Renaturalization and post-mining land use / The Guardian Park

The former clay quarry is reinterpreted as the beating heart and functional hub of a broader territorial system, a place where landscapes, stories, and communities come together. Once a site of clay extraction, the area is transformed into an environment of care and regeneration, opening itself as a threshold for exploring and rediscovering the surrounding territory.  
From this core unfolds a network of thematic itineraries that invites visitors to traverse the landscape both physically and virtually. The routes, whether linear or dispersed, do more than guide movement within the area: they reveal the environmental, cultural, social, and landscape values layered within the territory. Each itinerary emerges from a careful territorial reading of the places, their identities, and the people who inhabit, care for, and transform them.
The aim of the project is to weave together natural and human-made values already present in the territory, creating a system of paths that finds its shared physical space for encounter and reinforcement within the former quarry area. Here, the landscape becomes a place of connection and collective experience.
Along the itineraries, strategic crossings generate nodes, spaces where something happens, where processes are made visible, stories are told, and the relationship between people and landscape is expressed. These moments are marked by the cube stations: architectural elements with a recognizable form, discreetly integrated into the context, acting as “custodians” of the park and as orientation points along the journey.

• DESIGN Arcoplan Studio Associato.....................................
• CLIENT Koro Srl
• IN COLLABORATION WITH Mauro Striuli, 3D Specialist / Valentina Camillo, Landscape Designer