1. SUPPORT

Discovering the main landscape values

We chose three approaches to deepen the analysis which are: Botanical value, water shapes and mountain experience in order to guide our future proposal highlighting those three landscape values of Lugano city.

Within 3.17 kilometers and 18 panels offered by the Olive’s trail we found a description of the cultural and botanical history of the olive tree in Gandria where the value of the BOTANICAL AND CULTURAL HERITAGE IN THE PLACE is shown.

In addition, the trail offers a physical connection between Castagnola and Gandria with a very important tourist focus and a pedestrian connection to Mont Bré thanks to the existing trekking paths.

This trail therefore is a summary of History, Botany and Olive growing where we identified four points of interest that allow us to connect the landscape values identified in the previous analyzes at different scales of the place.

Strategies

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Values

Urban Design Concept

Itineraries As The Narrative Of The Place

Identity approach

Our starting point is to develop a strategy that allows us to connect and experience those values of the landscape of which we have already spoken and that strategy starts from the word ITINERARY.

An itinerary is a way of traveling around a place in which special attention is paid to experiences related to the essence or the spirit of the place. We can call it too the GENIUS LOCU or the essence of the Site.

Through these ITINERARIES we want to materialize those values of the place in a landscape project that allows us to live experiences through them. Walking its paths, its atmospheres, enjoying the sensitivity of its minute details and the subtlety in which these values are related.

Our project is understood as a system of succession of experiences, spaces and simple structures where each of these will find its essence and identity and all of them will be under a common idea, a NARRATIVE, a concept that develops and gives them unity.

The narrative is our mental map that clarifies the set of interventions that are going to take place through history, nature, water. In short, the values of the place that helped us find that common essence which should then be translated into an architectural definition.

Design Premises Itineraries As The Narrative Of The Place

Existing features

We developed our design strategy in such a way that it can be connected with the existing characteristics and infrastructure of the place. We took four existing trails for our itineraries, three on land and one in water.

Among those trails, we identified three points: Olive’s trail entrance, Gandria Waterfront and Brè Mountain top. We consider those places as key points because of its location and its potential for being developed and improve the attraction to these routes, functioning as landmarks.

The improvement of those points are planed by the implementation of infrastructure that has the aim to highlight the particular values of the place where are located and allow the people to experience it. Those infrastructures are landmarks, elements to see and to be seen from other itineraries, creating a connected narrative among the landscape.