Livorno città d’acqua e di cultura. Riqualificazione e recupero dell’area del Forte San Pietro d’Alcantara e del Depuratore Rivellino.

The project addresses the topic of reclassifying an urban area of the city of Livorno caracterised by the presence of the Forte San Pietro and the Rivellino di San Marco built at the end of the 17th century to complete Livorno’s northern defensive front protecting the residential quarter of La Venezia. In particular, Forte San Pietro, constructed on the orders of Governor Dal Borro according to the designs of the architect, Baldi, surrounded on one side by the sea and on the other by the Fosso Reale, it was the site of the public slaughterhouse (which was in operation until 1996) from 1889 and this saved it from demolition in the following years, ensuring links with the nearby San Marco’s station and free land for the city’s expansion. This transformed the Rivellino, which was the object of a residential development plan in the early 1800s and the location of the city’s sewage treatment plant. The project area is located in the northwest of the municipal region of Livorno and is configured as a passage area, in which the city environment abruptly changes from the industrial port to the urban and where traces of the ancient fortifications are evident (in addition to Forte San Pietro there are the constituent parts of the Lorenesi city walls) and where a system of canals and cellars is testimony to this particular area of the city’s characteristic special relationship with water. The study was initially focused on the analysis (historical, functional and regulatory) of the regional context so that the characteristic elements of the area being studied were clear and this enabled the objectives to be pursued in the masterplan to be identified.