Re-think the ex-ILVA landscape. Bagnoli’s public park, Naples 2021

Iris Dupper,Tilman Latz

doi:10.36253/rv-11428

Abstract

    Since public space is usually associated with flexible open structures, this article looks into the transformation of the closed ex-ILVA grounds, as public green sphere, to underline emotional components in leftovers and urban policies, that add insights to the contemporary debate about environmental and social achievements of public spaces.The re-thinking of contaminated post-industrial landscapes as participatory places is not only a change in process, quality and meaning, but also a microclimatic amelioration by reducing urban heat intensification, proving to have increasing effects on human health and well-being. Emotional compontents about community identity, saftey and history are examined.How should a public urban park be designed by low initial and maintenance costs, supporting daily frequencies of citizens and health in mind and body, is the research question. More specific, how can contaminated sites be transfered into a healthy, sustainable and socially controlled public park, which idealy generates income, added value and increases life quality, respecting life expertancy, mortality rates and social well-being.   

Highlights

The planning transformation of industrial facilities The research planning process searches for intrinsic into new urban public space is preceded by their de- potentials benefiting society by means of innovacommissioning
Industrial landscapes are per se subject Following the assumption that there is a transacto constant change
Competitiveness requires the tional relationship between people and place and will to change. If this will is lacking, decline is usual- that the experience of environment is influencing, ly pre-programmed, which often comes along with what we want to do in it and how it serves our needs the loss of intangible, ethical and aesthetical values. of the moment in context of memories and past. This can be shown by the example of the former Ilva experiences we focus on research topics, like ‘social iron and steel works in Bagnoli with successive pro- control in public park’, ‘health’, ‘affordability’, ‘suscessual phases of decline: shock, destruction, foreign tainability’ and ‘uncontaminated ground achievable domination, failure, and the attempt at reori- by vegetation’(Little, 2000; Ward Thompson, 2017)

Summary

Introduction

The planning transformation of industrial facilities The research planning process searches for intrinsic into new urban public space is preceded by their de- potentials benefiting society by means of innovacommissioning. The recycling of structural ele- dustrial routes creates participative spaces for ments, as well as the amelioration of soils quality by multifunctional diversity applying e.g., circular re-nature strategies, secures cultural heritage, trans- economy ideas, the recycling and re-use of buildforms it experienceable for citizens into a sustainable ing elements, set in a new context of meaning park of the 21st century.

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