URBAN THRESHOLDS / “Port and Passetto,” urban design competition

Urban Thresholds envisions public space as a shared infrastructure connecting the ancient city and the early twentieth-century fabric.

The main axis becomes an urban and symbolic ground for multiple publics, hosting pedestrian zones, green corridors, and surfaces of reused water. Preserving existing trees and expanding the green structure anchor the project ecologically and culturally.

Sustainability is understood not only as environmental performance but as shared stewardship. The project relies on the engagement of a wider community through events, art installations, and new forms of local management, including low-rent kiosks and shared maintenance practices.

Rather than fixing space, the project creates a porous urban threshold—an active field of relations between landscape, history, and collective life.

Team: Riccardo Vannucci, Giuseppina Forte, Francesco Salvolini, Frauke Petretto, Cecilia Zeta