In the heart of the Montespaccato neighborhood, at Via Gaetano Mazzoni 85, the Study Hall of the Montespaccato Cultural Center occupies the regenerated spaces of the former Campari factory. The building, an example of rationalist industrial architecture, housed Campari production for about fifty years, employing many people from the neighborhood, before its closure in the mid-1980s and its purchase by the Municipality of Rome.
Within the Ex Campari Cultural Center there is a hall available to associations that request it for exhibitions, events and cultural initiatives, a study room and a 450 sqm coworking space with 22 workstations. The study room offers an environment dedicated to study and shared work, set in a broader cultural context that encourages cross-pollination among those who use the spaces to read, research, work on projects or organize public activities. The complex represents the first public cultural space opened by the Municipal Administration of Municipio Roma XIII, strengthening the neighborhood’s role in the city’s cultural map.
The Hub is closely connected to the Rome Libraries system: the new spaces indeed house the neighborhood library, pending the completion of renovation works at the nearby Cornelia Library.
The transformation of the former Campari factory into a Cultural Hub returns an identity-defining building to the neighborhood, combining industrial memory with new social uses. The Study Room of the Montespaccato Cultural Hub thus becomes a stable and recognizable public space, where people can study, read or work in a context that preserves the history of the place and promotes the active participation of the local community.