Green Infrastructures
2016 Tramway Line 2 Historical Centre Variant to Project Viale Lavagnini, Piazza Libertà, Piazza San Marco
Landscape final project for the Historical Centre Variant to Project Viale Lavagnini, Piazza Libertà, Piazza San Marco
WHERE
Municipality of Florence – Province of Florence- Tuscany Region – Italy
WHEN
2015-2016
WHO
Clients / GLF Grandi Lavori Fincosit S.p.A. –Rome
Project Manager/ Ing. Michele Priore (Manager Office Tramway, High-Speed Trains and Motorways Municipality of Florence) and service staff
Designers/ Prof. Arch. Lorenzo Vallerini, in collaboration with Arch.tti Lorenzo Nofroni, Elisa Lucattini and Stefania Nannelli
WHAT
The project for the landscaping and urban furnishings concerns the realization of the Lavagnini – Libertà – San Marco section of the “Variant to Project of the Tram Track to the historic centre” that originally provided for the passage to the Cathedral-Piazza del Duomo as approved by Vote 457/211 of 15/03/2011 of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport.
Based on the Green Plan of the City of Florence, the project provides for:
- Maintaining the original design of Piazza Libertà and Piazza San Marco, thanks also to the non-invasive location of the stops ;
- Unifying pedestrian and cycle paths, open spaces and green areas;
- The maintenance of the original tree-planting on the both sides of the avenue with the replanting and the reordering of the rows, either in substitution of those that must be removed or of those that must be replaced;
- A system of pedestrian, cycle paths and crossings for a better accessibility than the current state characterized by fragmentation and discontinuity;
- The reorganization of parking spaces on the both sides of the avenue, also with tree protective systems against the cars.
The landscaping interventions in Viale Lavagnini concerned the protection of existing trees or their replacement in cases of existing faults and hedges separating from the road, in Piazza Libertà the insertion of the tram stop without altering the system and the shape of the green, in Viale Matteotti a replacement of the existing trees causes the necessary shifts of the lanes of the avenues. In Piazza San Marco there are no stops in the square, but in the final stretch of Via Cavour and in the initial stretch of Via La Pira, and the square remains only as crossing the tramway line. The two stops are integrated into existing platforms, differentiating for the pavement in sandstone slabs; the stop kits have been reduced to a minimum so as not to impact on the historic buildings in front of which the Tramway stops and only the information panels of stop and the ticket issuer are left. The cameras are mounted on a wall, the line is supported by a cable that goes from building to building and the stop cabinets have been moved in a near street to avoid a visual impact in contrast with the historic buildings.
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