Lo stadio Adriatico di Luigi Piccinato: Tutela e rigenerazione urbana

The paper focuses on an inappropriate transformation plan that compromises the Adriatico stadium, designed in Pescara in the second post-war period by Luigi Piccinato on which a cultural debate was developed with the formulation of urban regeneration proposals during the 2017 Summer School organized by the Department of Architecture of Pescara. In 2015 the contrasting matter of the modernization of the Adriatico stadium started involving the previous building by a mega multi-purpose structure, distorting its historical-compositional values and its relationship with the D'Annunzio pinewood. As an alternative, the safeguard and the development of the stadium were proposed by the activation of urban relations, new connections with the nearby university, the neighboring sports facilities, the pinewood and the small theatres inside it. The projectual proposals are based on the analytical new interpretation of the actual state of the stadium with an important architecture role, starting from the Piccinato project and examining the continuing overlaps and possible new interventions preserving the original image of this architecture. In a city of only residential buildings, such as Pescara, the exceptional presence of the monumental stadium, because of its role and dimension, should be reinterpreted for regeneration of the entire urban area, with development from the sea to the university. The eventual and planned construction of a new stadium would permit Piccinato's artifact to avoid the actual conditions of security that creates a form of urban distance: the old stadium would go back for urban uses, smaller and not competitive teams.The university settlement in Viale Pindaro would measure the urban scale of new interventions and could constitute the responsible direction of the entire operation.