RE-FORMING ROME Tag: #Strategic plan #Urban regeneration Team: UNIPA, Re-Cycle Italy Year: 2015 Area: 100 sqkm Type: Workshop Promoter: Municipality of Rome, MAXXI Museum Exhibition: 18-12-2015 / 17-01-2016 @ MAXXI Roma 2025 - New life cycles for the metropolis is an international workshop which called 25 research groups from universities from all the world to design the future of Rome, with the support of the international research program on urban regenration Re-Cycle Italy. The urban territory has been devided into 25 squares, one for each team. The square n. 12 designed by UNIPA group is a highly marginalized suburb outside the urban centre. It is crossed by big road infrastructures (G.R.A.), by the railway and by the river Tevere, that characterize and shape the landscape. The area concentrates important centralities, identitary neighborhoods and pieces of landscape without any relationship. The result is a fragmented identity accentuated by infrastructural boundaries. The project on this area, named “Re-Forming Rome - The Agri/Fab Metropolis”, aims to referom the physical, reational and productive space, to recompose a rur/urban archipelago and to establish a circular metabolism fueled by agriculutral resources and the related manufacturing production. The project has been developed through the Cityforming © method which acts by incremental and adaptive steps necessary to produce partial results that become the generative basis of the next step. The masterprogramming is developed through a period of 10 years in three phases: “colonization”, “consolidation” and “development”. In the colonization, the ex Caserma Donato is opened to temporary functions, hosting some first activites related to the urban / rural manufacturing district. The edible park, Edible Cucco, fuels the district and provides the raw material for local start-up of the agricultural sector. The linear square of Trullo neighborhood trasforms into a social platform that links the district to Monte Cucco and the ex Caserma. The Agri/Fab District develops also in Trullo courtayrds and provides hydroponic cultivations, community composting, photovoltaic and micro-wind energy, recovery of rainwater, phyto-purification.
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In the phase of consolidation the new functions are fixed thanks to the settlement of a new makers and farmers community in the manufacturing district in the ex Caserma, which becomes a food farming business incubator where urban agriculture meets the new digital manufacturing. Finally the development aims to obtain a Fluid Metabolism that links all the urban islands in a liquid archipelago. The area in close contact with Tevere will become a watergate, with a green promenade, camping area, lakes for organic acquaculture activites, hydroponic agriculture and phyto-purification. The floodplain of Tevere becomes a Water Arena, where flood water becomes a resource. The Bosco Grande tranforms the G.R.A. in a linear forest, with the aim to improve the quality of the air and to connect the green system of the landscape.
