Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
An Urban Green Infrastructure for Bologna: The New City’s By-Pass Highway System
The primary Italian highway connection from north to south was built during the Sixties, and Bologna was the critical passage needed to link the Tirrenic to the Adriatic destinations. After nearly sixty years, the highway has been absorbed by the urban and natural landscape, and the infrastructure is heavily under traffic and pollution stress, as well as the neighbouring communities. An infrastructure renovation is needed for functional and regenerative reasons (the infrastructure has reached its end-of-life phase). However, in such a complex and consolidated context, any action on the transport network has an urban impact. As a result, stakeholders decided to turn this merely functional need into an urban development opportunity that could regenerate highways, ring roads, bridges, and the whole urban and natural capital of the existing landscape. Over the years, the Bologna Bypass design has seen broad stakeholder involvement in a collaborative co-design process that created an innovative and transformational project. The functional strengthening has been designed with a nearly zero impact on land occupancy while maximizing the existing natural capital and adding quality to the overall landscape: more than 130 hectares of softscape reclaimed and over 30.000 new trees, green and pedestrian urban space, the installation of photovoltaic panels, watershed improvement, noise reduction innovative solutions with sound tunnels and acoustic barriers, new cycle-pedestrian paths and a complete reconnection of the territory with full functionality of the infrastructure. The Bologna Bypass represents the first significant (2.6B€ overall) infrastructure regeneration design that embodies and develops a genuinely green infrastructure and a sensitive urban development, generating socioeconomic value, maximizing benefits, and promoting sustainability. Sustainability and resilience have been measured and valued through the application of the ENVISION® framework (reaching the highest rating score), and the Life Cycle Assessment evaluations ensure a green supply chain path for the construction phase.
An Urban Green Infrastructure for Bologna: The New City’s By-Pass Highway System
The primary Italian highway connection from north to south was built during the Sixties, and Bologna was the critical passage needed to link the Tirrenic to the Adriatic destinations. After nearly sixty years, the highway has been absorbed by the urban and natural landscape, and the infrastructure is heavily under traffic and pollution stress, as well as the neighbouring communities. An infrastructure renovation is needed for functional and regenerative reasons (the infrastructure has reached its end-of-life phase). However, in such a complex and consolidated context, any action on the transport network has an urban impact. As a result, stakeholders decided to turn this merely functional need into an urban development opportunity that could regenerate highways, ring roads, bridges, and the whole urban and natural capital of the existing landscape. Over the years, the Bologna Bypass design has seen broad stakeholder involvement in a collaborative co-design process that created an innovative and transformational project. The functional strengthening has been designed with a nearly zero impact on land occupancy while maximizing the existing natural capital and adding quality to the overall landscape: more than 130 hectares of softscape reclaimed and over 30.000 new trees, green and pedestrian urban space, the installation of photovoltaic panels, watershed improvement, noise reduction innovative solutions with sound tunnels and acoustic barriers, new cycle-pedestrian paths and a complete reconnection of the territory with full functionality of the infrastructure. The Bologna Bypass represents the first significant (2.6B€ overall) infrastructure regeneration design that embodies and develops a genuinely green infrastructure and a sensitive urban development, generating socioeconomic value, maximizing benefits, and promoting sustainability. Sustainability and resilience have been measured and valued through the application of the ENVISION® framework (reaching the highest rating score), and the Life Cycle Assessment evaluations ensure a green supply chain path for the construction phase.
An Urban Green Infrastructure for Bologna: The New City’s By-Pass Highway System
Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation
Alberti, Francesco (Herausgeber:in) / Bibri, Simon Elias (Herausgeber:in) / Piselli, Cristina (Herausgeber:in) / Gallo, Paola (Herausgeber:in) / Matamanda, Abraham R. (Herausgeber:in) / Rabiei, Hamid (Herausgeber:in) / Romano, Rosa (Herausgeber:in) / Ozcan Buckley, Ayse (Herausgeber:in) / Susani, Stefano (Autor:in) / Francesconi, Enrico (Autor:in)
International Conference on Urban Planning and Architectural Design for Sustainable Development ; 2023 ; Florence, Italy
Urban and Transit Planning (Vol 1): Strategies, Innovations and Climate Management ; Kapitel: 11 ; 127-138
05.03.2025
12 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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