Osumi Island
This competition is based on a test site and is looking for ways of making places resilient. It is using design as a tool to search for best possible solutions of resilience in riverside conditions. It is also looking for ways of developing natural landscapes and defining ‘urban by nature’. Being a test site, it means that the findings of the process can be shared with many other similar context or sites that are at a flooding risk zone and lack features of being resilient. In this perspective, this exercise serves more than the city of Berat. The proposals might become an inspirational source for other sites in Albania or beyond its borders.
This competition is based on a test site and is looking for ways of making places resilient. It is using design as a tool to search for best possible solutions of resilience in riverside conditions. It is also looking for ways of developing natural landscapes and defining ‘urban by nature’. Being a test site, it means that the findings of the process can be shared with many other similar context or sites that are at a flooding risk zone and lack features of being resilient. In this perspective, this exercise serves more than the city of Berat. The proposals might become an inspirational source for other sites in Albania or beyond its borders.
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<strong>Osumi</strong> ISLAND<br />
New axe<br />
Pedestrian zone<br />
Project: mobility strategy<br />
MOBILITY STRATEGIES, ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION WORKS<br />
Starting from the mobility scheme proposed by PPV, the project further<br />
emphasizes the opportunity to regain a relationship between city and<br />
water, diverting behind the University building the stretch of driveway on<br />
the riverfront coming from the informal suburb, thus reconnecting it to<br />
the existing road system. In this way the riverfront can be designed as<br />
a wide open space, linking the pedestrian monumental avenue with the<br />
historic city central areas, with the public gardens and, through them, with<br />
the river banks and the island. This area is crossed by two underground<br />
streams that flow into the river; channels running through the garden<br />
show their presence.<br />
84<br />
A&I design + Marialaura Polignano + UFG research + ARKE’ ingegneria
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