CHIARA TASSINARI Portfolio 2010

A new concept of town should be conceived on
the basis of a model linking the development of
the town to the enhancement of its surrounding
landscape value, both by valorising the existing
vegetation and by paying more attention to the
exploitation of the environmental resources.
The urban sustainability is based on the ability
to regenerate non-regenerating natural
resources (air and water), to limit the intensive
exploitation of land, and to ensure
theenvironmental compatibility of infrastructures
and mobility.
The boundary – a privileged area in terms of
landscape – should result from the intersection
of different interventions, not always related to
the building activity (i.e. roads, squares, parks,
etc.), and the rural organisation of the territory.
Hence, these areas may be designed as a
whole with the “central” ones, avoiding the
current distinction between the centre and the
outer city. The borders of the town will also
become qualitatively significant.
Extending the concept of multicentricity from the
borders to the centre, it is possible to establish
the total territorial surface of the town as well as
its shape, defined by a network of roads,
squares and blocks. This system is very simple
and allows to create - even in different steps -
districts and parts of the town, which are at the
same time different and similar because of the
same scheme.
The new structure proposed for Sukari, with its
multifunctional network of town-districts,
integrates the centre and the outer city instead
of privileging one over the other.
The services should be organised according to
the three territorial levels that compose and
identify the town: blocks (about 3-5,000
inhabitants), districts (about 15,000 inhabitants),
and urban areas (about 45,000 inhabitants).
From a functional point of view, any activity
aimed at meeting a common social need has
been considered as a service.
The types of services identified are the
following: education, health and social care,
culture and entertainment, trade, green
recreation spaces, sport, religion, safety,
transport, waste collection, local administration.
Each identified territorial level should be
assigned specific service structures,
proportional
to the number of users. For example, in the field
of education, the block should be assigned an
early childhood centre and a nursery school,
while the district and the urban area should be
assigned a primary and secondary school and a
high school, respectively.
This system should be extended to all the
services, in order to ensure each part of the
town a different accessibility level: on foot
(blocks), by bike or the public transport system
(district) and by private vehicles (urban areas).
The general urban quality of the town of Sukari
as well as the scope of each residential and
productive intervention should be identified by
the services network, on the basis of a
progressive development of the settlement that
should be completed within approximately 20-
30 years.