Both the new laboratory and administration building for ARPA (Agenzia Regionale Prevenzione e Ambiente Dell‘ Emilia-Romagna) and the new building for the city administration are to be located at the western edge of the city of Ravenna.

The brownfield site lies in a transitory area on the threshold of a residential district. Together with a new school on a neighbouring site to the south the project establishes a new suburban focus; a new park benefiting both the new developments and the existing community.