绿色织梦 · 普拉托纺织城公园

Place: Prato, ItalyClient: Municipality of PratoArchitect: Alvisi KirimotoStatus: Park design competition. ShortlistedDate: 2016Size: 3.3haWith the design for the new Textile-City-Park we want to create a productive landscape that invites all inhabitants and visitors to learn about making textile and about how many plants (and animals) provide the ingredients of producing textile fibers and natural dye. Each new plant in the park will have some relation with textile making. The ingredients can be explained and studied but also used during workshops and classes that will take place in the park and in several pavilions and workspaces. Knowledge and products can be exchanged during regular textile markets, festivals and fairs. These events combine crafts, arts, leisure and commerce to attract all levels of Prato’s community.Apart from this specific theme the TextileCityPark offers a diversity of green, spaces and facilities as the best city parks. The plants that provide ingredients for textiles also have esthetic qualities and some of them can also be used for medicinal purposes or as food. The park spaces combined with several pavilions offer a divers and inclusive program like play, sports, gardening, community meeting, cooking, eating but also cultural events like art exhibitions, theatre performances, film screenings and concerts.The design for the TextileCityPark is carefully planned and detailed but most of all it is a flexible strategy that allows for adjustments in the process but also in the future use: Tree lines can be closer or wider apart with more or less diversity in species; the central open space can be bigger or smaller with a taller or a lesser hill; pavilions can be used for all different purposes and can be internally intensified.Team Inside Outside: Petra Blaisse with Jana Crepon, Mikel Orbegozo, Chiara Maffezzoni