Archea Associati

Merate Piazza

Merate Piazza
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MERATE PIAZZA

Archea

ARCHITECT
Archea

STRUCTURES
Studio Myallonnier

PHOTOGRAPHS
Pietro Savorelli

AREA
5280.0 sqm

YEAR
2010

LOCATION
Piazza Italia, 23807 Merate LC, Italy

CATEGORY
Plaza

Merate Piazza
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Merate Piazza
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Text description provided by architect.

The site is set between the established city and new developments near Merate’s historic center.

Merate Piazza
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Merate Piazza
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Merate Piazza
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Merate Piazza
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The instructions for the project for this area, which covers more than a square hectare, were set in the city’s general urban plan and by the public who had opposed an earlier proposal to turn the area into a service industry district.

The project includes an underground parking lot and a landscaped green area compatible with the established urban fabric and its emerging features.

Merate Piazza
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Merate Piazza
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The proposal keeps to the idea of a park and a square, maintaining the built city’s spirit without imposing its own volumes; a system of rampart/terraces navigates the changes in levels with stairways and ramps, organizing the square’s area in panoramic levels.

Making use of the natural shifts in levels and the spaces freed from the containment walls for the new roofs covered with a simple grass layer.

Merate Piazza
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Merate Piazza
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The project creates an outdoor theatre, spaces for cultural organizations and a café, plus an underground parking lot with over 130 spaces.

The greenery of the lawn and the trees combines with vertical and sloping surfaces that are covered in hand-made brick that is narrow and elongated, that gives uniformity and relates the new square to the building tradition of the city’s central tower.

Merate Piazza
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Merate Piazza
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Merate Piazza
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Merate Piazza
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Merate Piazza
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Merate Piazza
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Merate Piazza
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Merate Piazza
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Merate Piazza
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