Green Kilometre, Mulazzano, Italy by Ghisellini Architetti 8

Green Kilometre, Mulazzano, Italy by Ghisellini Architetti

New contemporary urban park to be built from July 2023

The project for the new public park in Mulazzano aims at creating an inclusive and safe urban space, a protected and passable place where the complex of new collective activities that the local community is called to cultivate can be concentrated.

A network of pedestrian paths innervates the green area, generating a rich and dynamic “fabric” of movement, always different at every step. The system of “paths”, penetrating from the main directions of approach to the park, generates a multifaceted and articulated circulatory system that allows you to cross the area in any direction and from any point you come from.

The paths wind around themselves, drawing ring convolutions that cut out a series of specialized circular surfaces on the ground: inside, a series of functions and opportunities for use related to outdoor play, leisure time, activity physical, relaxation and more generally the well-being of the person. It is a place for which the dimensional depth of the spaces, the variety of equipment offered, and the quality of the landscape events will constitute a decisive added value.

The historic wall remains as an iconic and ordering presence, establishing the characters of the margin and regulating the incoming flows. Inside, a landscape of innovative functional, formal and landscaping matrix rewrites the characteristics of the contemporary public park: no longer a closed and timed place, a remnant of a replicated and protected landscape, but an open and transparent place, a dimension of sharing and well-being, a territory of encounter and exchange.

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Project Details:

  • Project Name: Green Kilometre
  • Location: Mulazzano, Italy
  • Year: 2023
  • Typology: Public Space/Park
  • Designer: Ghisellini Architetti
  • Design: Tomas Ghisellini, Lucrezia Alemanno
  • Structures: Beatrice Bergamini
  • Collaborators: Giorgio Barba
  • Graphic: Lucrezia Alemanno, Giorgio Barba
  • Render: Daniel Di Segni
  • Lighting: Sandro Formignani
  • Client: Municipality Of Mulazzano
  • Curated by: Unbuilt Ideas

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Rupali Gupte

Rupali Gupte is an architect and urbanist based in Mumbai, Professor at the School of Environment and Architecture (SEA) and a partner at BARDStudio. Her work often crosses disciplinary boundaries and takes different forms – writings, drawings, mixed-media works, story telling, teaching, curation, walks and spatial interventions.

Her works include extensive research on contemporary Indian urbanism with a focus on architecture and built environment; tactical practices; housing; and urban form. In 2013, she co-founded the School of Environment and Architecture (sea.edu.in). SEA is envisaged as an experimental academic space for research and education in architecture and urbanism. She has a wide range of publications, has delivered lectures and been on juries across the world. Her works in collaboration with her partner Prasad Shetty, have been shown in several exhibitions including the 56th Venice Biennale, X Sao Paolo Architecture Biennale, Seoul Biennale of Art and Architecture, at Manifesta 7 in Bolzano, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona and at galleries such as Project 88, Devi Art Foundation and the Mumbai Art Room. She has recently curated an exhibition involving artists and architects titled ‘When is Space? Conversations in Contemporary Architecture’ at the Jawahar Kala Kendra.

Rupali Gupte