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Dominique Perrault
Piazza Garibaldi in Naples
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Projects Garibaldi Square in Naples
1 The Quarter of the 5 Stations. The following five The Gallery, an underground urban space. The
Sequence of the multiple stations are found within the Garibaldi area: the underground piazza is also a gallery and open-air
stages of preliminary study
for the project
Central Railway Station, the future High Speed passageway. We imagine the available space as
2 Station, the Circumvesuviana Station and the two divided into an open part and a covered part: in
Graphic elaboration of underground stations for line 1 and 2. In order to the northern part there is an open space of gar-
overall view of the great move towards a solution to the complex conges- dens, a play and rest area, and the Central Station
roof
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tion problems in this area, we considered it a pri- piazza; in the southern part, there is a covered
Main facade of the covered ority to carefully consider a well-calibrated line of space, a large roof that protects the underground
walkway action that would aim to reorganize the Quarter piazza where pedestrian traffic mixes uses of di-
4 of the 5 Stations and strengthen its transportation verse origins and purposes.
Longitudinal section
showing the vertical
resources. The great roof. The architectural presence of the
connection between the The urban system of Garibaldi 1 + Garibaldi 2. The Central Station with its tower and large cantilever
ground floor and the gallery connective fabric around the stations consists of roof is a fundamental value for Piazza Garibaldi.
below a circuit of urban spaces organized in a system: The Station is here and forms a basic architectural
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Cross section of the great
Garibaldi 1 and Garibaldi 2. This makes it neces- references for us. Our project for a great roof in-
roof and the underground sary to expand the project to a system consisting cluding both Garibaldi 1 and Garibaldi 2 originat-
gallery of Garibaldi 1 + Garibaldi 2, particularly with an ed and developed as a growth and transformation
eye to urban transformations related to the incom- of the theme of protection, refuge and cover. This
ing and outgoing flows forecast by the High Speed roof develops as a prismatic surface that shines
project and eastward extension of the city. in the light based on different cladding solutions
New traffic organization. Our project plans to of perforated metal with different densities and
conserve and enhance the innate identity of the degrees of permeability to water and light.
place, while seeking to solve its major problems A project in phases. The progression of the entire
with traffic congestion and the very fragmentary project has been planned in phases: the first phase
use of the spaces by pedestrians. This project gen- includes building the underground station line 1,
erates a kind of circuit around the entire Quarter the gallery, the square and the large roof (2010), in
of the 5 Stations area that intensifies the dialec- that order; the second phase includes completing
tic between its two sides and may spur a positive the project that specifically pertains to Garibaldi
process of reactivating and redeveloping some 1; and the third phase includes completing the
adjacent areas that are currently stagnant. Garibaldi 2 system.