(AGENPARL) – Rome, 23 May 2024
(AGENPARL) – Thu 23 May 2024 FERRARA, INAUGURATED THE NEW PIAZZA CORTEVECCHIA, PARTICIPATED PROJECT AND
EXAMPLE OF GREEN RECOVERY: THE ASPHALT HAS GIVEN PLACE TO AREAS
GREEN AND A NEW REDEVELOPED AREA IN THE CITY CENTER
Ferrara, 23 May – The new Cortevecchia square was inaugurated today,
vital space of the center born from a shared desire between the Municipality and
community. The participated project, in fact, had seen in June 2022 the
involving citizens in choosing the winner (designed
by the architect Mario Assisi), among nine project proposals. The target
at the center of the redevelopment: transforming Piazza Cortevecchia from
expanse of green asphalt, with greater attention to
environmental sustainability and the reduction of waterproofing of
surfaces.
At the inauguration, carried out at the conclusion of the redesign work
and redevelopment according to environmentally friendly criteria, are
attended by the Mayor of Ferrara, the municipal Councilor for the Environment, i
designers of the INOUT architectural firm, AR.ES agronomic firm. And
the municipal manager of the Infrastructure and Mobility Planning Service
Olga Mantovani.
“The redevelopment of the square in the center, started in August 2023 and
concluded in March 2024, for a total cost of approximately 1.1 million
euro, is characterized by seven large raised “atolls”,
where 16 plane trees have been planted, which benefit from a system
underground network, designed to convey and retain water
rainwater and create a water reserve, thus helping to maintain the
hydrated plants” explains municipal manager Olga Mantovani.
A porphyry flooring was created among the green ‘islands’ in
full respect for accessibility, benches will soon be set up with
wooden seats that develop following the circular line of the
“atolls” and there will be an enhancement of wifi coverage throughout the area.
The square was also completed with a range of services that
includes self-cleaning toilets, installation of an ecological island
screen (waste separation collection) and rest points for disabled people,
motorcycles and loading-unloading. “The rationale of the project – adds Mantovani – is
was in fact to focus on environmental sustainability and
on the accessibility of public spaces”.
For the municipal administration, the one in Cortevecchia is only the first of
a series of green spaces that could develop in the historic center,
with a view to a ‘green’ transformation for Ferrara, which will give the
possibility for the square to be frequented even in the summer months, thank you
to the planting of 16 tall plane trees, capable of guaranteeing, with
their growth, pleasant shading and to reduce the phenomenon
of the heat island within the square.
An innovative technology called Permavoid was also used
which serves to convey rainwater from the downspouts of the buildings
surrounding the plants, through specially created containers underneath
the square.
Precisely on the management of rainwater in Piazza Cortevecchia, the architect
Mario Assisi, designer of the works, specifies that: “Compared to a
traditional project the one created for the Ferrara square is being worked on
three fronts. As with any paved space, some of the water comes through
disposed of in the sewers, increasingly in difficulty, especially during
extraordinary meteoric events. For this reason, the square structure
Cortevecchia also uses rainwater through a system
innovative: the roofs of the adjacent buildings that stand on the square are
connected to an underground water bearing, which serves as a plant
irrigation through a capillarity system for trees. In the end,
through the ‘draining joints’: a non-immediate drainage system,
from slow disposal, which works by dripping, like disposal in
sewerage. From an environmental point of view this is important because it allows
to feed the groundwater, i.e. the one that is increasingly put into
crisis precisely from traditional systems, which opt for disposal
swift of the waters.” The change, for architect Mario Assisi, is therefore of
habit: “Water is a good that should not be thrown away quickly. For the
ecological well-being we should increasingly get used to retaining water,
keep it on site, to use it both for trees and for sending it
in the aquifer, slowly. This is the criterion that moves the square
Cortevecchia”, he comments in conclusion.
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At this link materials on the winning project (project number 8,
materials at the bottom of the page)
https://www.comune.fe.it/b/25610/scegli-la-nuova-piazza-cortevecchia
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Ferrara is reborn
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