The design for the Children’s City of Frattamaggiore offers the extraordinary opportunity to introduce a new landscape in the dense urban context: a wide pedestrian area on two levels with a piazza above and gardens and fountains below.
The project’s idea is focused on the negative aspects of its surroundings that lack of public space. In contrast with the rest, the project becomes a sudden “oasis” fitted in the urban sprawl. The built parts over the ground level are limited and most of the rooftops are accessible. Because of the void created at the lower level the built surface is given back to public fruition.
The project’s strategies are: give more space to pedestrians, increase green areas; introduce activities for all generations; promote sustainability both in the building process and in the management.