Antonio Nanu: MetroCampania NordEst

The project addresses the five Metro stops along the new line leading to Capodichino from Piscinola-Scampia. The first intervention encompasses work on the Scampia station proper and on the surrounding urban areas. Works proposed for the four successive stops and respective underground stations deal with the exterior areas adjacent to the exits.

Comprehensively the projects cover an area of more than 14 hectares, and extend for a distance of approximately four kilometers covering the neighborhoods to the northeast of the city of Scampia: Piscinola, Miano and Secondigliano.

The importance of the project, besides its intrinsic value as transportation, lies especially in its uniformity along the enitire railway line and the value of its integration into the railway as a whole. Due to its size and its cohesiveness, the project becomes one of transformation and regeneration of a large part of the city.

This transformation is implicit in the goal of unification in that the proposal would remove the barrier that had been created by the track beds of the former Alifana railroad, under which, the new metro line runs. This barrier has mutilated that stretch of the city - the the bricked-up buildings are a concrete symbol - mending the urban plan.
The goal of re-qualification, then, is achieved through actions taken on a variety scales. The project calls for furnishing, lighting, paving, planting and equipping areas which are currently completely abandoned and degraded, thus giving them back to the city, and to urban decorum, during this major transformation of values which is the birth of a new metro line. It is a unified project on an urban scale that combines the demands of mobility with those of decorum, functionality and city planning.

These new works of infrastructure were intended as a driving force behind the urban transformation. A goal that addressed an area, including the suburbs to the north-east of Naples, not only particularly run-down but also literally, and sadly, besieged by social problems. The aspect that gives greater value to the Piscinola / Capodichino project, however, is the attempt to add quality to the outlying parts of the town that have yet to be fully consolidated. It is precisely the absence of urban planning here that render these urban places void of any sense of identity or function, in terms of quality of life.

Metro line Capodichino – Aversa, Tratta Piscinola/Scampia – Capodichino, e Line 1 Metropolitana di Napoli
Architectural project: arch. Antonio Nanu
Structure: STIPE s.p.a.
Technical, HVAC: Tecnosistem s.p.a., ANSALDO TRASPORTI Sistemi Ferroviari s.p.a.