PIAZZA URSELLA

Place  Lignano Sabbiadoro (UD)

Year  2019

Client  Comune di Lignano Sabbiadoro

Gino Ursella square is the product of a vision dating back to the 1960s: the modern holiday city. It also contains a message of seaside enthusiasm typical of that time and expressed through the brightness of the colors but also through the magnificence of the buildings themselves. It was an urbanistic vision to emphasize the architecture of the city with porticos and squares where to walk and meet other vacationers.

The proposed redevelopment project for the competition aims at bringing back to life this optimism reshaping the atmosphere with the colors of the place in a contemporary way: simple, moderate and evocative for the tourists but also for the residents who are living in this place all year round. The color is thus the strategic tools of the proposal following this message of optimism and the place’s morphology but in line with nowadays’ spirit of frugality. Nowadays above all means attention to the environment, to the re-use and to stylistic sobriety.

The project proposal is based on an organization of the space into tree “rooms” and includes:

  • The creation of a flexible space in the central “room” upgrading the existing environment conditions keeping the current functions.
  • The recognition of the square as the heart and the connecting place of a larger system in the urban context.
  • The constitution of a space as an attractor of new representative and aggregative functions in the two green “heads”.
  • The creation of a place with a strong identity in line with the history of the place itself, but of easy management and maintenance.
  • The making of a dynamic space able to change its look during the day or longer periods (weekly or seasonally).
  • The replacement of the high lampposts with their cold an alienating light by shorter and more densely distributed lampposts that generate a more intimate and spread light. These lampposts will be supplied with low consumption devices based on led technology.

Flexibility is the key word of the project. The square is imagined as a space that can host different activities for the everyday users, and easily adjust to events and to other specific needs that may occur.

The central “room” of the square is a large empty space able to accommodate to the different functions that will be activated time by time in the square. A place however able to re-activate convivial collective processes where to meet, wait and stop-by. A place open to everyone: market, music, parties, events, etc.

The two heads of the square are thought as “green rooms”, space for shadow and rest characterized by a calibrated variety of trees, small bushes, and ground covering plants. In these areas many seats will be located next to the green tank, in a way to preserve the needs of the pedestrians.

The square is connected through a ramp to the paths directed to the sea.

project

TAM associati + starassociati + Tecnoprogetti + VB studio tecnico + geol. Bruno Grego

 

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Ursella square  Competition Project

 

 

 



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