Genoa, Renzo Piano, I fresco it, blueprint and the dance of the naval repairs



The invitation is not to call frescoes it. From its point of view now that design is comparable to a first draft, to a brushstroke of first jet and complex outcome of a careful study does not have more nothing of the pictorial technique from which it had taken the name.

What it had introduced ten years ago, after to have sent in the field own collaborators in order to assess the exact number of palms and other trees to insert in the project - as had then puntigliosamente specified - today for Renzo Piano represents only an outline of maximum of the waterfront genoese.

Nothing to that to see yesterday with the proposed new introduced other, limited to a single portion of port. The suggestion is to call it blueprint, that is a progettuale model more advanced than a sketch, of a sketch. This time - it has announced the architect - it is a real "executive document".

Saturday to Saint George Palace, center of the Harbour Authority of Genoa, Renzo Piano, the first citizen of the capital of Liguria, Marco Doria, the president of the Liguria Region, Claudio Burlando, and the president of the harbour agency, Luigi Merlo, has commented and illustrated the new job of the planner who - the mayor has emphasized - is realized on the base of an initiative that she has seen with the three agencies.

To ten years from the presentation of I fresco it of the future of the port of Genoa elaborated from the study of Renzo Piano ( on May 25, 2004, 28 14 July 2005 and February 2006), the architect has proposed a new project for the area more oriental of the port of Genoa, where they have center society of construction and naval repair let alone diportistiche activities and sportswomen, that he borders with the exhibition quarter.

The blueprint it is for mayor of Genoa "a distance start" in order to redesign the front sea from the area of the naval repairs of the port. According to Marco Doria, the proposed new of Plan is coherent with the purposes repeatedly indicated by the municipal administration: to consolidate and to strengthen the field of the naval repairs, to characterize the city regaining its I put forward on the port and the sea, to more give again overhong to the Nautical Hall and the nautical one through a second thought of the not used spaces from Fair than Genoa.

For Doria, the new progettuale design of Renzo Piano makes own the indications of the municipal administration that does not want some additional volumetry regarding those existing, but rather the discouragement of the buildings not more usable and the recovery of the same volumetries for mixed functions. The all safeguarding feature of elevated road that runs between the area of the naval repairs and the city (than even within the next few years Renzo Piano will finally characterize which one of the greatest obstacles to ravvicinameno of the city and its inhabitants to the sea).

If the original one I fresco of the architect previewed the creation of a island of the naval repairs, with the realization of a channel of connection between the area of Descent of the Graces and the Marina Duke of the Abruzzi, with blueprint also the great part of the current exhibition quarter would end on another island thanks to the extension until the Palasport of the channel, wide from 20 to 80 meters and realized after the elimination of 48 thousand cubic metres of buildings with the discouragement of pavilion C of the Fair and former Palazzo Nira. Al channel would be placed side by side a walk of two kilometers in order to join the area of the Ancient Port with that of the River mouth.

Doria has emphasized that with the new proposed Slowly it wants to bring back the water under the Wall of Malapaga. "This time - the same architect has confirmed - it is the water that wins on the concrete".

The mayor has evidenced that the blueprint he offers to the section of the naval repairs the necessary spaces to its development, for example with the increase of the fourth dry dock. The Italian Yacht club would maintain the own current center historical, even if its pier would be realized in the new dock previewed to the River mouth, where is the outlet to sea of the Bisagno torrent and where the other nautical and sport circles would be replaced also. Around the reorganized exhibition area watery mirrors and piers for the nautical one would be realized, than today it needs areas to sea rather than of exhibition spaces to earth. The proposal of Plan previews also, which first urgent participation, the realization of the new Tower pilots of the port, high 70 meters, on the tip of the dam of the exhibition dock.

About figures it has been spoken little, if in order not to remember that - as has said Doria - we are not more in the ‘92 when the State took part in order to finance the transformation of the area of the Ancient Port while today the money of private investor is indispensable. For the participations in port, according to Merlon, they would want 120-140 million euros to us. In order to transform the blueprint in reality years would be necessary 10-15.

All this unless meantime the official or unofficial town-planning instruments, in a ballet without end, do not characterize different solutions, even been left over newly from the genoese architect.

Renzo Piano makes to think to Madonna. Nothing of blasphemer, for heaven's sake. Al beyond convincement that everyone of we can have on the talent of the famous architect and the most famous singer in the respective activity ranges, this that sure joins them - besides the artistic impulse that for someone it generates it is the architecture that music - is the immense entrepreneurial ability in putting to yields their attitudes.

Archistar and rockstar.

To dance, as always, they are the companies and the workers of the genoese navalmeccanico section. Today they are here, tomorrow in the area of Sestri West, the day after on a island, then on a peninsula and still on a island for being therefore relegated - who can preview it - on an offshore platform or, better, on a barge so as to be able to go here where there is the job. Still they do not know if in future in order to reach the place of work they will have to use the car, the life raft, or to make a jump.

These enterprises and their staff are invited to the festivity, but already some of they, perceiving not to be appreciate, have left the room. Little have seen them to exit. All the others of are not even shrewed, dazed as are from music to ball.

P P P Pu Puc! Pot! Ptc! Prg! Prp! Let's rock!

Bruno Bellio