Category: Urban Planning and Landscape

The project aims to redevelop the southern area of ​​the Centocelle Archaeological Park, creating an access point from the Tuscolano-Don Bosco district of Rome. A portion of the Urban Park, covering approximately 48 hectares, is being designed, developing several elements to create a new access point from the southern side along Via Papiria, and integrating permeability and accessibility from the densely populated neighboring neighborhoods.

We worked at the foot of the Vatican Museums, on the northern side of the Vatican walls between Via Leone IV and Viale Vaticano. The goal was to create a space for games and sports for the many children who participate in the now well-known "Estate Ragazzi" (Kids' Summer Camp) every summer.

The dimension of time guides the project and its relationship with the urban and natural landscape, suggesting a way to interpret the new spaces in continuity with the monumental tradition and urban topography. The strategy for enhancing industrial archaeology properties involves targeted interventions on existing buildings: additions, small extensions, and restorations, to improve them, connect them, and restore their function.

The Purpose of this project is to create an urban system according to the circular economy approach, through the implementation of the existing services with new activities, that can be taken as sustainable model of city for the future. The area (about 95ha) was subject to mining activities; we work with the treatment and recycling of demolition aggregates, we experiment with transformations of secondary raw materials, in continuity with the life cycle of the matter. We imagine a new environmental system with production of energy from recycling (wood chips, biogas, biomass); planting of woodland areas; research center on recovery materials technologies; productions and vineyards on land recovered from quarries; cattle and pig farming; eco-sustainable self-sustaining homes.

The project, that results winner of the International competition, concerns the development of the new urban waterfront in the port of La Spezia, commercial pole of the industrial area of Milan and Turin and point of entry of Florence, Pisa, Genoa and Siena.

The principal purpose of the project is to create a new connection between the city and the port with a system of public spaces, to encourage an urban, economic, social and environmental development of the city.