Developed for Europan 14 in Cuneo, this project focuses on a primary strategic concept:
the reappropriation of a part of the city – occupied by military barracks – as an occasion for imagining a space where free time, work and culture revitalise an urban park.
The park is imagined as part of a vaster system of landscaping that embraces Cuneo, creating a transversal connection between existing riverside parks via cycling paths.
In this threshold space nature and city find their perfect synthesis. A once “impassable” limit becomes “passable”:
overcoming this physical limit is a symbol for overcoming all limits, whether urban or social, and of a new space of shared activities and life. Above all, public space becomes the ‘alter ego’ of the historical centre, a hinge, an urban node for the contemporary city.
The strength of this reappropriation lies precisely in the desire to move from a single isolated function to a multifunctional park. This multifunctionality makes for a living environment at all hours of the day,
open to all manner of users, creating a place of exchange capable of hosting multiple activities of citizens – commercial, cultural, artisanal – and an integral part of the process of revitalising and requalifying this area.
