The firm Alvisi Kirimoto has recently presented a feasibility study for the restoration of the Ex-Macrico area of Caserta, a project born from the desire of the Curia of Caserta – owner of the site – to activate a process of sustainable urban development, thanks to the collaboration between public, economic, social, scientific and civic actors.

The area originally housed the former military garrison Macrico – named for the MAgazzino Centrale RImessa mezzi COrazzati – covering an area of more than 324,000 square meters, bordered to the east by Corso Trieste, the city’s main street leading to the Royal Palace of Caserta. Given its urbanistically strategic location, just a 15-minute walk from the city center, the intervention represents for the city a nodal point between the Reggia, the historic center and the new expansion areas, a representative position for a potential new green lung.

In plan, the green infrastructure system is then held together by the Cartesian arrangement of the architectural design, largely salvaged from the existing. The demolition is planned only for the sheet metal buildings, used as tool storage and lacking historical-constructive value, while the recovery of the constrained masonry buildings is envisaged through punctual and well-calibrated interventions according to the individual artifacts. These buildings aspire to be self-sufficient from the energy point of view, through the creation of a renewable and supportive energy community.

Camp Laudato Si’ in Caserta will become not only a park, but also a museum of industrial archaeology, where it will be possible to reread the history of the place by walking among the old warehouses that have been recovered and refunctionalized.