to this are a covered market and a fountain that define a place of collective life immediately in front of City Hall and near the Municipal Library. At this point the park becomes a garden, a meeting place and vantage point for the classroom beyond the long lawn. The fountain is placed on the alignment of the section of Martyrs of
Kefalonia that connects the area with Via Emilia. Between the covered market and the classroom, a long arcaded building parallel to Gramsci Street defines the edge of the park to the northeast and the boundary between the public place and the area designated for residential use. The arcaded building contains on the ground floor all those activities in direct contact with the public (stores, bars, restaurants, artisan workshops), on the first and second floors activities such as offices, professional offices, etc., and forms the edge of a large square that coincides with the park and defines its shape through the relationships between different public buildings. The space in front of the long portico, facing southwest, can be a pleasant outdoor seating area for bars, restaurants, etc. Behind the porticoed public building, a system of five parallel, six-story-high in-line buildings oriented northeast/southwest contains the residence facing large garden courtyards. The project area is a block between Martiri di Cefalonia, Gramsci and Europa streets, the only planned vehicular roads serving the area on the perimeter and leading to the underground parking lots. The roads within the area are of very small cross-section and are to be considered store service and emergency roads. The City Hall-hall axis is parallel to Gramsci Street and confirms the direction of Emilia Street, which is the matrix of the San Donato settlement. The vacant areas along Gramsci Street in the direction of Correggio Street make it possible to assume the continuation of the settlement principle by placing other public buildings in addition to the City Hall and the multi-purpose hall so as to transform Gramsci Street into the central place of the entire urban settlement of San Donato.