A university residence designed by Scandurra Studio opens in Brescia, built in ten months
A university residence with 252 beds, built with a predominantly timber structure and completed in just ten months. This is what sets Camplus Brescia Lamarmora apart — the new residence inaugurated yesterday in Brescia, designed by Scandurra Studio, responsible for the architectural design and artistic direction. XLam construction technology, based on prefabricated structural timber panels assembled dry, made it possible to complete the building — furnishings included — in less than a year, with a fast, controlled and low-emission construction site. Building an entire project of this scale predominantly in timber remains an uncommon choice today: a contemporary direction that shows how industrialisation of the process, architectural quality and sustainability can move forward together.
Conceived by Alessandro Scandurra, the project interprets the student residence as a living part of its neighbourhood. A public park rises over the podium and gives back to the city as a new shared open space, while the communal areas gather around a courtyard of light. The rooms, spacious and served by large windows, bring natural light into every space, and the façades set their own rhythm between cream-coloured plaster, a brass-toned metal stringcourse and the gentle shift of the openings from one floor to the next, for a volume that settles naturally into this part of Brescia.
The residence offers the city 252 beds, distributed across 122 single and 65 double rooms, each with its own bathroom and kitchen. The communal spaces include study rooms, meeting rooms, a lounge area, a playroom, a laundry, bicycle storage and a garage, supporting a modern university living experience. 30% of the beds are reserved for students from low-income families, at capped rates under the measures provided by the PNRR (Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan).
Camplus Brescia Lamarmora is the first completed building of Brescia Urban Living, the urban regeneration project led by a business group headed by Pohl Immobilien, set to transform the former Magazzini Generali area into a new contemporary district, with a business hotel and further residences in the coming months. The operation, worth around 20 million euros, is promoted by the iGeneration fund — managed by Investire SGR (Banca Finnat Group) — with the participation of CDP Real Asset SGR, the European Investment Fund and some of Italy’s leading banking foundations and pension funds. The residence is managed by Camplus.
The opening was attended by Michela Tiboni, Councillor for Urban Planning of the City of Brescia, and Elena Marta, President of EDUCatt, together with the leadership of the partner institutions: Antonino Turicchi (CDP Real Asset SGR), Paolo Boleso (Investire SGR), Hans Martin Pohl (Pohl Immobilien) and Maurizio Carvelli (Camplus).
