A city within the city

The project’s area is a big void of 60 hectares close to the Cagliari’s historical centre and to the main institutional city’s. Moreover the area’s borders are marked by big transportation axes which connect the city with the rest of the island including the presence of the airport, the harbour, the rail’s and the bus’s stations.Working on the borders and improving them potentiality with new structures the urban strategy, considering the strong role of the University of Cagliari inside the city, move to build a city within the city. A new pole which can provide to a directcooperation between the city and the university.In here an internal infrastructure connects different little districts, which work in different ambit. This internal light rail goes from the two main doors of the new city, the Park&Join connected to the highway, and the new public transportations station.

 

Park & Join’s

The Park&Join’s target is to create a huge public hybrid building, 120X60X30m, born as the fusion of a park&ride and a shopping mall, which configure an immediate link between private and public transportation fulfilling the base needs imposed by the chaotic society cancelling the travel time between the services. Therefore starting from the park and ride type the building takes shape from few different elements: the parking, the car’s and pedestrian’s circulations, the services’ volumes and obviously the structure. The Park&Join, covered by a continuous skin, is divided in two different blocks  by a full height hall occupied by four elevators and crossed by the pedestrian’s connections between station,storage, market, shops, relax area, pub, restaurant and disco.