Menu principale:
..MASTERPLAN
CREDITS
EUROPAN 2010 -
GRUPPO DI PROGETTAZIONE
con Massimo Frigerio, Flavio Gilberti, Emilio Braian Giobbi, Davide Guidetti, Massimo Masneri
COMMITTENTE
Comune di Riga
DESTINAZIONE FUNZIONALE
Residenziale-
SUPERFICIE
130.000 mq
The primary target of the project is the creation of a new urban settlement linked at the same time to the fabric of the city (both the well-
Instead of confirming the longitudinal strategy indicated by the masterplan, that steers the urban fabric through monofunctional strips parallel to Daugava River, our project believes in the need to create a break, a discontinuity in comparison with the overall strategy expected for this area.
The design strategy is in fact easily summarizable: thanks to the concentration of most part of the residential and public buildings in a multifunctional platform, placed perpendicularly to the main arteries – the water and the transport artery – it’s possible to shape a big park that expands from the interior to the riverfront.
It means high density for the building area, a density that sets free the existing green area. This way masterplan’s aims are not just confirmed but even accentuated: thanks to the chosen strategy it’s possible to produce a multiplicity of wide (a “real” park, a “real” square, a “real” riverfront) addressed to the entire population of Riga; it’s possible to give public facilities (as the panoramic auditorium placed at the end of the platform that hold a dialogue with the Riga Tower, the public promenade that creates a new point of view for the city and provides different functions, etc.); it’s possible to provide the area with commercial facilities under the platform that serve the entire competition area, and at last to create a new monumental element – the main tower – that with its height hold a dialogue with the other historical symbols of the city.
Last but not least, the strategy is developed taking sustainability as the focus point, in order to create an eco-