The Department of Architecture and Design of the Polytechnic of Turin has for some time now been engaged in a collaborative relationship with the administration of the city of Aosta, aimed at exploring strategic scenarios for the physical development of the city, with a particular focus on a series of transformation areas. The work began with a project for the urban regeneration of the Cogne district – the city’s historic working-class district – which enabled the city to obtain, through the MIT’s national PINQuA call for tenders, a €15M grant for the district’s transformation.
Subsequently, the focus shifted to the Dora district, a residential area to the east of the consolidated city, on which the project explorations conducted allowed the municipality to plan and systemise a series of operations concerning new school services and the redevelopment of some public spaces.
Following the two punctual experiences, the administration then asked the working group, together with FULL, to produce a strategic vision document on the future of the city, to support the PRGC Reconsideration process, which is currently being drafted.
The research work, which is currently in progress, no longer considers only a few transformation areas, but aims to provide the city with a new interpretation of the ongoing urban dynamics, capable of placing the individual transformation operations within a coherent strategic framework, which integrates explorations on a micro-urban scale on some specific places of attention, such as the ‘South Gate’ of the city, the Megalithic Area, and the sports complexes.
