REDEVELOPMENT OF THE FALCOMATÀ SEAFRONT IN REGGIO CALABRIA
Reggio Calabria (Italy)
2022 – in progress
Project for the redevelopment of Corso Matteotti in the upper part of Falcomatà seafront, a promenade that extends for about 1.7 km along the coastal strip of Reggio Calabria, between Piazza Indipendenza and Piazza Garibaldi.
area: 24.000 sqm
client: Comune di Reggio Calabria
project: Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia *AF517 with Michelangelo Pugliese
structural engineering: Artuso Architetti Associati
services engineering Sertec Engineering Consulting
images: ©Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia/AF517 con Diorama
“THE CITY OF MEMORY”
“But the city does not tell its past, it contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, […] every segment marked in turn with scratches, notches, carvings, scrolls.”
(Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino)
“But the city does not tell its past, it contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, […] every segment marked in turn with scratches, notches, carvings, scrolls.”
(Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino)
The Project Actions provide for a series of interventions that are distributed over an area of 1.7 km.
Specifically, the ones with the greatest weight are certainly those related to the existing pavement on the Falcomatà and C.so Matteotti seafront, as well as on the transverse connections between the two main roads mentioned above.
The project actions are developed on the 5 main themes:
– resumption of the pedestrian section on the Falcomatà promenade,
– redesign of the pedestrian cross paths,
– increase of the pedestrian section on the Matteotti course by 50 cm,
– renovation of the pedestrian pavement sections in stone, curbs in stone,
– installation of a new and more efficient lighting system and video surveillance system
Specifically, the ones with the greatest weight are certainly those related to the existing pavement on the Falcomatà and C.so Matteotti seafront, as well as on the transverse connections between the two main roads mentioned above.
The project actions are developed on the 5 main themes:
– resumption of the pedestrian section on the Falcomatà promenade,
– redesign of the pedestrian cross paths,
– increase of the pedestrian section on the Matteotti course by 50 cm,
– renovation of the pedestrian pavement sections in stone, curbs in stone,
– installation of a new and more efficient lighting system and video surveillance system