Eco-smart technologies for the new relationship’s spaces

Where agricultural production has built the identity of places and the quality of the landscape, in a particular condition that sees a whole series of "environmental crimes" added to the damage caused by a growing out of control, experience new possible uses of the land to give back to the places their own original beauty means, in this research, the application of innovative technological systems for the recovery of the territory. The work involves the use of eco-smart technologies for urban farming and is directed to the rehabilitation of degraded urban areas in order to improve their environmental characteristics. In particular, we present a case study involving an area located in the town of Casal di Principe, district of Caserta, which is currently in a degradation and abandonment state. The proposed project consists in a semi-open structure characterized by the use of eco-smart systems for the indoor and outdoor vertical cultivation, for the improvement of the soil permeability and for the recovery and reuse of rainwater. This structure has several volumes including one, on two levels, used as a market that runs along the north-south axis of the area. The structure of the market is particularly innovative cause it provides, in its interior, also agricultural production carried out through systems for vertically growing. The exposure of these products, in addition, is characterized by interactive multimedia systems which allow to obtain ecological and environmental information.