Südtirol | South tyrol | Alto Adige - alpitecture

workshops
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workshop 1: ArchiTecTure in Alpine AreAs - commerciAl AnD inDusTriAl AreAs
conclusion
How will commercial zones and industrial estates look in the future? How will a sustainable
mixture of economic growth and protection of nature be achieved? The first workshop
dealt with a fundamental problem of the Alpine region. High value creation and a
high level of innovation in a prospering economy meet the natural limits of growth. Only
around five percent of the land in South Tyrol is available for building on and this space
must be shared by inhabitants, tourism, agriculture, and business.
An initial analysis showed how fragile the balance of nature, infrastructure, commerce,
agriculture, and man has become. This requires new thinking and planning beyond the
borders of the communities. Industrial zones must be developed jointly in the future.
Instead of parochialism, the constrictions and a mixture of uses should be the incentive
for over arching regional planning.
Tolerable building capacity in industrial areas goes beyond the bare figures and volumes,
it does not come about until nature is recognized as a resource and included in
the planning context. Instead of allowing industrial zones to sprawl and lead to conflicts
between industry and nature, man and agriculture, in South Tyrol development opportunities
arise only in the interaction of all forces.
South Tyrol is the region of villages. Compact and open to the world, embedded in
nature and tradition.
In the future, the “Südtiroler Dorf” as a brand name should provide impulses for integrative
building and thinking in the Alps. It reinforces the structural, regional, sociocultural,
and economic identity and develops it further.
workshops
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