The Archaeological Park of Pompeii wins the “CITY'SCAPE Award 2024” in two categories, for its strategic vision of sustainable environmental regeneration capable of addressing the impact of climate change on cultural heritage. The winners were announced at the Salone d'Onore of the Triennale di Milano – out of 242 applications received – of the international “CITY'SCAPE” Award 2024 promoted and organized by the National Council of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects and Conservationists and by Paysage - Promotion and Development for Landscape Architecture, within the International Symposium “CITY'SCAPE. Landscape as a strategy. Landscape quality in climate change for urban and social resilience”.
The contest collects best practices, case studies, research and/or innovations aimed at improving the destiny of places in all their forms and at promoting, within the context of Landscape Architecture, effective design strategies capable of attributing new ecological, ethical, economic and social values to territories.
The Archaeological Park of Pompeii won the First Prize, ex Aequo with the Royal Palace of Caserta, in category D – Interventions on parks and gardens of historical, artistic or landscape interest, with the project Restoring, Regenerating, Caring for the Landscape of Pompeii presented by the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, Director Gabriel Zuchtriegel. Project by Arch. Paolo Mighetto, Architect Official of the Ministry of Culture, Head of the Green Care Area of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii and Dr. Maurizio Bartolini, First Gardener of the Park.
The “organic” management of Pompeii’s greenery is now becoming the protagonist of experiments in restoration with plant components, for example in the Insula Meridionalis construction site; the Pompeian Flora Nursery has been regenerated in the Casa di Pansa (2021) as a center for production and research on ancient cultivation with selection of ancient species to be reused in the gardens of the Domus, reconstructed; this was joined (2024) by the Botanical Garden of Via dell'Abbondanza while the Orto Tinctorio of Regio VI is being created and the Grande Orto Sociale del Polverificio Borbonico has now been active for a year.
Alongside the regeneration of the archaeological-agrarian landscape through the co-management partnership that has already led to the production of the Pùmpaiia branded Campania IGP evo oil and the recovery of the vineyards, the redevelopment of the path outside the walls of the Green Ring is accompanied by the creation of the “Sacred Woods” and the “Fruit Woods” with over 7.000 new plants, all with the adoption of falconry practices for the protection and rebalancing of the avifauna as well as active social inclusion with the “Art Friendly Tulip” and the “Manifesto of Beauty” that involve people with autism and cognitive disabilities, disadvantaged categories and prisoners, students of the Pompeii high school in social agriculture activities and participatory planning and management of green areas.
The Archaeological Park of Pompeii also won a mention in the H- Tourism Landscape category, with the project: A green ring for the Ancient City of Pompeii, a project by Studio Bellesi Giuntoli with the Archaeological Park of Pompeii (RUP Paolo Mighetto): Alberto Giuntoli, Lorenzo Pacini, Silvia Bellesi, Lorenzo Casulli, Fabio Villasanta, Martina Simeone, Milena Meniconi (Studio Bellesi Giuntoli), Prof. Eng. Alessandro Marradi (MCP srl), Dr. Giovanni Minucci (Il Tulipano Cooperativa Sociale).
A Green Ring for Pompei it is the landscape masterplan for the areas outside the walls of Pompeii, a circuit of about 4 km that leads from Porta Anfiteatro to Villa di Diomede and Porta Marina, reconnecting to the ring road of Viale delle Ginestre (designed by Amedeo Maiuri between 1950-'54), the Grande Pineta, San Paolino, the Necropolis of Porta Nocera: a place where the ancient city, the walls with its towers, the necropolis and the rustic villas coexist with the agricultural landscape which, starting from the excavations of 1748, has been transformed into a literary and cultural landscape.
The primary objective of the project, which, in the form of a Framework Agreement, will be developed over a three-year period from July 2024 to July 2026, is to improve the usability of the Park, enriching the cultural offering through the design of new routes, the inclusion of areas for rest, picnics, games, games without games (i.e. where the landscape itself becomes playful without the need for special equipment), fitness, natural observatories, as well as achieving better landscape and ecological contextualization also through the inclusion of natural elements such as spontaneous blooms, medicinal herbs, shrubs, hedges, trees, rain gardens to highlight interesting views and constitute models of balanced environmental management.
“The Archaeological Park of Pompeii is proud of these results which confirm the ever-increasing interest and care of our institution towards the themes of greenery, landscape and biodiversity as natural components of cultural heritage” commented the Director of the Archaeological Park Gabriel Zuchtriegel.
Article published on 15 July 2024 - 11:19
