The re -connection of the fragmented urban substance of the city is the main goal of the Napoli Porta Est proposal by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) Napoli Porta Est, which was appointed as the winner of the design competition.
This area in the east of Naples suffers from the lack of integration of its urban substance, which leads to the resolution of the city. The inadequate public spaces of the district as well as its physical and psychological barriers are isolated and is considered insecure, hinder mobility and social interaction.
The master plan includes the eastern areas of Naples, which are particularly affected by the decommissioning of its heavy industries in recent decades. The master plan promotes the sustainable and resistant urban transformation of the dilapidated industrial zone of the city and introduces the infrastructure, which is able to adjust, as well as the creation of a new urban park and the recovery of the disused railway stations for public use.
The design of the city, which serves as a gateway to the Italian National Transport Network, solves the considerable traffic jam on one of the main exchange of the city and enables the potential to connect the east of the city to the historical center of Naples again.
By removing the barrier created by the redundant Railyards, the master plan enables the more than 30 -hectare industrial building, including the former Herhattura Tabacchi factory and other dilapidated buildings in the industrial zone of Feltrinelli to use them from residents of the city.
ZHA's proposal also offers the city additional options by enabling the future conversion of more than 100 hectares of the outdated Q8 oil depot of the district into a new district with citizenship and amenities for its local community.
The Napoli Porta Est Masterplan International Design competition was organized by the Campania region together with the city council of Naples, the FS Sistemi Urbani (the regeneration group of the Italian RFI National Railways) and the train operator EAV.
Location history and context
- The site is a former maintenance railyard on the eastern edge of the city of Naples and its industrial zone. The terrain has been abandoned and expired for decades and is currently one of the largest urban regeneration projects in Europe. (Similar to the scale of the King Cross development in London with 15 hectares of land to be returned to the city.)
- The project is transformed over 10 hectares of this country into landscape gardens and squares that were planted in cooperation with Martha Schwartz as a city park with trees in the region.
- The entire master plan connects several neighboring zones of the city of Naples, which have been developed as different, isolated areas in the past decades: the Centro Derszional (CBD), the station, the Mercato and the Oriental Zone, with a design, the priority of pedestrians and multimodal transportation under the ground.
- The master plan defines its design and follows the established urban plan of Naples in order to promote the sustainable future of the city as a bourgeois, cultural, economic and transported center in southern Italy and to promote Tower Heights into the entire massage of urban plan.
- The lower level of the new regional headquarters houses public functions such as a conference center, a cinema and the trading zones, while the towers will house the regional government offices that offer facilities for employees and visitors.
- The site also includes a new regional train station together with a living development and a pedestrian bridge, which is connected to the existing Centro Direziane (CBD).
Architectural design
- New green rooms for the city with the creation of public gardens and large park.
- Urban connections with green and sidewalks that lead Porta Nolana's pedestrian traffic to the central station and the new park, including a proposal for a connection via a pedestrian path with the Centro Direzonic and its new U -Bahn station.
The new headquarters in the Campania region:
- Accessibility: Designed as an integrative and accessible Civic Hub
- Energy performance: The compact form of the towers improves energy efficiency, reduces footprint and creates more public green areas.
- Impact with natural elements: The cover optimizes natural elements – light, wind and panoramic image – to ensure excellent thermal insulation, reduce the sun's load and glare without affecting the spectacular view of the Gulf of Naples, VesUV and the surrounding hills.
- Optimize natural light: The facade design takes into account the movement of the sun during the day: openings are maximized so that the natural light gets into the buildings and the views increases, while direct sunlight is minimized on other facades of the buildings in order to reduce the energy requirement. The optimization of the natural light values indoors reduces the energy requirement after artificial lighting, which is one of the largest energy consumers in modern office buildings.
- If you put the core in the middle of the buildings, the deep floor plans limit to improve the effectiveness of natural light, while spectral selective glazing reduces the gain in the sun and the glare of heat heat.
- Bioclimatic solutions: natural ventilation, green roofs and passive systems to ensure energy efficiency and sustainability.
- Sustainability and security: high seismic performance, sustainable resource management, cam and DNSH conformity.
- Hybrid construction system: The construction system will be hybrid concrete/steel of local suppliers who ensure precise control over construction costs and times, and above all guarantees the best performance and flexibility.
- Construction phases: Construction is divided into phases in order to enable immediate use of the completed areas to ensure efficiency throughout the process.
- Dynamic and flexible hub: The headquarters are a highly functional workplace and an integrative center that can adapt to future needs.
- The new headquarters of the Campania region is framed by trees lined with trees that lead to the new city park. The architecture arises from the green areas without interruption and blur the transition between the landscape and architecture in order to reconnect the city's urbanism with nature.
sustainability
- Pedestrian numbers to reconnect local communities and companies with the historical center, which is currently separated from the city's urban structure.
- Biodive landscape with extensive vegetation to reduce the risk of flood and to promote mobility in a comfortable microclimate.
- 7,000 m² photovoltaic system on roofs and roofing
Climate of resistant master plan
- Use of recycled water to maintain vegetation and reduce drinking water consumption by 60%.
- Significant use of local geothermal energy supply.
- “Sponge City” public spaces that absorb water to avoid flooding.
- Mitigate urban heat island effects through passive design.
Climate resistant architecture
- Standard class A NZEB.
- Leed Platinum destination for towers.
- Bioclimatic facade design with a reduced ratio of glass surfaces that shake themselves and enable natural ventilation.
- Light structure and facade for towers to reduce embodied carbon.
Napoli Porta Est Masterplan project details:
Architects: Zaha Hadid Architects (architecture and master planning)
Responsible director: Michele Pasca di Magliano
Location: Naples, Italy