Via Sparano e Borgo Murattiano
Bari - Italy
TITLE
Riqualificazione di via Sparano e del Borgo Murattiano, Bari
CLIENT
Comune di Bari
TIPOLOGY
Urban redevelopment
STATE
Built
The Via Sparano project partakes of a vision of the city as a vast space to be restored to public traversal use as a cognitive, creative experience and a chance to meet and relate. Via Sparano Is the main urban thoroughfare, and the centrality and importance of the places that flank it connote it as the most important axis, capable through its development of structuring a more effective orientation and perception of its space.
Via Sparano is not just a thoroughfare to be pedestrianized and embellished. Its redevelopment takes on an urban dimension, offering itself as a model for a strategy that can be extended to other parts of the city.
A family jewel to showcase
The whole axial sequence connecting Piazza Aldo Moro to downtown along Via Sparano gives the street a rhythm, a sort of musical score made of textures, pauses, upbeats, amplifications and thematic areas. Designed as a true catalyst capable of livening the entire city with its new identity, a place at the edge between inner and outer, via Sparano combines the different souls of motion and stasis, business and art, tradition and innovation.
The final goal is to make this street a real family jewel to show off, seeing the thoroughfare within a larger system, a sort of urban platform of substantial depth in the structure of the city.
In this way the public spaces of the businesses lining the street interact to create a series of architectural episodes that bring the large commercial interiors into contact with the city’s public space, and vice versa. These theme areas – living room squares – are moments of pause and reflection marked by a change of flooring and the presence of exceptional elements.
The project includes eight lounges corresponding to the city’s attractors along Via Sparano; starting from Piazza della Stazione we find the Salotto della Musica, Il Salotto Verde, the Literary Salotto, the Liberty Lounge, the Salotto del culto, the Salotto della Moda and finally the Salotto di Bari Vecchia. The street’s character is enhanced as a sort of openair museum by placing along the way a series of sculptures and artistic flooring that make it possible in some areas to set up temporary installations.
Credits
DESIGN ARCHITECTS Tstudio – Guendalina Salimei, Arch. Marina De Marco
URBAN PLANNING Arch. Rosario Pavia con F. Contuzzi
MEP Ing. Antonio Violante, Ing. Raffaele Digiesi
LANDSCAPE DESIGN Arch. Giancarlo Fantilli
CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISION A. Toritto, Comune di Bari
CONTRACTOR De Marco Costruzioni
Photography
Via Sparano e Borgo Murattiano
Torino - Italy
TITLE
Riqualificazione di via Sparano e del Borgo Murattiano, Bari
CLIENT
Comune di Bari
TIPOLOGY
Urban redevelopment
STATE
Built
The Via Sparano project partakes of a vision of the city as a vast space to be restored to public traversal use as a cognitive, creative experience and a chance to meet and relate. Via Sparano Is the main urban thoroughfare, and the centrality and importance of the places that flank it connote it as the most important axis, capable through its development of structuring a more effective orientation and perception of its space.
Via Sparano is not just a thoroughfare to be pedestrianized and embellished. Its redevelopment takes on an urban dimension, offering itself as a model for a strategy that can be extended to other parts of the city.
A family jewel to showcase
The whole axial sequence connecting Piazza Aldo Moro to downtown along Via Sparano gives the street a rhythm, a sort of musical score made of textures, pauses, upbeats, amplifications and thematic areas. Designed as a true catalyst capable of livening the entire city with its new identity, a place at the edge between inner and outer, via Sparano combines the different souls of motion and stasis, business and art, tradition and innovation.
The final goal is to make this street a real family jewel to show off, seeing the thoroughfare within a larger system, a sort of urban platform of substantial depth in the structure of the city.
Living Machines
In this way the public spaces of the businesses lining the street interact to create a series of architectural episodes that bring the large commercial interiors into contact with the city’s public space, and vice versa. These theme areas – living room squares – are moments of pause and reflection marked by a change of flooring and the presence of exceptional elements.
The project includes eight lounges corresponding to the city’s attractors along Via Sparano; starting from Piazza della Stazione we find the Salotto della Musica, Il Salotto Verde, the Literary Salotto, the Liberty Lounge, the Salotto del culto, the Salotto della Moda and finally the Salotto di Bari Vecchia. The street’s character is enhanced as a sort of openair museum by placing along the way a series of sculptures and artistic flooring that make it possible in some areas to set up temporary installations.
Credits
DESIGN ARCHITECTS Tstudio – Guendalina Salimei, Arch. Marina De Marco
URBAN PLANNING Arch. Rosario Pavia con F. Contuzzi
MEP Ing. Antonio Violante, Ing. Raffaele Digiesi
LANDSCAPE DESIGN Arch. Giancarlo Fantilli
CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISION A. Toritto, Comune di Bari
CONTRACTOR De Marco Costruzioni
