The city and its politics will be the principal area where the largest part of human life will grow. Planning correctly the urban infrastructure : the saving of energy, the respect for the environment and the correct development of the upcoming digital era, must always be on top of all priorities when, in the urban areas, 2/3 of all world population will live
The space of relations/Interrelation areas
All our projects have had the same thematic perspective : the space for relations.
The common denominator is the relation between infrastructure and landscape.
The choice of this theme comes from the necessity of building, in our cities, places for active relations to oppose social hardships, differences and disparities. The acceleration of relations between citizens raises the quality of city life in every urban area and transforms emergency in normality. From this concept descend our projects of the pedestrian place at the historical Mergellina Station (Naples) and the hybrid park on an abandoned rail road that connected historical monuments, Gramsci square (Caserta) near the Vanvitelli palace, the public equipment of Afragola (Naples) and the sea front of Chioggia (Venice).
The relation between people and places is the core of our projects of rail stations. Public transport will occupy more and more time in people’s life. They already are, but even more they will be, part of people’s life, places for relations, for shopping and, above all, for leisure. Time spent in travelling will be time dedicated to work and study. Intercontinental networks will be connected to high speed trains that, in turn, will be connected to land links. We have interpreted these relations between travel places and urban centres on different scales in the projects of the new metro line of Caserta conurbation (six railway station and eight places of interchange), of Quarto (Naples) subway station, and thanks to the participation with Rem Koolhaas in the international competition of the new high speed railway station of Afragola (Naples).
The landscape theme, that is the necessity to apply sustainable criteria in design, clearly comes from environmental problems and from strong social requests.
Answering these issues implies recognising and re-programming what of that living tissue survived, open to new choices that have to be reversible, pliable and diffused.
Another answer could be given by minimizing both the environmental and the economical impact through the control over the materials life cycle, suggesting simple elements in designing open spaces and checking the compatibility between parts of infrastructures.
These principles have been applied in the Guide lines for designing open spaces in the cities of Caserta and Cosenza, in the 13 Caserta small parks equipped for the bio-environmental control, in the NaturalisticPark at Procida Mount in Naples.