The urban palace with a patio and some spatially interesting rural typologies were the references for the project development. The intervention involves two PEEP (Piano di Edilizia Economica e Popolare / Council Housing Plan) areas and four buildings. The citizens’ lack of interest in maintaining the public areas for which the Municipal Council is directly responsible, prompted us to design high impact architectural elements with a view to creating spaces with a “monumental” urban scale. The common parts of the buildings: stairs, accesses to garages, passageways etc. were conceived as transitional elements between public and privates areas, opening onto common zones in an effort to construct new and powerful communal places. Given the nature of council housing, the materials used were reduced to a minimum making for the more efficient control of the complicated economic and constructional conditioning factors.