REQUALIFICATION OF THE AREAS BARILLA AND EX - ERIDANIA IN PARMA

Between the end of the nineties and the beginning of the new millennium, the urban transformation launched upon public-private initiative in the area that in the past housed the historical factories of the Barilla group and an Eridania sugar refinery, integrated over the years in the urban centre of the city of Parma, has proved to be one of the most significant projects on a nationwide scale.

In its complexity the intervention envisaged the requalification of areas and, based on the design of the famous Genoan architect Renzo Piano, the realization of a new auditorium and a city park nearby, throughout the transformation of the former sugar refinery and the entire surrounding area, as well as through construction of a new city nucleus on the relicts of old Barilla plants, consisting of luxury residences, a hotel, a shopping mall, a cinema complex, an
international cuisine centre of Barilla and all the surrounding parking lots above and below the ground level.

SGI Studio Galli Ingegneria SpA took part in the project by designing the infrastructural and urban furnishing works on behalf of public and private organizations. These works included the internal roads, including car parks, pedestrian precincts and gardens, with particular regard to the city park nearby the auditorium and the Barilla centre square and all the technological  systems, i.e. MV and LV electrical networks, natural gas and water supply systems, telephone and data networks, sewerage network and stormwater collection and drainage system with final pumping into the joint canals, irrigation and public lighting systems.

The project was presented in the February 2002 edition of the international architecture magazine “Abitare”.