Sustainable Mediterranean Construction

AS GREY INFRASTRUCTURE TURNS GREEN Along the Padua-Venice waterway

Authors  

Luigi Stendardo, Luigi Siviero

Keywords: 

landscape design, green infrastructure, infrastructural wreck, waterway, idrovia Padova-Venezia

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Abstract

The landscape of the Po Valley features a delicate hydraulic balance, achieved through the construction of works that have kept safe several settlements through time, though not preventing some dramatic floods. Canals, dams, sluices, and riverbanks compose a widespread and peculiar infrastructural landscape, which constantly reminds us of the careful, meticulous, and tenacious effort of transformation and management of the land, which has been necessary for urban, agricultural and industrial development.
In the 1970s just about 11 out of the 27 planned km of the waterway Padua-Venice were actually built, i.e. the starting and final stretches located respectively in the industrial district of Padua and in the cargo port of Venice. This paper deals with design scenarios turning this abandoned waterway into green infrastructure that works both as safety device and as landmark as well as a formal and spatial device capable of re-composing a large number of scattered artefacts while re-designing landscape.

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SMC N.12 2020

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