In accordance with the guidelines of the competition, the project objective is the redevelopment of the Mestre station area and surroundings. The design approach, depending on the case, consists both in the redevelopment and in the transformation with replacement of existing elements, in vision of a sustainable urban development in favor of the ecology and economic feasibility.
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A critic evaluation of the existing structures provided the coordinates for the intervention methods based on the reuse and improvement of the town, combining proposal with ongoing transformations, integrating with them, where necessary, to encourage a holistic reading and to strengthen the “dialogue” between existing and project.
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The main lines of the project going through the buildings and their exterior, gave birth to the architectural form and organization of the spaces.
The development of linear compositional axis determined the directions of pedestrian and cycle paths.
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Site 1 – railway station area
Today, Mestre train station, an essential railway junction, is undersized in services and infrastructure with respect to the flow that includes daily. It is conceived as an urban place, with the aim to offer passengers an innovative intermodal mobility as opposed to the existing system and a concentration of transport and services to encourage and integrate the numerous needs as an active exchange center, centerpiece of a new metropolitan area.
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The volume of the new station, which replaces the existing one, extends in length by 28 meters from north to south for about 20 meters deep, encompassing to the right the area occupied by the building of the police and the former post office, aligning itself with the important route of Via Dante.
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Consequently it appears as a horizontal parallelepiped, whose linearity is, however, interrupted on the front of Via Trento, in two points, with the loops, cut-outs, breaking the volume at the roads parallel to Via Piave, and who welcome tree-lined gardens. It follows a reading of the volume proportions closer to the urban fabric surrounding.
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Sito 2 – quartiere Piraghetto
The design approach in this area of the competition, took into consideration the changes that are taking place, comparing on the one hand, with the choices with the manifested necessity to increase the residential settlement, and on the other hand with the desire to maintain and enhance the historical memory of the railway operations, concentrated in the warehouse of the freight.
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The heart of the project is the park, which extends up to the limit of the railway line, and includes the entire area of the former goods yard, thus passes from the scale of garden town to that of urban park.
A freeway indeed passes next to the railway line, and it acts as a noise barrier between the railroad and the park and collects traffic from the station, today running through via Trento.
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The railroad system act as the border of the park and of the abandoned area with the route of the old tracks creating the system the use of the park.
The “green” theme is an essential assumption in order to create the connection. The usability of the space brings together two different ways of travel. A slow one that is pedestrian and cycle paths and a fast one linked to the mobility of the station and the traffic.
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In the middle of the park there are the buildings, the warehouse renovated and re-used as an exhibition hall, a low body joining it as a cultural center. Other four volumes of residences in line with them, accompany and give direction to the paths, apparently free in the green space but strongly anchored to the mainlines of the existing. The city on the one side, the warehouse of the former goods yard with the layout of the abandoned tracks, the other side.
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Sito 3 – il parco di via Piave
The area of the parquet floor of Via Piave, on the axis road that leads from the station in the city center, and lives today in improper uses, because of the social degradation of the urban context, it should be affected by the positive influences derived from the urban transformations in the station area, and also by the flow of tourists that move along the path towards the center. Indeed it is desirable, that it creates systm with the new building station and with the park expanded by Piraghetto with which it is linked by roads cross to Via Piave.
Ttherefore the project aims to tie it to the system of paths that move along these lines, without altering its identity as neighborhood garden.
The goal is actually to recover the existing and to introduce new elements leading to a urban use more involved and active, so that it becomes an important resting place for families with children, neighbors and tourists eager for a break to the shade of big trees.
Keeping the existing masts, we proceed with small interventions reformulation of paths in order to improve the relationship with both the buildings that overlook to the garden and the axis of Via Piave who assists him with a car park area.
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In the inner side the other hand, the existing winding path, which passes between the beds and the playground is reused and translated into a bike path with a floor of stabilized soil.
The route, along with a quota system generates different spaces free of sitting in the shade of the trees and establishes two areas, one closer to the buildings, green, protected where, rearrange games for children and green lawns without edge, blend with the earth seamless, one closer to the edge of the road, where the pavement in stabilized soil, draw a square for markets and small temporary exhibition stands.
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