New urban models in the vesuvian Sarno plain

This PRIN research has been focused on the principles for the development of the Sarno plain structure, the urbanized countryside in the vesuvian area beyond Pompei. In order to take up an efficient strategy avoiding sprawl and soil cementing in the periurban areas, we propose to compact new buildings in a discontinuous system of small multifunction clusters, following the criterion “low rise – high density”. The concept is a green extended city, built up by urban parts with residential and productive structures and by public utilities separated by rural areas and parks. The discontinuity of urban parts alternating with agricultural plots allows that green and unbuilded areas avoid the building saturation of span among the detached cities. The natural infrastructure of Sarno river should become an important element to order the next plans for the plain, increasing the multifold relationships among rural tradition and modern settlements. The urban projects follow different directions: the first one longitudinal direction will regenerate the riverbed, as the main “locus” plot of collective utilities (detached resorts, sporting utilities, vegetablegardens with green houses etc.). These structures are integrated in parks and rural areas and connected by a continuous ribbon-road running along the river, recovering the landscape. The second ones are crossing projects adopted where the river cut the territory in the east-west direction: the solutions design new visual and functional connections between the Sarno utilities, the previous settlements and new residential clusters.