SAN DONÀ-Venezia from ATVO Bus Station to the New Urban Metabolisms
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EUROPAN 16 ITALIA Living Cities SAN DONÀ-Venezia from ATVO bus station to the new urban metabolisms C1 C2 C3 1 ORGANIZATIONOFTHECOMPETITION Site representatives City of San Donà di Piave Actors involved ATVO, City of San Donà di Piave Team representative Architect, urban planner, landscape designer, engineer-architect Expected skills Architects, landscape architects, planners with expert knowledge in the regarding the site’s environmental sector, designers, social scientists, innovators, artists, issues and economists characteristics National communication Communication after the results of the competition with an exhibition of of projects all projects, awards ceremony and publication of results (March-April 2022). Jury - first session The representatives of the sites meet the Jury before the start of works to clarify any questions about the program and goals. Post-Competition Workshops locally with the prize-winning teams: winner, runner-up, special Intermediate Procedure mention, to be defined the roadmap according to the process. The Municipality reserves the right to finalize the results of the workshop giving to the winner or to a team of award-winning designers, the commission for successive project steps or for an urban study, by negotiated procedure, provided that the professional subject has the technical and economic requirements in relation to the levels of the project to be developed and which will be defined subsequently at the results of the workshop. In case the professional(s) is not satisfy the requirements, he will associate with other parties in accordance with Article 46, paragraph 1 of D.Lgs.50 / 2016, which satisfay the requirements, in the forms of temporary teams and / or using the availment tool art. 89 of Legislative Decree. N. 50/2016 EUROPAN 16 living cities EUROPAN 2 EUROPAN 16SAN DONÀSHORTLY Interaction with the Living Cities topic The challenge starts with the advantage of an The city is in a phase of transformation and accessible area, for those who use the bicycle relaunch, through a series of programs already and for those who use public transport, and also under construction. The relocation of the ATVO equipped with covered spaces. bus station to the new Porta Nuova hub is an The City ask for young European professionals opportunity for the city to enrich the system of for new models capable of giving vitality to the connections with its environmental, social, cultural urban center. and economic values. The San Donà of the future is the city of all Strategic thinking for the ATVO must consider people, accessible, inclusive, capable of new attractive functions in the urban center, even developing interventions to avoid the decreased for non-resident citizens. Part of the project are birth-rate, through targeted projects for young the new relationships to be defined on the couples. "Piave river - urban center - Porta Nuova" axis. It A city that is characterized by the quality of life is necessary to activate new metabolisms starting and well-being, with places for sport and outdoor from the ATVO area of Piazza IV Novembre: a life; that guarantees a good cultural, educational, central place for the city and a hinge towards the health and service offer. main axis of transformation. EUROPAN 16 living cities EUROPAN 3 INDEX C1 C2 C3 TERRITORIAL AND URBAN STRATEGIC SITE PROJECT SITE CONTEXT The City of San Donà di Description Description Piave p.19 p.24 p.6 Programs at strategic site Project guidelines Connections scale p.25 p.9 p.22 Credits Demographics p.26 p.11 Socio-economic and cultural context p.12 Events p.14 Strategic tools and programs p.15 EUROPAN 16 living cities EUROPAN 4 C1 TERRITORIALURBANCONTEXT 5 C1 The City In 1915 the environmental metamorphosis of the San Donà di Piave, a city in the Eastern Veneto territory is complete. The productivity of the region, rises on the banks of the Piave river. It area increased, railway and vaporetto represents the third most populous municipality connection services were established, the road of the Metropolitan City of Venice and the ninth network was expanded and industries and municipality of the Veneto Region by number of services were opened for the population. The inhabitants. The territory extends for about 79 impact of the First World War on San Donà was square kilometers, along the axis of the Piave devastating. From 13 November 1917 began river and between the Sile and Livenza rivers. San the long months of trench warfare, culminating Donà shares its limits with Noventa di Piave, in the Battle of the Solstice. Salgareda, Cessalto, Chiarano, Ceggia, Torre di In the autumn of 1918 the Italian army launched Mosto, Eraclea, Jesolo, Musile di Piave, Fossalta the decisive offensive against the Austro- di Piave. Hungarian positions and on 31 October 1918 The city center of San Donà di Piave is 16 km San Donà returned to Italian hands. from the coast, 6 km from the Venice lagoon, 70 The toll of the war was heavy: the city km from the Dolomites. The Piave river connects infrastructures completely destroyed and most 3 Unesco heritage sites: the Dolomites, the of the architectural and artistic heritage Prosecco hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene, irretrievably lost. The first post-war period was Venice and its lagoon. characterized by the complete reconstruction of the city and the restoration of socio-economic The first settlements were born on river deposits, activities, of the inter-municipal road network along the Grassaga, an ancient branch of the and of the railway service. Piave. The Romans began the transformation of In 1940 Italy entered the war alongside Germany these lands with the centuriation (first reclamation and in 1944 the city was subjected to several work) and the infrastructures (stone bridges and bombings that destroyed the Verdi Theater and roads). Of the traces of the Roman reclamation, the Umberto I Hospital. On April 25, 1945 the only a few geometries remain visible in the insurrection of the city was proclaimed and on current reclamation. The flood of the Piave in the same day San Donà was freed. 1250 diverted its course by moving the chapel of San Donato (San Donà) from the left bank to the right, where Musile di Piave stands today. From the early Middle Ages it will be necessary to wait for the end of the war between the Serenissima and the Kingdom of Hungary, to start the development of the territory that the Republic encouraged by offering tax exemptions to farmers willing to relocate. In 1468 the Republic rented the Gastaldia of San Donà which later became the private possession of the Trevisan family. The growth of the urban center was initially difficult, due to the instability of the hydraulic balance of the area, which in the 19th century was still largely occupied by the marshes, residues of the great lake of the Piave. In 1797, the Municipality of San Donà was established, the capital of one of the fifteen cantons of the Treviso district. The first consortia for the reclamation of the areas arose; the urban center was enriched with palaces, commercial buildings and a new cathedral, built between 1838 and EUROPAN 16 living cities EUROPAN 1841. 6 C1 Piazza Indipendenza The urban fabric of San Donà includes : Although the built-up area is compact, there are, • a historical nucleus; within it, diverse building types: single-family and • a semi-ring peri-urban system; semi-detached buildings, terraced buildings, • a ring of peri-urban agricultural areas, building curtains, multi-storey apartment between the town and the new ring road; buildings. • the streets undergoing transformation, on The numerous hamlets located within the which the commercial areas (Tecnopolis) municipal territory (in the right area Piave: and the production areas are connected, Passarella, Chiesanuova, S. Maria di Piave, both of the first plant (such as the industrial Caposile; in the left area Piave: Palazzetto, Isiata, area of via Kennedy) and of new formation Fiorentina, Fossà, Calvecchia, Cittanova; in the (area of via Bassette, welded to that of north: Mussetta and Grassaga) maintain small Noventa di Piave) ; dimensions, associating pieces of more recent • the satellite nuclei of the hamlets, building fabric with the consolidated settlements. distributed along the territorial roads starting from the center of San Donà; • the agricultural space of environmental relationship. Aerial view of 1918 from which is visible the development of the urban fabric -source www.14-18.it EUROPAN 16 living cities EUROPAN 7 C1 The environmental components • agricultural areas intended for repopulation The city geographically belongs both to the oases near the archaeological area and close to lagoon area and to the plain with different the lagoon, which, due to the abundance of characters: water, is the perfect habitat for animal species, • to the north the more mature territory of insects, amphibians and small mammals; ancient reclamation; • the nearby environmental sites of community • to the south, recent reclamations with lower interest: the Cessalto wood, the upper lagoon altitudes than sea level; of Venice and the special protection area • between the two, the riverbed and paleo-beds IT3250046. of the Piave river. The ecological discontinuities due to the anthropized territory and the presence of As a land of reclamation, a large part of the productive settlements and high traffic municipal surface lies below sea level and is infrastructures are critical factors for the drained by the daily work of dewatering pumps naturalistic development and