Scuola Frank
Transformation of a public space of Corso Brescia
Transformation of a public space of Corso Brescia
The project area is located in the Aurora district of Turin. Although now mostly residential, the area was first built within the industrial expansion of the city in the last century. The dominant element of the area is surely cars, both moving and parked. Significantly few amounts of greenery and public places are present. This fragmented gray corridor embodies all the neglected surfaces. The dominant function of the main street is just to move from point A to point B, topping in the area unless you want to park your car for free.
The aim of this project is to reverse the existing proportion between areas dedicated for cars and other areas and to reinforce the latter, which already exist in the design area, but in a scattered way, without possibility to develop.
The proposal is not a ‘radical’ architectural intervention as a project, but a ‘radical’ change in the thinking of how this area works with simple and flexible architectural interventions.
It is not the finite version of the urban space, but rather a flexible area which would be able to develop freely in a way impossible to predict.
