Redevelopment of Piazzale Pablo

Projects | Landscape Architecture

Competition project “Open air rooms”

The intent is to give the area a marked identity, by defining different functional areas inside it. Its total accessibility and usability allows the inhabitants to discover small parts of the garden and to run into a pleasant environment where to walk, stop and entertain, according to the different wishes and age of users.
The church, which is the core of the area, gains in dignity and becomes the focus of the whole space.

We decided to design flower beds in order to divide space into different functional areas connected to each other by a hierarchy of routes.

The formal design recalls Italian gardens. The organic design of the garden represents a crack in the soil under the effect of strength lines and, in the same way as it would happen in a maze, it creates routes in the ground. These “cracks” create penetration axes that bring voids to life thanks to different attractions.

Architecture in this project aims at creating overlapped elements: paving, greenery, seating, elements of urban design, small pieces of architecture.

The widely re-vegetated part keeps the existing level whereas the paved surface goes gradually 60 cm down from the inner to the external part of the area. You can feel a strong sensory relationship with the vegetation and the ground by entering the garden. Users’ senses are involved and stimulated by the environmental diversity of a system that mixes together undergrowth vegetation and existing trees. The aim is to build a sequence of various spaces which will be rich in vitality during different hours of the day and throughout the changing seasonal weather conditions.