Green Infrastructures
2019 Tramway Line 2 Historical Centre Variant to Project (Construction Lot 1) Piazza Unità Italiana, Piazza Stazione, Via Valfonda
Landscape executive project for the Historical Centre Variant to Project (Construction Lot 1) Piazza Unità Italiana, Piazza Stazione, Via Valfonda
WHERE
Municipality of Florence – Province of Florence- Tuscany Region – Italy
WHEN
2015-2019
WHO
Clients/ GLF Grandi Lavori Fincosit S.p.A. –Rome (2015-2017), TRAFITER S.C. a R.L. – Società Consortile a r.l. Carpi (MO) (2017-2019)
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 e Arch. Elisa Lucattini
WHAT
The project concerns landscape design, urban design and green works for four distinct areas: the terminus of the Unità tramway stop which integrates on one side with Santa Maria Novella square and on the other with Piazza Unità Italiana, the wide open space between the Basilica of Santa Maria Novella and the Main Railway Station and the Valfonda tramway stop in front of the Station and, finally, Piazza Adua and Via Valfonda up to the grafting on the Avenues including in this section also the arrangement of the Garden of Villa Vittoria (Congress Palace).
As a whole, the open spaces project has deepened the urban-landscape compatibility of the project and developed an overall design idea of the urban context, taking into account all historical, urban and landscape values.
The contents of the project are:
- New street furniture and new stone pavements connecting areas and redefining the limits of intervention with that carried out at the Main Railway Station;
- The redevelopment of the terminus area Line 2 Stop Unità, through paving in continuity with the context and a unitary design as a predominantly pedestrian use with continuity of the different spaces and functions through constant rates for easy and uninterrupted movement flows;
- New asphalt paving of Piazza Stazione after the elimination of the central green flowerbed, colored asphalt in Largo Alinari and new stone pavement for the sidewalks;
- The arrangement of the paving and furnishings of the new tramway stop in Valfonda – Station, including the homogenization of materials in the areas characterized by the new plantations of Pinus pinea;
- The arrangement of Piazza Adua in colored asphalt and Via Valfonda with the displacement of the border wall of the Villa Vittoria Park, a general reconstruction of the wall and sidewalks completes the system, while for the Garden of Villa Vittoria it has been provided, following the displacement of the wall, the recovery of the internal parking areas, replanting to compensate for the trees felled and the reconstruction of the original hedge of evergreens leaning along the border wall.
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).
