Green Infrastructures
2017 Tramway Line 3.1 Landscape Design Largo Oriana Fallaci, underpass avenues Milton and Strozzi
Final and executive landscape design project of Largo Oriana Fallaci, underpass avenues Milton and Strozzi
WHERE
Municipality of Florence – Province of Florence- Tuscany Region – Italy
WHEN
2011-2017
WHO
Clients / TRAFITER S.C. a R.L. – Società Consortile a r.l. Carpi (MO)
Project Manager/ Ing. Michele Priore (Manager Office Tramway, High-Speed Trains and Motorways Municipality of Florence) and service staff
Contractors/ Trafiter S.C. a R.L., Carpi (MO)
Designers/ Prof. Arch. Lorenzo Vallerini, in collaboration with Arch. Lorenzo Nofroni and Arch. Elisa Lucattini
WHAT
The landscape design concerned, on the one hand, the almost complete maintenance of the existing tree system with further integrations in some parts of the system, on the other hand, the design of the large area made free by the construction of underpasses with shrubbery hedges, lawn spaces and paved spaces equipped with seats, combined in a whole design of open spaces that includes the Strozzi-Fallaci stop and the tram itself, to provide the context of a new large space for public use of about 4,000 square meters in continuity with the rows of avenues and the gardens of the ancient Fortress.
The strips of hedges are crossed perpendicularly and radially by three paths that lead to the pedestrian crossings of the Tramway and connect to the pedestrian counter-avenue of the ancient Fortress.
Along these paths, the stone slab pavement widens and breaks towards the lawn to form paved parking spaces that contain some concrete seats. The pedestrian cycle paths are integrated into the system of open spaces, parking and tram lines.
In the parking lot along the Mugnone creek we have new trees, stone pavements, flowerbeds with shrubs and new parking spaces.
The new green arrangement, with 36 new trees and more than 150 ml of hedges, has allowed to renew both the phytosanitary aspects and those of stability of the currently present trees, as well as to integrate the existing tree system with new plants healthier and more long-lived as the Platanus platanor “Vallis Clausa”, the first “canker stain of plane” tree resistant to a disease caused by the fungus Ceratocystis fimbriata f.sp. platani, the main cause of death of this tree.
PUBBLICATIONS/LINK
2023 | Vallerini L., 2023 (in collaboration with Borghetti P.). The Tramway in Florence (italian text), in Conti M., Latrofa R., Daole F, Ottaviani G., Cappelletti N.B. (editor) “Pisa 2050 Greenblue connection for the city future” (italian text) , Paysage Ed., Milano: pp. 70-77 (ISBN 978-88-946581-9-4).
2022 | Vallerini L., 2022. The design of open spaces and landscapes (italian text), in Borghetti P., Vallerini L. “Green Infrastructures Florence Tramway New Landscape” (italian text) Journal “Topscape”, n°47/2022, Paysage Ed., Milano: pp. 160-163 (ISSN 1125-0259).
2022 | Vallerini L., 2022. Transport infrastructure in urban areas (italian text), in Borghetti P., Vallerini L. “Green Infrastructures Florence Tramway New Landscape” (italian text) Journal “Topscape”, n°47/2022, Paysage Ed., Milano: pp. 156 (ISSN 1125-0259).
