Riverfront Sangone Between Turin and Nichelino

Riverfront Sangone
Between Turin and Nichelino
Italy (2011)

[Thesis project by Luigi Cristian Sarais and Tiziano Fracas]

It is a master plan for a landscape planning, which is part of a larger metropolitan context. I did not considered the municipalities of the cities of Turin and Nichelino, but the city is seen as a single body that should reinforce its character of continuity.
The goal is to design a new urban landscape, the river is now the center of the project. This part of the city is the new urban center, and it has a significant environmental importance. First of all, it is important to give value to the environmental project, after, the new urban planning takes the form of a river park; which who the city "talks". The new riverfront has a predominant residential configuration marked by new centers for the commercial areas, tertiary, cultural and recreational activities. Given the vastness of the project it was necessary to prepare an implementation strategy divided into 10 stages that individually can be considered as a completed project, just because they have their own identity and autonomy.
These phases make up a single plan that outlines a new possible approach to landscape planning, urban design and architecture of the city.
The final design is an urban park that occupies 181 hectares of land. The project is able to return to the metropolitan area in the south of Turin new activities, events to continue the work begun with the city planning policies. The goal is to define a new concept of city, careful development and recovery its territory. The Riverside area is not seen as the back of the city but it wants to be its new face, where the communal areas of Turin and Nichelino open dialogue. The Sangone river is an element of union, which allows the cohesion of different characters. It increase the value going to join the larger project of the "Parco del Po" and "Corona Verde" of Turin.

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