Intermodal centre
The City of Iglesias identifies mobility and services as strategic objectives for its development in the medium and short-term. Its nodal location and easy connections with the adjacent areas led her to earn historically an absolutely central role in the area as a center of services, a role that only in recent years has gone weakening. The priority of the City is to regain this role and to overcome it becoming a center of innovation and experimentation.
In this perspective, the problem of mobility is important, and within this theme the construction of the intermodal center passenger plays a major role. The intermodal center aims to tackle and solve the problems of urban mobility and territorial relation to different scales.
The object of the intervention area is located in a major hub for the city of Iglesias, in fact, important roads converge here as well as the FS railway line. In the immediate vicinity are located the main administrative centers and places of interest in the city.
The urban block of intervention is deeply unresolved in his relationship than the city: there are architectural elements that characterize, are absent public spaces as well as the road system is not rationally organized.
The intermodal center is a complex system of elements clearly separated by function and interconnected in a rational manner in order to ensure its full functionality compared to the strategic objectives of the project. The central element of the project is essentially the connection spaces necessary interchange between modes; this connective makes it possible to connect in the best way the existing railway station, the new garage, the bus terminal to the rest of the city.
In this perspective, the design of the intermodal center stands as a tool for harmonization between the existing elements, often conflicting, and new functions in order to upgrade and new functions one of the central pieces of the urban system.
2nd Prize – Sardinia Region Landscape Award – 4th Edition – Category C
Client: Municipality of Iglesias
Area: 3.000 sqm
Cost: € 3.500.000
Project date: 2009
Construction: -
