Existing as something between landscape and architecture, the Ponte Parodi project in Genoa, Italy is set to be a prime experience-based attractor for the city and its alpine surroundings. Designed by UNStudio, the multi-functional waterfront piazza exists in three dimensions- not just placed upon and within a city setting, but digging down and building up to provide something extra to its site.
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Featuring a program centered around wellness, culture, and leisure- the project will include a cruise terminal which, acting in conjuncture with its other varied functions, will bring a new vitality and liveliness to an aging harbour. As part of the added three-dimensionality of the project, the ‘roofs’ of the programs below feature a park with sporting fields, as well as beaches and other sites for public gathering and activity.
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Built around several layers of circulation, the site’s 36,000 m² will incorporate some 76,000 m² of floor space. Designed as a series of rhombic volumes rotated against each other and layered, the Ponte Parodi will not only be a site of leisure, but will also include educational and knowledge-building functions, a bridge between the two functions being an open-air amphitheater incorporated into the above-mentioned public park.
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project info:
Architect: UNStudio
Project Year: 2009
Location: Genoa, Italy
client: altarea italia progetti s.r.l.; (competition) porto antico di genova spa
programme: public attractor with a 3-dimensional piazza and mixed use: cruise terminal, wellness experience, knowledge experience, commercial experience, public park with amphitheatre.
Engineers: ARUP, Grootint
gross floor surface: 76.000m²
volume: 160.000 m³
site: 36.000 m²
total project area: 132,200 m2
internal activities: 49553.82 m2
public urban park on roof: 18838.04 m2
parking area: 36437.08 m2
technical areas: 8356.81 m2
outdoor areas (quays, north piazza): 18929.94 m2
unstudio: ben van berkel, caroline bos, astrid piber with nuno almeida and (design development/building permit) mirko bergmann, margherita del grosso, veronica baraldi, kristin sandner, abhijit kapade, chiara marchionni, cristina ferreira, casper damkier, rainer schmidt, adrien leduc, lorenzo vianello; (schematic design) cristina bolis, paolo bassetto, alice gramigna, michaela tomaselli; (competition) cristina bolis, peter trummer, tobias wallisser, olga vazquez-ruano, ergian alberg, stephan miller, george young, jorge pereira, mónica pacheco, tanja koch, ton van den berg
advisors: structure: d’appolonia, genoa
building services: manens, verona
traffic: systematica, milan
project coordination: studio augusti, genoa
(competition) infrastructure and structure: arup, london; off-shore construction: grootint b.v.
visualisation: rendertaxi, aachen
