Common Convention - Harbour Authority of Genoa for technical-town-planning deepenings in sight of the realization of the Blueprint



Today the mayor of Genoa, Marco Doria, the extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority of the capital of Liguria, admiral Giovanni Pettorino, and Stefano Franciolini, president of the Spim, the society of the Municipality of Genoa which charged of the promotion of the real estate of the municipal administration, has signed a convention that has the scope to put into effect "in way coordinated" by Municipality, Authority Portuale and Spim "technical-town-planning deepenings" on the "areas comprised between Gadda Descent and Kennedy large square" "to the aim to share coherent solutions with the objectives of the Communal Town-planning Plan and of the new Portuale Town development plan". The objective is the realization of the Blueprint, I redesign of the waterfront harbour and city from the zone of the devised from architect Renzo Piano and introduced naval repairs in 2014 with the local institutions that they have made contest in order to adopt it ( on 6 October 2014).

Much ardor in order to receive it and to make it own that then it had carried the representatives of the institutions to perhaps neglect some implications that such project has under consideration on the enforced town-planning plans or for the transformation of the central part of the city, than appears for a good feature on the area interested from the Blueprint.

From then someone evidently one has wondered which can be the effects of the realization of the project of Renzo Piano. A large hand to free the area from not compatible presences with the Blueprint has given the dead women to it for consunzione of the Fair of Genoa, society of management of the participated genoese exhibition quarter from the local institutions that to the end of March of it have decided the mass in liquidation.

Meantime is being tried to remove other "cumbersome" presences. Initially it seemed that the final feature to East of the elevated road Aldo Moro, that it passes on the area of the Blueprint, had to remain so as it is. Now it seems destined to the demolition in order to carry the intense road traffic of the artery to quota zero. If now the elevated size visually and acoustic the city from the sea, a its lowering at sea level will cut it physically also more than already it they make the road to great sliding formed from Quadrio course and Aurelio Saffi course and the ancient below town-walls building.

An other presence appeared "perhaps incompatible" with the plan of the architect is the project for the realization of a street tunnel under the harbour area, project many times over evoked and as many times forgotten that now it seems instead reconcilable with the Blueprint: "integration/completion of Ancient Port - it is written in fact in the which signed convention today - coincides, for the side raises, with rearranges of the Fair and the naval repairs, advance understanding between Municipality of Genoa and Harbour Autorità to the aim to define the objective of long period of the reconversion for city uses of Gadda descent and Boccardo descent, within that also is directly interested by the project of the harbour tunnel sub".

Explaining in note reasons that they have induced Common, Authority Portuale and Spim to agree convention, in which confirmation who, "at the same time, the Common one is managing, of understanding with Spim becomes clear that "the coordination between harbour zone and zone of communal property is fundamental in order to guarantee coherence and feasibility to the design delineated and donated to the city by Renzo Piano", international the progettuale call for tender for the areas of communal property" and is specified moreover that "Common, Portuale Authority and Spim, based on the convention, will work entirety above all, but not exclusively, around to some of the main nodes town-planning: practicability of service to the district of the constructions and naval repairs; city practicability of connection between the areas of the Ancient Port and Kennedy Large square; possibility of realization of pedestrian distances cycle/of connection between the areas of the Ancient Port and Kennedy Large square; accommodation of the quay frontage in relation to the new indicated water channels in the Print Blue; accommodation of the watery mirror of the marina Duke of the Abruzzi/Which dropped Marconi; ricollocazione of the sport circles today situated in the spaces of Giano Pier/Which dropped Marconi/marina Duke of the Abruzzi, in the next docks the section exhibition, that is long the new water channels". Specific also that "they will be instituted deepening tables to which they will participate technical of the Harbour Authority and Spim".

In the convention the actions completed from the Municipality are recalled among other things, from the Harbour Authority and from the Spim and the will expressed from Liguria Region, Municipality and Harbour Authority is recalled, "to develop and to harmonize the industrial functions and city presents in the area of East of the port of Genoa". With regard to the town-planning instruments the convention report previewed how much from the PUC for the transformation district n. 20 "Kennedy Fair" and the scene indicated in the new Portuale Town development plan that acquires the "proposed ideas of development in the Blueprint".

"The signature of this convention of job - it has emphasized mayor Marco Doria - confirmation the will shared between various agencies to return in concrete terms realizable the Blueprint, resolving all the town-planning nodes. This distance and the spirit who is animating it are fundamental in order to create conditions favorable to the participation of investor for this great operation. Shortly the Municipality, in collaboration with Spim, will launch the international competition for the planning, within the lines of the Blueprint, the areas of communal property. We will not ask alone progettuali ideas - it has specified the mayor - but also plans for feasibility financial institution. And while we will be able to use, for the predisposition of the allocated areas 15 million from the government".

If two years ago he had been then the president of the Harbour Authority, Luigi Merlo, to confirm the support of the agency to the Blueprint, now is its substitute, extraordinary commissioner Pettorino, to restate the absence of perplexity of the agency being evidenced that "with the signature today another step is realized forward towards the realization of the great project of Renzo Piano. A coordination of all the technical-town-planning deepenings of the areas of respective competence, by Municipality and Harbour authority - the admiral has commented - finds in this convention the just indispensable moment of synthesis".

It seems just that the area of the naval repairs of the port of Genoa therefore will be confined on a island. Not that which not is of Sampierdarena planned by Renzo Piano in its original one Frescoes before for the waterfront genoese introduced ten years, in 2004 ( on 10 May 2004), but that which will be, plus neighbor but however separated by earth that lately is devised by the creative architect in order to accommodate that which defines the "factory of the port". An offshore factory, evidently.

Bruno Bellio