Parco dell’Unità d’Italia, The Plan Award 2017

2017 · Honourable mention, Landscape

Honourable mention among future projects, in the landscape category. It is a pedagogical and sensory park for young people, promoted in Spinea by the Lions Club and the municipal administration: beds of colours and scents, aromatic plants, an amphitheatre in the greenery, water. The Child Garden Therapy is a journey into nature to be observed, listened to, smelled and touched, open to those with motor disabilities too.

The young people are not merely its beneficiaries: the youth council works with the designers in a workshop on recycling materials, on the games of old and on the park’s signage.

The Plan Award is the international prize of The Plan magazine for architecture, design and urban planning. It sets completed works and future projects side by side, divided into categories: for each one the jury names a winner and, when it sees fit, one or more honourable mentions. From 2015 to 2019 the practice brought its projects to every edition: six projects in five years, twice shortlisted and one honourable mention.