Enabling Exchange

Landscape as Infrastructure

Fuimicino - Rome, IT

The development of a new Port in Fiumicino threats to drastically transform its coastline and urban fabric; changing the relationship of the place to the sea. The area has awakened economical interest, which points towards the low-quality development of the site. Such typical condition would bring socio-cultural degradation and dissolution of spatial definition, to an already disconnected landscape. This proposal aims to alleviate actual conditions by stimulating interchanges within social, ecological and built environment; existing context, the planned Port, and any future development. The proposal of a fixed but flexible infrastructure, provides a framework to accommodate a landscape of simultaneous transitions and exchanges at different rhythms and densities; where the ecological system has a predominant structural role. An ecological corridor functions as spine of an integrated water infrastructure able to mitigate flood events.

GSD Studio | Fall 2010 Professor: Paola Cannavo Tools: Adobe CS, AutoCAD SketchUp, Rhinoceros