Catania
URBAN SCALE: STUDY SITE
In 1970, the Detailed Town Planning was commissioned to Kenzo Tange, who designed the Librino district to improve the suburban districts in the Southern area of the town, overpassing the monocentralism.
The Librino district was supposed to be a satellite town, complete and independent, defined in the urban and architectural plan, including services and structures for 70.000 inhabitants.
At the moment, the Librino district is saturated as to residential housing, it has adequate services and a park with sport facilities is in progress, but the district has a serious situation of social urban blight.
Programmatic intentions: urban scale
Inside the perimeter of study, where, in accordance with the Town Planning, four realms have been identified with the different destinations of use, the candidates should define a project that puts into relation the functions of the site with the context. The individuation of elements able to improve the social relationship and the economic development is the objective involving the whole district to break down its feature of suburban blight, more and more increased in the latest years.
