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CAM Monza

Historical description

The edifice is situated in the city of Monza on the corner between viale Brianza and via Bellini. It witnesses the building period for its location opposite the park and for its architectonic characteristic of the first period of the twentieth century.
Its first function was to be a restaurant, with a garden on the ground floor, and a hotel with 34 rooms, on the other three floors.
It maintained the same destination for ages, with the possibility for the guests to be entertained in the restaurant at the sound of an orchestra.
It was a good-standard meeting place,well frequented, not only by the citizens of Monza, but also by people of Brianza, who found even the possibility to spend the night there because of the scarcity of the means of transport.
With the passing of time, the advent of progress and other kinds of amusement, the building was changed into a residence of 15 rooms with inner works of restructure. Due to the market demand some rooms became offices.
Then an enlargement of the cellar floor took place, to build a garage, and to adapt it for the disabled as requested by the Town Hall and the sanitarian authority.
Then it was changed into a medical multidiagnostic centre.

Ownership

The building was built thanks to private finance in the first period of 19th century.
In the 50’s the property passed to “immobiliare Stella” represented by Gran ufficiale Fossati Regolo, founder of the STAR, like an investment operation and took the name of Boscarini Hotel.
In the 70’s it became a residence, maintaining the same owner. In 1997 the Immobiliare Boscarini bought all the estate with the project to make it a residence of high level.
In 1998 it was bought by CAM, present owner, and it was destinated to become a medical multidiagnostic centre.

Description

The building of about 7.000 cubic metres cnsists of four floors, with the main structure made of bricks, with brick-cement floors; the roof frame is made of wood with Portuguese terracotta tiles. There is an insulating layer, with a high-density material in order to grant an adequate insulation.
The plastered façades have white and beige shades, like the Villa Reale, and they are very precious from the architectonic point of view because of the Carrara marble decorative elements, such as the abutments, and the window edges and for the ground floor perimeter fillets up to the first string-course.
The replaced door and windows maintain the old characteristics and the old light grey colour.
All the pluvials and the copper-made roof gutters have been changed. The aluminium and crystal parapets of the windows and of the balconies have been restored maintainig the same style, just as the wrought iron fence outdoor.
The garden follows the Italian Neoclassical style, with lawn and trees with precious essences: magnolias, limes, azaleas, oleanders, copper beeches, birches, wistrarias and mimosas. The internal paths are made of river stones framed by stone girders, with the introduction of paved pedestrian ways.
The building will become a Multidiagnostic Medical Centre, work and sports unit.
In the basement there is an area for microsurgery operations, a preparation and awakening room, with the possibility to project the operations, in real time to a projection room on the third floor, also be used as a conference room.
In the basement there is also a room for laser operations, another for x-ray diagnostics, another for mammography with the related areas for slabs development.
Beside these rooms, on this floor, there are a lot of ‘technical’ spaces: the heating system, air treatment, air conditioning, the switch board, an area with a bactericide group for the operating theatre, pumps and filters for the re-habilitative bath located on the ground floor, as well as the employees changing room and 18 car parking lots.
The ground floor is divided into different areas: the reception, the physiotherapy with some tools – cyclettes, tapis-roulants and couches; the massotherapy and a water bath for rehabilitation of movement.
The first floor is divided into three areas: the reception, an area with four bedrooms and a small kitchen, for day-hospital patients, and another area with nine medical specialistic studios.
On the second floor, apart from the reception, there are eleven medical studios.
On the third floor we can see the big projection room already mentioned, a solarium and eight administrative offices.
On every floor there are bathrooms for both emplyees and patients. The plan has provided bathrooms, lifts and areas for disabled people on every floor.
There has been a lot of care about the restoration of the façade materials. The plaster has been totally rebuilt through modern cleaning and material-application systems.
The marbles have been cleared through pressure-hydrocleaning operations and sandblast with free jets of siliceous sand.
The complete renovation of the building, because of its new function, required a lot of demolition, rebuilding, slab reinforcement and, above all, on the basement, some undermasonry work due to the presence of neighbouring buildings.
There has been a lot of care about the setting of air conditioning systems, water-sanitary systems, antintrusion systems, fire-alarms and above all the high-security electrical system due to the very strict regulations in force.