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The accessible treholds of the San Rocco Valley. On the top, right: axonometric scheme of the borders and infrastructural concept of the Frullone design. Down: view from the top of the project towards the valley and the Vesuvius.
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Up: San Rocco as social edge. At the center: map of the denied spaces and opening strategy towards five design borders between city and nature.
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Frullone: how the ideas of limit and border of the ecologist Stephen Jay Gould can be used as a design concept.
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Frullone, case study overview. Up: plan and prospect. Down: view from the border to the vertical garden of the Veterinary Department.
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Vertical Garden as an idea of expansion of the Veterinary department. By the left: program, plans, technological axonometry, thermal concept. Down: section, detail.
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Border + observatory, the access to the valley. From the top: program, view of the birdwatching in the waiting room of the elevator, plans, section.
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Quarry Art Lab, the use of the monumental quarries as a laboratory for performative arts. From the top: concepts, plan. In the dark area: technological detal of the light ballon and view of the design.
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MG+N:SR Metropolitan green cross network: San Rocco. The accessible treholds of the San Rocco Valley. Panel.
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MG+N:SR Metropolitan Green Cross Network.
Simone Castaldi. Naples, Italy
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Name of work in English
MG+N:SR Metropolitan Green Cross Network.
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Name of work in original language
A project for Accessible Thresholds of the San Rocco Valley
Prize year
Young Talent 2023
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Work Location
Naples, Italy
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Author/s
Simone Castaldi
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School
Architecture Department - University of Naples Federico II.
Naples, Italy
Young Talent 2023 YT Nominees
MG+N:SR Metropolitan Green Cross Network.
A project for Accessible Thresholds of the San Rocco Valley
Program
Mixed use - Infrastructure & Urban
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Labels
Aggregation · Elevators & Scalators · Gardens & Parks · Heritage · Regeneration
Contemporary metropolis encourage sedentary lifestyles that leads to childhood obesity and cardiovascular disease. Meanwhile, residual green spaces are inaccessible to the public, and it would only take a few targeted interventions to build a broad network of care. What role for the project?
The strategy starts with the design of a soft mobility network that connects city, forest, near and far peri-urban. In this new mesh, five critical nodes have been identified in between the valley and the city. Through five projects of accessibility it’s possible to return a total of one hundred hectares of green space to public enjoyment.\r\nStephen Jay Gould distinguishes in natural ecologies two types of boundaries: the limit, where things end; the border, where different groups interact and organisms become more interactive. The project therefore aims to force these morphological boundaries into interactive, dynamic, synchronic borders that emphasize the ambiguity between city and nature.\r\nThe in-depth border is Frullone. Here, the project connects the Veterinary Department and the bottom of San Rocco valley passing through agricultural areas and the monumental quarry system. The expansion of university spaces takes the form of a vertical garden self-managed by students. On the border, urban gardens are interspersed with sports facilities and the built border houses facilities, bicycle parking and an observatory, cantilevered over the Vallone, where you can do birdwatching while waiting for the elevator to the bottom. Halfway down, it is possible to access the complex of the Monumental Quarries, recovered to house Performing Arts Workshops. The recovery of the historical matter of the Quarries is done with light and reversible elements, such as curtains and movable partitions, while lighting is provided by nylon balloons blown and lit from the inside, in order to recreate the natural illumination of the quarries, in which the horizontal sunlight shatters on the grooves of the chisels of the 18th century extractors.