The Casa Fratelli Tutti Foundation presents the Campo Laudato si' masterplan inspired by the principles of integral ecology defined by Pope Francis.
The project concept that flies towards the candidacy of the new Macrico in the list of the Jubilee 2025, becomes real by tracing the foundations of a new model of economic development and integral ecology.
"Aspiring to become a place of interreligious, inclusive, intercultural and intergenerational dialogue, the design process of the former Campo di Marte includes two distinct phases: Masterprogram and Masterplan - begins to explain the architect Massimo Alvisi - The first includes a plan of structural interventions aimed at identifying key drivers for the social fabric and urban planning, alongside a careful construction of a framework for public and private investment; the second, instead, responds to the planned investments with targeted solutions for creating green spaces and public activities, reducing the built environment and seeking a new connection with the urban context..
The masterplan's single structure, divided into ten squares, 756 meters of waterways, 511 trees, 250 square meters of greenery, and over 40 square meters of renovated buildings, has the primary objective of redeveloping the area as a solution to urban decay. The Alvisi-Kirimoto firm notes that the currently abandoned area extends over 324.000 square meters, leading to the Corso Trieste, the city's main thoroughfare, to the east and to the Royal Palace of Caserta to the west.
"Given the strategic urbanistic position – continues Alvisi - Just a 15-minute walk from the city center, the project represents a crucial point between the Royal Palace, the historic center, and the new development areas, as well as a potential green lung for the city. Our aim is to adhere to the "15-minute city" paradigm, which promotes improved quality of life, reduced traffic congestion, and reduced CO2 and particulate pollution.
Symbol of industrial reconversion, green infrastructure combines the objectives of regeneration with the programmatic points of the encyclical Laudato si', thus understanding the interactions between the natural environment, society, its cultures, institutions and the economy.
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"Where, by natural we mean the desire to reduce the ecological footprint – continues Alvisi - helping to limit the impact of consumption on the environment, through actions aimed at protecting and enhancing environmental elements such as water, air, land, biodiversity, and energy. By fostering a balanced relationship between the environment, people, spirituality, sociality, and the economy, we aim to achieve the desired result: fostering new, responsible, supportive, and collaborative economic models capable of addressing poverty and the vulnerability of the most vulnerable.
"This is a project idea without precedent in Europe and perhaps the world," says Christian Iaione, "a model that places common goods and vulnerable communities at its center and is therefore also in line with the principles of the Constitution and European public policies, which now require public and private investments to be directed unwaveringly toward the objectives of sustainable development, a just ecological and technological transition, care, culture, education, hospitality, inclusion, peace, and solidarity."
The professor of Lab.gov (LABoratory for the GOVernance of common goods, a non-profit spin-off of students and researchers of Luiss Guido Carli) has been given the task of promoting the valorization of the abandoned heritage of the area, strategic planning and the activation of all innovation processes.
"The Diocese, the community and the city of Caserta thus offer an example to be followed by present and future generations of public and private decision-makers," concludes Iaione.
"The Bishop's dream begins to take shape – adds the president of the Foundation, Monsignor Giovanni Vella - with a year-long, demanding, collaborative and listening effort, which will continue in the coming months to intercept suggestions that can improve the project".
The episcopal vicar, in thanking the professionals and all those belonging to civil society who actively supported the architects and experts in common goods with proposals and ideas, reminds us that the first meeting between the designers and the city will take place on Saturday, September 30th at 16:00 PM, as part of the Laudato si' Festival.
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