The trees on the avenues

The graphic work is a useful reference for the representation of various tree species that, due to their natural characteristics, guarantee an adequate environmental and formal response in relation to the arrangement, typology and size. The single tree species, arranged in a row or in a group, is considered an architectural element with its own façade that, depending on its specific arrangement, can take on different formal values. These potentials offered by greenery guarantee, depending on the situation considered, a closing effect (visual screening or windbreak), perspective openings, directionality, geometric centrality, etc.

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The reference colours of the species are associated with the plan “Green as a structure”

Degree thesis by Cicalini Marina and Perissi Federica

Faculty of Architecture Valle Giulia – Sapienza University of Rome
Speaker: Prof. Arch. Achille Maria Ippolito
E mail: marina.cicalini@gmail.com
federicaperissi.perissi@gmail.com  


“DNA Linear park: Design of the linear park along the FM-3 railway line from Balduina to San Pietro”

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Thesis by Cicalini Marina and Perissi Federica

Thesis by Simone Catalani

Faculty of Architecture Valle Giulia – Sapienza University of Rome

Speaker: Prof. Arch. Achille Maria Ippolito
Co-Supervisor: PhD Student Laura Alessi
E mail: simone.catalani@me.com

Redevelopment of the Monte Mario Linear Park: The RED-Line Park

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We publish the interesting proposal “Valtiberina Project”, an intervention by environmental mitigation.

Premise

The international route of the European road E45, which winds for 4920 km from the Sicilian city of Gela to the south and the Norwegian city of Karesuvanto to the north, leaving a permanent perceptive mark on the territory. The road that from the municipality of Umbertide develops through the municipalities of Città di Castello and Sansepolcro up to the municipality of Pieve Santo Stefano crosses valley bottoms with a predominantly flat configuration, skirting rural panoramas of undoubted landscape interest.
The wound inflicted on the territory appears evident as a deep furrow between the green surfaces of the Umbrian-Tuscan countryside, caused by the total absence over the years of the planning of specific environmental legislation.

There are three main negative aspects of the current system:

• Inadequacy of the landscape insertion which is expressed in a total lack of valorisation of the urbanisations and the territorial peculiarities present;
• Air pollution: the heavy traffic on the major arterial road examined produces negative effects on air quality, which are evident up to a distance of 50-120 metres from the edge of the road.
• Noise pollution: a further element of degradation of the territory with evident repercussions on the populations adjacent to the infrastructure route and on the local fauna complex. The average sound pressure category found today on the route ranges between 55 and 60 dB

INTERVENTION HYPOTHESIS:
To make the weight of a structure like the E45 sustainable, which has a heavy impact on the surrounding territory, mitigation interventions are necessary through the use of greenery as a common language for the correct landscape insertion of the linear infrastructure and the improvement of both noise and air pollution.

HOW?

• Planting in the buffer zones adjacent to the road layout, starting from a minimum distance of 6 m (Regulation for the implementation of Presidential Decree 610/96)
• Tree groupings to eliminate the distance between the wooded areas interrupted by the original layout of the road
• Use of tree belts in correspondence with residential presences bordering the carriageway

BENEFITS

• Reduction of mini hydrogeological disasters resulting from the leaching of the soil from the lateral slopes and improvement of traffic noise pollution
• Windbreak effect and improvement of air quality by absorbing pollutants
• The species that can be used for this type of environmental mitigation are mainly attributable to the families of the genus quercus, tilia, fraxinus, populus, morus which can be easily composed in bands and/or rows and do not grow particularly vigorously so as to avoid frequent pruning.

Source: http://www.progettovaltiberina.it