Type:
Landscape
Location:
San Donato M., Italy
Year:
2020
Client:
Comune San Donato MIlanese
Cost:
800.000 euro
Surface:
15.000 m2
Phase:
Competition
Team:
Alessandro Trivelli
Silvia Calatroni
Collaboratori
Simone Broglia
Giulia De Negri
The urban space of Piazza della Pieve is identified with a perimeter that connects the same square with via Martiri di Cefalonia, up to via Antonio Gramsci with the area called the Pratone and via Europa.
Within this perimeter, various areas have been identified in which there are several public buildings (the Municipality, the Library, the civic center), religious buildings with the parish and the buildings of the oratory, public areas equipped with greenery and sports.
The administration asks to propose guidelines that can give recognition to this urban area, activating strategies to facilitate the connection system.
Actually the connective system is based on a strong prevalence of fast mobility, leaving little space for foot traffic and road trees sacrificed for the benefit of cars and parking.
Even the network of cycle paths is discontinuous and in conflict with the system of parking cars and stops of public lines: two cycle paths run parallel in via Emilia and via Gramsci, without a connection between them that crosses the center of San Donato.
Piazza della Pieve, the pedestrian area that stands on via Martiri di Cefalonia and piazza San Donato are the only areas used as a pedestrian area not in conflict with cars; other public spaces overlooking the Municipality, the Library suffer from little identity and recognition as a livable space.
The project proposal is to create a single vehicle area in "zone 30" with a ZTL area for residents and authorized workers at the center.
The goal is not to give the space the characteristic of "shared space" but rather a hybrid "woonerf", in which the sharing of spaces is defined by limits and shapes but without differences in the height of the flooring that delimits the areas of use.
Where there is vehicular traffic in its section, pedestrian crossings placed on road junctions are made with the widening of the pavement to improve the visibility of the pedestrian.
New alternative functions to the existing ones are not added, but spaces and paths are organized in such a way that their use is safer, more legible in the urban system, consolidating the same existing architectural quality.