02 \ Piazza Libertà Avellino, IT - 4th out of five finalist project
Piazza Libertà, Avellino - IT
Urban Redevelopment Competition, 2013
Currently Piazza Libertà in Avellino is a disordered space that does not respond to its function of a terminal connection between the urban linear system Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and the green spaces around the center of the city. Its size is around the same dimensions of the largest squares in Italy – Piazza del Popolo in Rome, Piazza Duomo in Milan and Piazza San Marco in Venice – but the architectural fronts that define it do not exhibit the characteristics – both architectural and functional – that support its scale.
In order to resolve the problems and to reexamine the most important urban space of the city of Avellino, the project’s aim was to re-dimension the space of the square and re-define the perimeter with three clear and easily identifiable structures: Agorà, Stoà, The Green Block.
The result is an organized and well systematized contemporary square.
Agorà - It is a quality carpet, homogeneous and continuous, flexible, ready to host all the activities of the square. Its northern side is defined by the facades of the three eighteenth-century buildings, while its southern front is bordered by Stoà, which make it a space extremely usable and human-sized.
Stoà - A diaphragm able to control flows in all its three crossing directions: first, as natural, sheltered continuation of the main street (East-West); second, filter between square and green area (North-South); third, vertical connection with underground parking. This element gathers -by the green side- all the equipments necessary for the square, like vertical connections, bar, kiosk, house of water, info-point, bike sharing station, so these elements are not spread all over the space generating noise and confusion.
The Green Block - Is a super dense green lung, made of a regular orthogonal grid of different species of trees, except for the space where the old fountain is replaced. It works as buffering zone between the southern urban fabric and the street.
Lighting Consultant: Metis Lighting
Stone and Tiles Consultant: Pietre Naturali
Project Area Requirements:
Team: Federico Archidiacono, Eliseo D’Alonzo, Federico Feraco, Marta Ripamonti, Jacopo Giovanni Villa --
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