Type: Competition
Team: Dario Castellari, Federico Landi, Lapo Naldoni, Alberto Chiusoli, Eugenio Bettucchi, Gianmarco Daniele
Year: 2013
Crevalcore is a 13.000 inhabitants municipality between Bologna and Modena.
It has a unique historical city centre characterized by a regular grid built in 1230.
As a lot of cities belonging to small-medium Italian municipalities, Crevalcore is currently starting a slow and relentless depopulation.
Crevalcore is located within a part of land called “Aerotropolis” (“Aerotropolis, the way will live next” John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay): it is subjected by the influence of Bologna’s G.Marconi airport.
A new program can be inserted into Crevalcore’s city centre to embrace new flows of people linked with airport and its connections with land’s particularly high-quality fields of research:
nanotechnology, agricolture and fashion.
The idea is to conceive the urban structure not as a rigid grid but as an elastic multi-layered one: as a net, it is flexible and can enlarge or reduce itself depending on users and activities:
- using post-quake generated voids to connect parks and unused courtyards and to create a green network.
- converting Crevalcore’s main street into a pedestrian boulevard, endorsing the acient street’s porches.
- the Town Hall, core of the public space of the city, is re-thinked as the most deformable element of the grid.
It becomes a place between a municipal building and a “Mall”, a meeting point for University, industries and people: there are labs for researches, spaces for coworking and showrooms. It is deformable and can be programmed for events and cultural and learning programs.
Year: 2013
Crevalcore is a 13.000 inhabitants municipality between Bologna and Modena.
It has a unique historical city centre characterized by a regular grid built in 1230.
As a lot of cities belonging to small-medium Italian municipalities, Crevalcore is currently starting a slow and relentless depopulation.
Crevalcore is located within a part of land called “Aerotropolis” (“Aerotropolis, the way will live next” John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay): it is subjected by the influence of Bologna’s G.Marconi airport.
A new program can be inserted into Crevalcore’s city centre to embrace new flows of people linked with airport and its connections with land’s particularly high-quality fields of research:
nanotechnology, agricolture and fashion.
The idea is to conceive the urban structure not as a rigid grid but as an elastic multi-layered one: as a net, it is flexible and can enlarge or reduce itself depending on users and activities:
- using post-quake generated voids to connect parks and unused courtyards and to create a green network.
- converting Crevalcore’s main street into a pedestrian boulevard, endorsing the acient street’s porches.
- the Town Hall, core of the public space of the city, is re-thinked as the most deformable element of the grid.
It becomes a place between a municipal building and a “Mall”, a meeting point for University, industries and people: there are labs for researches, spaces for coworking and showrooms. It is deformable and can be programmed for events and cultural and learning programs.
