bagheria (PA), Italia

PIAZZA GARIBALDI

Bagheria, Palermo

Progetto di Luca Bullaro, architetto phD. Collaboratori: domenica mistretta, paolo rizzolo (illuminotecnica), santo mineo (strutture), simone tulumello, giulia camerata (paesaggio), leonardo lo coco (sostenibilità ambientale).

La Piazza Garibaldi es un espacio de forma circular que se asoma al ingreso de la Villa Palagonia, en el centro antiguo de Bagheria, en Sicilia. La primera operación para la reconfiguracion espacial fue la eliminación del aparcamiento – y del asfalto – y la sustitución con una fuente circular de gran tamaño que se asoma hacia al jardín publico. A partir de la fuente se genera en el piso un sistema metafórico de olas, unas “gotas urbanas” que desde el centro se difunden hacia la Villa Palagonia y que son metáforas de “urbanidad”, de espacios pensados para el hombre, públicos y peatonales, que esperamos se propaguen hacia toda la ciudad.

El espejo de agua es un elemento simbólico y al mismo tiempo un espacio para la socialización: el borde es un banco circular de 45 centímetros de altura y 60 de ancho que permite la estancia alrededor del agua y la posibilidad para los niños de acercarse a los chorros y escuchar el sonido de la fuente. (Texto y fotos de Luca Bullaro, Arq. ph.D.)

Piazza Garibaldi is in the Bagheria town centre, a few metres from the entrances to Villa Palagonia, Villa Trabia and Villa Valguarnera.

The project includes the streets surrounding the gardens, the public car-park system and the pavements, considerably widened to encourage people to walk around the town centre. The layout of the gardens is based on a study of pedestrian flows and the desire to create a network of routes winding around the existing tall trees.

Some larger spaces at the busiest junctions have been turned into stopping places and feature ample seating and a pool of water. The zones adjacent to car parks are paved with grey Billiemi stone; the paving inside the gardens is grey river pebbles, typical of local building tradition. These are interspersed with 20cm-wide bands of stone that respond to the design of the adjacent pavements.

The idea was to reinterpret the traditional paving system with local materials and colours but introduce new patterns and divisions. The retaining walls around the green spaces are developed to form large seats in reinforced concrete, clad with 5cm-thick slabs of travertine, beneath which are the lights. This creates illumination flush with the ground, with the devices hidden from view beneath the projecting benches. (Text and photos by Luca Bullaro, architect ph.D.)

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