Waterpark

Year: 2021

Location: Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy

Typology: Urban design ecological disconnection flood risk turning risk into biocorridors Analysis

Waterpark is a large scale project in the Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia regions, which focuses on biodiversity and flood issues in the two regions, looking for causes and possible solutions. During the research it emerged that there is a relationship between ecological disconnection and flood risk. They both can be riconducted to the same cause: a bad land and water management by human side. The project proposes interscale solutions which aim to reduce the risk of flooding and at the same time to increase the biodiversity hotspots and corridors. The main actions taken are three: increasing wetlands along the coast to renaturalise a landscape strongly transformed by human; creating new long corridors along natural connectors, as rivers, and artificial ones, like highways and railways, tuning those into large scale green infrastructure; switching to more ecological forms of agriculture like agroforestry in order to decrease biodiversity loss and water management problems.