ArchDaily publishes an in-depth report on the city of Tirana entitled Tirana Reimagined: Architectural Projects Transforming Albania’s Capital through Public Engagement, highlighting the international architectural and urban planning projects that are changing the face of the Albanian city, including Tirana 2030 by Stefano Boeri Architetti.
Tirana is undergoing a remarkable transformation fuelled by an ambitious vision of the future outlined also in the Tirana 2030 plan: a plan to reconquer the landscape which, starting from the image of the famous fresco Allegoria ed Effetti del Buono e del Cattivo Governo (Allegory and Effects of Good and Bad Government) by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, denotes the theme of the ‘kaleidoscopic city’ as a model for a new balance between city and nature.
The main strategy starts from the consideration of the limitation of land use as imperative; at the same time, the development of the city vertically, within defined limits and boundaries, allows the release of land areas within the densely built-up area.
The theme of recovering the natural dimension in Tirana’s urban environment is articulated in several operational tools: the green areas in the city are tripled through a multifaceted intervention, which envisages a continuous orbital forest system around the city, with two million trees, including parks and protected nature oases to preserve and nurture local biodiversity; new ecological corridors along the Lana, Tirana and Erzeni rivers; a green ring-road, the ‘4th Ring’, intended as a linear public space and mobility area, barycentric with respect to greater Tirana. The system thus generated also constitutes a true ecological corridor, capable of stimulating energy production through the use of renewable sources.
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