Piazza d'Armi

What: : International competition for the construction of a new urban park, with auditorium and administrative offices.
Who: Comune de L’Aquila
Where: L’Aquila - Italy
When: 2012
AREA: 180.000 sq. m
AREA49: Giacomo Penco | Proginvest

The project for a new urban park in L'Aquila that aims to reconnect the historical fabric of the city that was devastated by the earthquake, to a new area of urban development for the future.  
The available area (former Piazza d'Armi) is thus divided and reinterpreted following the imprint of the Roman centuriation.

The resulting patchwork makes it possible to merge the existing sports fields within a system of paths and the green strips  are treated in a differentiated way.

 New administrative offices will also be located to the west of the new park, while in a more central position is the new auditorium, connected to a work of land-art in memory of the victims of the earthquake, characterized by a large-scale sign engraved in the ground.