PIAZZA VITTORIA

CONCEPT DESIGN

The project was focused to redevelop Vittoria square, with the scope to join the Municipality building to the ancient building that make the boundaries of the square. The square has represented by the years a point where people used to meet and park during the week, instead the weekend that space was used as a space for the town market.

The concept design was to give a new identity to the redeveloped square adding at the existing car park new functions, as the space for the “promenade” and the town market.  In fact, the project tried to define a clear and flexible design considering the several functions of the square throughout the day.

HISTORICAL LANDSCAPE AND ARCHITECTURAL VALUES

Since the beginning, the design was addressed to understand the main architectural values, supporting by the historical documents and making several site visits to better understand the way the people use and live the square.

In fact, the historical documents showed that in the past, instead of the Viale Roma, used to be a canal that the design uses as a reference to work on and transform it into an architectural element, as the linear drain in white granite that divides two main areas of the square, pedestrian with the driveway space.

WHITE GRANITE AND SIDE WALK

The “Promenade” was obtained by enlarging the existing sidewalk in trachyte stone, adding a new surface in white stone all around the existing buildings that faces the square.

This operation was important to connect the square to the existing historical center paths, towards Vicolo Castello on the south, and on the north towards Umberto Primo square.

MATERIALS AND GEOMETRIES

The main idea was to relationship with the existing using geometries and materials to divide the spaces and the several functions through a clear design. 

In fact the white granite was used to enlarge the sidewalk and as inserts into the square to divide car park spaces and to delimit the space for the truck of the market.

The white granite was used also as an architectural element to create order and to create several line prospective towards the main points of the historical town as the Mesola Castle.

In the other hands, the porphyry cubes were used as principal material for the drivecar square , creating a sense of continuity with the historical paths of the historical centre, which leads towards the square.

The granite stone as well as the porphyry cubes were used by the project with the aim of not adding other materials, but using the local stones as continuity with the existing surfaces

STREET FURNITURE

All the street furniture, as the bench, trees and all the bollards were designed with the goal of respecting the original materials supporting all the functions and uses of the square to guarantee the life of the square throughout the day. 

HUMAN VALUE…