N. 39 1/2 Borgo Vico
An abandoned railway, and a strategy to re-activate a neighborhood
📍Como, Italy
The challenge
Materialize services through spaces, creating an intervention for the recovery of abandoned urban spaces
The Solution
A space for community integration, recovering an abandoned railway and creating a strategy for economic reactivation through support among local businesses in Como, Italy.
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Details
Based in a residents-centered research, it aims to tackle needs and desires that improve their life quality. It's coped with an activation strategy, to bring attention and investment to the neighborhood, leveraging on the existing systems on-site.
The proposal
When thinking in a way to intervene the neighborhood, we though about, which are the existing systems? How may we connect them, build on top of them and boost them?
We realized Borgo Vico’s economy has been harmed due to the pandemic and businesses need a way to re-activate. While at the lakeside there are very crowded places like the yatch and the aero club, some places in old Borgo Vico street remain unknown or anonymus. This is why we propose to create a Borgo Vico colaboration network, where local businesses can support each other in the re-activation.
¿How might we strengthen and systematize the existing business collaboration initiative?
