THE BIONE GREEN-BLUE RAY…………………page LAND Italia, 2021

THE BIONE’S GREEN-BLUE RAY

The landscape and environmental enhancement of the Bione river

Type of project:Strategic Masterplan

Client: Municipality of Lecco (IT)

Year: 2021

Team: LAND Italia Srl. Andreas Kipar, Matteo Pedaso, Martina Eba, Karoline Fischer, Ilaria Giubellino

I collaborated as project leader. The project is about reinterpreting the rivers of Lecco as green rays, ecological corridors that cross the urban fabric connecting the existing green areas, also through a network of itineraries that tell the story and vocations of the territory crossed-by. The river is no longer seen as a mere linear element, but is represented by open and built spaces, areas of cultural value and public spaces with transformational potential.

The river becomes a “design laboratory”, as an opportunity to recover its historical meaning and an opportunity to start processes of urban regeneration, reconquest of public space and approach to nature and contact with water.

The new river section

Today: a river suffocated and hidden

Tomorrow: a green-blue continuous system

The fve guide lines are:

1. The revitalization of the historic centers crossed by the river;

2. The creation of a sports itinerary that connects the lakefront with the mountain context;

3. The renaturalization of the banks of the Bione towards the creation of a linear park;

4. The creation of greater pedestrian and cycle permeability.

The new landscape section