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The project thus has the aims of initiating new processes
of “colonisation” of the area so that the productive
landscape once again becomes a defining element
of that area, in that it takes account of the nature of
contemporary markets, and ensuring that the presence
of the infrastructure does not lead to physical fragmentation
but rather becomes part of the model of growth.
The functional reconversion of this agricultural area
surrounded by three infrastructural axes (one motorway
and two railway lines) becomes sustainable as a result
of the study and planning of its peripheral zones, in the
sense of connective tissue that consolidates and gives
a new identity to the area of reference.
Once the conclusions of the multi-criteria analysis on
a metropolitan scale were established, it was necessary
to proceed to an analysis of the permeability of
the peripheral zones on a small scale. The study and
comparison of the connective potential of the three dynamic
elements of the Landscape-Infrastructure (land/
infrastructure/installations) and their structural variations
led to the creation of an analytical table [Fig. 2a] of the
peripheral zones of the area.
From this it was possible to produce an operational
table [Fig. 2b], or in other words a diagram of the
morphological, geographic and connective potential of
the Marangona, as evident from the characteristics of its
peripheral zones. After the analysis stage, the operational
table on the one hand highlights those placet where
connectivity proved to be limited or lacking and, on the
other hand, redefines the role of the area, both in terms
of its form/make-up and functionality.
The potential of the project site was then developed in
the strategic masterplan at a local level, leading to a
redesignation of the area under examination in terms
of its qualitative and quantitative roles and its capacity
to ensure continuity in the network of the Landscape-
Infrastructure. The strategic masterplan involves the
Marangona Technological Science Centre through
the functional reconversion of an area which sees the
productive local landscape as a primary resource in the
new inter-scale system.
The development of this planning strategy broadly
aims to ensure economic, ecological and social continuity
in the area via an intercorrelation between, on the
one hand, the infrastructural scale, the inter-regional
and metropolitan scale, and, on the other hand, the
scale of geographical proximity, the local scale and the
neighbourhood scale.
Conclusions
The research into the transformations of the Verona
urban landscape produced by the economic and
functional consequences of the new pan-European
infrastructural networks offered an opportunity for the
functional and logistic expansion of the strategic area of
“Marangona Triangle” according to the metropolitan and
geographical main features.
The “Landscape-Infrastructure” analytic approach
considers the “peripheral zone” the key to the manifestation
and interpretation of the morphological, geographical
and connective potential of the areas affected by
the processes of urban development, seeing that zone
as the point of exchange between contiguous microareas
belonging to the urban eco-system. This new
analytical and conceptual tool is designed to modulate
the reciprocal processes of integration between “Infrastructure”
and “Landscape”, through the search for a
common denominator to enable interpretation of their
various components.
Fig 3: Strategic masterplan and Technological Science Park Overall View
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