The project belongs to a vaster process of urban renewal in Koper, Slovenia’s leading port city and an important industrial centre. The city is connected to the coast by two dams. The decommissioning of the salt flats that once occupied the area between them created a continuous link with inland areas. The gradual transformation of this area in recent decades has given it a significant potential for widespread urban renewal. The new park is situated in a liminal space that establishes a twofold boundary: between two natural components – the sea of the Gulf of Trieste and the former salt flats – and between two parts of the city – the ancient historical nucleus of Koper and the new peripheries of Semedela, Olmo and Markovec. Prior to the reclamation works, the city centre was linked to its surroundings only by the Semedela waterfront, the only strong and decisive section in the more organic path winding along the coast and connecting the cities of Koper and Izola. The design of the park was grafted onto this hard line. It becomes its direct spatial extension, aligned with plans to improve the quality of seawater and transform the waterfront into an urban beachfront. The area plays a strategic role in pursuing a dual objective. First, transforming a space of separation into an element of cohesion and continuity between parts of fragmented cities. Secondly, converting an abandoned void into a new urban attractor capable of hosting new functions and activities. The park is surrounded by a regular perimeter and the project aims to become a prototype, an elementary cell that can be replicated across the rest of this vast site Space is dynamically animated by simultaneously monolithic and sinuous elements that mimic corrugations and swellings of a limey terrain. The measured positioning of these elements creates outdoor rooms that host different activities and programmes in a simultaneously fluid and variously characterised space. Their flexible and polymorph design generates varied occasions for creating urban furnishings and, at the same time, to configure more or less introverted environments. The strategic arrangement of autochthonous Mediterranean plantings respects local forecasts for growth by completing existing rows of trees along the edges of the park to provide shade for individual functional areas and ensure acoustic and visual protection. A subtle yet profound respect for the soul of the pre-existing site and environmental context clearly emerges from the design of the new landscape: the memory of the old salt flats is reevoked by the corrugated treatment of concrete surfaces, whose low points also serve to capture rainwater. Water becomes a recurring material and theme in different design solutions. A range of differentiated devices encourages contact with nature through play and the active use of space. The desire to stimulate a free interpretation of use, crossing and movement is also emphasised by the lack of any preconstituted and clearly marked paths. Brick paving is laid out freely and strictly limited to the area of access and zones of planned intense use.
Il progetto del Koper Central Park, affidato allo studio sloveno Enota, si inscrive in un più ampio processo di rinnovamento urbano di Capodistria (Koper in sloveno), principale riferimento portuale del paese e importante centro industriale. La città, posta un tempo su un’isola costiera dalla forma circolare, è infatti congiunta alla costa mediante due dighe. Tra di esse, si stendevano le vecchie saline che, bonificate, ne hanno definitivamente saldato la continuità con l’entroterra circostante. Nel corso degli ultimi decenni, l'intera area è stata gradualmente trasformata, acquisendo un significativo potenziale di rinnovamento urbano diffuso. Il nuovo parco si inserisce in uno spazio liminare che costituisce un duplice confine: tra due componenti naturali – il mare del golfo di Trieste e la zona delle ex saline, ancora in parte riserva naturale Škocjanski zatok - e tra due parti di città – l’antico nucleo storico di Koper e la nuova periferia di Samedela, Olmo e Markovec. Prima della bonifica dell’area, il centro cittadino era infatti connesso al contesto dal solo lungomare Semedela, l’unico tratto forte e deciso di un più organico percorso che si snoda lungo la costa e collega le città di Capodistria e Isola: una successione non ordinata di ambiti urbani diversificati, che conduce dal porto alle ex saline passando per la città vecchia, fino alle nuove estensioni urbane disseminate sui pendii della collina Markov e alle aree agricole ancora attivamente coltivate. Il progetto del parco si innesta su questa linea dura e ne diviene al contempo sua diretta estensione spaziale, in linea con le previsioni di miglioramento della qualità delle acque marine e trasformazione del waterfront in spiaggia cittadina. L’area riveste pertanto un ruolo strategico al perseguimento di una duplicità di obiettivi. In primo luogo, quello di trasformare uno spazio di cesura in componente coesiva e di continuità tra brani di città fisicamente e socialmente frammentati. In secondo luogo, quello di convertire un vuoto abbandonato in un nuovo attrattore urbano, in cui ospitare nuove funzioni ed attività per comunità locali e flussi turistici, a servizio di un nucleo urbano particolarmente denso e compatto, che non lascia spazio a grandi vuoti e spazi verdi.
Parco urbano a Capodistria. Un vuoto abbandonato come nuovo catalizzatore urbano / Magliacani, Flavia. - In: L'INDUSTRIA DELLE COSTRUZIONI. - ISSN 0579-4900. - Anno LIV maggio-giugno 2021:479(2021), pp. 88-97.
Parco urbano a Capodistria. Un vuoto abbandonato come nuovo catalizzatore urbano
FLAVIA MAGLIACANIPrimo
Writing – Original Draft Preparation
2021
Abstract
The project belongs to a vaster process of urban renewal in Koper, Slovenia’s leading port city and an important industrial centre. The city is connected to the coast by two dams. The decommissioning of the salt flats that once occupied the area between them created a continuous link with inland areas. The gradual transformation of this area in recent decades has given it a significant potential for widespread urban renewal. The new park is situated in a liminal space that establishes a twofold boundary: between two natural components – the sea of the Gulf of Trieste and the former salt flats – and between two parts of the city – the ancient historical nucleus of Koper and the new peripheries of Semedela, Olmo and Markovec. Prior to the reclamation works, the city centre was linked to its surroundings only by the Semedela waterfront, the only strong and decisive section in the more organic path winding along the coast and connecting the cities of Koper and Izola. The design of the park was grafted onto this hard line. It becomes its direct spatial extension, aligned with plans to improve the quality of seawater and transform the waterfront into an urban beachfront. The area plays a strategic role in pursuing a dual objective. First, transforming a space of separation into an element of cohesion and continuity between parts of fragmented cities. Secondly, converting an abandoned void into a new urban attractor capable of hosting new functions and activities. The park is surrounded by a regular perimeter and the project aims to become a prototype, an elementary cell that can be replicated across the rest of this vast site Space is dynamically animated by simultaneously monolithic and sinuous elements that mimic corrugations and swellings of a limey terrain. The measured positioning of these elements creates outdoor rooms that host different activities and programmes in a simultaneously fluid and variously characterised space. Their flexible and polymorph design generates varied occasions for creating urban furnishings and, at the same time, to configure more or less introverted environments. The strategic arrangement of autochthonous Mediterranean plantings respects local forecasts for growth by completing existing rows of trees along the edges of the park to provide shade for individual functional areas and ensure acoustic and visual protection. A subtle yet profound respect for the soul of the pre-existing site and environmental context clearly emerges from the design of the new landscape: the memory of the old salt flats is reevoked by the corrugated treatment of concrete surfaces, whose low points also serve to capture rainwater. Water becomes a recurring material and theme in different design solutions. A range of differentiated devices encourages contact with nature through play and the active use of space. The desire to stimulate a free interpretation of use, crossing and movement is also emphasised by the lack of any preconstituted and clearly marked paths. Brick paving is laid out freely and strictly limited to the area of access and zones of planned intense use.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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