Green Infrastructures
2019 Tramway Line 3.1 Landscape Design Piazza Beslan and Viale Strozzi
Final and executive landscape design project of Piazza Beslan and Viale Strozzi. In this section, the track of the tram with the tramway stop Beslan, integrated into the public space, gives a new functionality to the square and the extension along the avenue.
WHERE
Municipality of Florence – Province of Florence- Tuscany Region – Italy
WHEN
2015-2019
WHO
Clients / Società Tram di Firenze S.p.A., Trafiter S.C. 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
While the avenues remain the historical interface between the different urban contexts, Piazza Beslan is the new “pedestrian” link, the bridgehead to the urban center along the road that from Via Dionisi, then Via Guelfa, etc. crosses the historic Centre almost in a single straight line until Piazza Beccaria, beyond the old town.
This stretch of the avenues, with Viale Strozzi that branches into the central axis of Viale Lavagnini with strong tree alignments, represents, from a landscape point of view, a “strong” image of the interventions that Giuseppe Poggi had in mind in XIX century for “Capital Florence” (1865), much stronger than other sections of the “city ring” avenues.
The track of the tram with the stop contextualized in public space gives a new functionality to the square and the extension along the avenue.
The landscape design has connected the shares of the Square to the edges integrating the platforms of the tramway stop to the square, thus allowing a unitary space, keeping the current visual cones free and reducing the interference of technological structures (poles, cabinets stop systems); the materials used for flooring and furnishings are homogeneous and the lighting system is appropriate both to the context and from a lighting point of view. Among the stop furniture were used colored concrete “ball” bollards, the info panel “slim” and the new generation ticket issuer.
In the section of Viale Strozzi the tramway line changes the forms of the avenue, especially in the initial part adjacent to Piazza Beslan with consequent elimination of the row on the side of the underpass (first row of old plane trees) and the replanting of new trees in addition to existing ones (second row) so as to form again the double alignment of the rows of historical origin made by Giuseppe Poggi.
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).
