Learning from the Lama

2021
Team point of view
The need to regenerate Bitonto itself in the light of the challenges of the Anthropocene is possible through an enhancement of the functioning of its three main scopes: the urban scope, the agricultural scope, and the naturalistic scope of Lama Balice. The latter is the one whose potential currently is the least developed. The analysis of the natural mechanisms existing within the Lama and the study of its complex biology generate exchange models that, once implemented and replicated, could contribute to reinforcing the biodiversity with positive effects on environmental quality, urban liveability, and economic processes. The piazzas of Bitonto, Palombaio, and Mariotto would then become the physical places where these regenerative processes would take place on a human scale.

Jury point of view
The proposal is complete and integrates the open space project with a system that also involves the urban programs in progress. It presents an interesting insight in terms of territorial interpretation and identity of the area through the identification of three areas (urban / rural / natural) that integrate with each other. It manages to identify a common thread between the existing urban spaces that connects the centres of Palombaio and Mariotto. The Lama Balice becomes an opportunity to contaminate urban public spaces with the landscape.