Nuevo barrio y Parque urbano
Emplacement
Piacenza, Italy
Partners in charge
Emiliano Armani / Alexis Cogul
Associates
Armani Associati
Project Type
Master Plan
Program
Residences + Public Services + Urban Park
Plot surface
380.000 square meters
Build Surface
80.000 square meters
Project date
June 2009
Current Status
Goverment process
Client
Sogecos SPA
One envisions the realization of a residential surface of 30.000 m2. A surface of services of 5.000 m2 and that of an urban park of 17 Ha. This program demonstrates the consequences of urban politics, resulting in the reduction of urbanistic indexes to the extent of reaching problematic levels: who guarantees the use and the quality of urban spaces of this size and magnitude in the absence of opportune levels of urban density?
The project proposed to create a large scale urban park utilizing two fundamental strategies: “re-orienting” the perimetral space of this portion of the city and construct tow “active borders” to vitalize the park space.
In the first definition, orienting ourselves towards the exterior of the parcel, we intend to anchor the enormous expanse to a system of true macro-urban scale: the unfrastructural round that catches the periferal vehicular circulation of the city, the Tangenziale, makes a new “patchwork” territory appear which no longer belong to the countryside but are not quite urban/urbanized. These spaces, homogenous among themselves, configure a new system in which the “green” is continuously mixed with what is “constructed”. We believe that this condition represents an enormous opportunity to allow a new urban landscape to appear— one that is capable of giving symbolic sense as well as use to the complete Southern sector of the city of Piacenza.
In the second strategy, orienting ourselves towards the interior of the parcel, we propose/intend to achieve a common objective with the Administration and the private developer, represented by “leaving the park free of structures”, by therefore, not allowing the park to enter into the collection of “abandoned public spaces”. Two constructed fronts, with two distinct but complimentary programs, are placed longitudinally to the park and define it’s principal borders: housing to the North; services to the South. The flow of people generated between these two limits, guarantee that the park represent a new and constant “center” to the new neighborhood.
