The New Oncology Centre Fiorentino by CPSE

It was inaugurated on June 7 last, at Villa Accountants of Sesto Fiorentino, the new headquarters of the Cancer Center Fiorentino designed by CSPE – Research Center Building Design. The project addresses the design of a modern health center with high technological specialization regarding the recovery of historical seniority integration a significant growth.
The design process began in 2002 with the authorization of the recovery plan that provides for the urban renewal area, dividing it into three units minimum intervention, namely: the first on the recovery of the historic core of the villa, the second They involve the new construction of the south-west of the nucleus with the existing car parks and the green of relevance and the third concerns the infrastructure works.

The difficulty to talk old and new is exacerbated by the landscape value of the place on the slopes of Monte Morello and the need to put in a context of historical and environmental value, all the high technology essential to the functioning of a modern biomedical research center .

As witnessed by the Carracci, in his book “The surroundings of Florence, Villa Accountants originated in the fourteenth century under the name New Source or the Tower. In the fifteenth century, we begin to build extensions to build the two cores of the “house master” which, in the seventeenth century, it adds the Chapel which is then connected to the villa by a new building. During the whole of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, additions and extensions continue until, in 1892, the complex was purchased by Dr. Attilio Accountants enriching the villa decor and beautify your garden with flower beds, hedges and fountain ‘ water. From 1949 to 1971, the new owner, Professor Osvaldo Meco, adapting spaces to turn it into the house nursing home: starting a series of interventions and new buildings that make up the current state inherited from the property, the company Fondiaria-SAI, which purchases the property with the intent to build a health facility last generation.
In 2000, when the survey began, the whole is in advanced state of neglect and decay. Despite the changes made during the twentieth century, the seventeenth-century plant “U” of the villa, however, is still legible and interior elements of merit as coffered ceilings, decorations, mosaics and murals that embellish the traditional tuscan bichromatic, identifying structural elements with gray and white wall surfaces filling.