"Bergamo: The city of the future". Porta Sud by Francisco Mangado

The Spanish architect Francisco Mangado has been commissioned to carry out the project for the regeneration and redevelopment of the areas of the Bergamo railway station called Porta Sud. The intervention will connect the part of the city to the south of the railway axis with the center, unifying Bergamo. The Master Plan has already been presented to the city of Bergamo.

Rendering of the Campus scolastic. Porta Sud by Francisco Mangado.

The Francisco Mangado project will have an improvement of the road system to integrate more effective connections and improve the areas creating high quality urban environments. The area occupied by the intervention will be divided into two areas and will house a wide variety of functions, such as transport infrastructures combined with residential or tertiary areas.

Description of project by Francisco Mangado

The project proposed by Francisco Mangado and the international and multidisciplinary team appointed by Vitali spa contemplates the remodeling and improvement of a vast urban area of the city of Bergamo, which extends along the railway axis and the urban railway station.

The intervention of the project will consider as a unitary element the overcoming of the barrier of the railway axis (today the dividing element of the city) and the reconnection of the part of the city to the south of the railway axis with the "Piaceninian" center through a large park. The road system will be improved and integrated through the creation of more effective and faster connections between the various transport systems present and the architectural design, dividing and distributing the functional lots and destinations in an integrated manner to improve the areas, creating urban environments of high quality.

The area covered by the intervention is divided into two areas: the intermodal area which is 274 thousand square meters, and the industrial land areas north of 174 thousand, out of a total of 450 thousand square meters.

About this large proposed park the program contemplates a variety of functions, combining transport and mobility infrastructures, such as the new intermodal, with residential, tertiary, cultural areas ..., and strengthening at the same time the health and school infrastructures already present in the area.

The Master Plan of Porta Sud was presented to the city of Bergamo last Thursday, May 10, accompanied by an exhibition at the Palacio de la Ragione.

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Rendering of the Campus. Porta Sud by Francisco Mangado.

Rendering of the Faculty. Porta Sud by Francisco Mangado.

Rendering of the Square. Porta Sud by Francisco Mangado.

Rendering of the Station. Porta Sud by Francisco Mangado.

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FRANCISCO MANGADO

Francisco Mangado, (Navarra, 1957), is an architect from the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra, where he has been a professor since 1982. He has been a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at the Yale University, visiting professor at the EPF Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Baird and Gensler guest professor at Cornell University and visiting professor at the Polytechnic of Milan.

From his works they emphasize the Palace of Congresses and Auditorium of Pamplona "Baluarte" (2003), the Field of Soccer of Palencia (2006), the Municipal Center of Exhibitions and Congresses of Ávila (2009), the Museum of Archeology of Vitoria (2009 ), the Spanish Pavilion for the Zaragoza International Exhibition (2008), the BBAA Museum of Asturias in Oviedo (2015) and the recently inaugurated Palau de Congresos de Palma de Mallorca (2016) and the New Venue Building of Norvento Enerxia in Lugo (2017). Currently he develops his activity in several countries.

Thanks to this professional work he has received, among others, the Andrea Palladio Architecture Award, the Architecture FAD, the CEOE prize, the Construmat Architecture Award, the Fernando García Mercadal Architecture Prize, the Asturian Architecture Prize, the "Giancarlo Ius Gold Medal" awarded by the International Union of Architects, the Copper in Architecture Award, the RIBA EU Award, the Spanish Architecture Award 2009 and the RIBA for International Excellence, among others.

In 2011 he was named "International Fellow" of the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) and in 2013 honorary member of the AIA (American Institute of Architects). In November 2016, the Berlin Academy of Arts grants Francisco Mangado the Berlin Art Prize-Architecture Prize 2017 in recognition of his work.

In 2008 he founded the Architecture and Society Foundation, which works to favor the interaction of architecture with other disciplines of creation, thought and economy, which has received the CSCAE gold medal (Higher Council of Architects of Spain) 2015

In July 2015 he was appointed General Coordinator of Biennials and under his coordination was awarded to the Spanish Pavilion the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennial in May 2016.