Como World Garden - competition by invitation to design the Como waterfront

Photo © Laboratorio Permanente

Drawing © Laboratorio Permanente

A scheme represents the strategy; the current situation and the project one. Today: a longitudinal relationship between the waterfront and the lake; tomorrow: the lake and the lakeside promenade are connected by a transversal connection

Drawing © Laboratorio Permanente

Stedelijke ontwikkeling

Architecten: Laboratorio Permanente

Team: Nicola Russi, Angelica Sylos Labini, Sara Salvemini, Marco Corazza
Landscape: Serena Forti
Engineering: ANASTASI SA Ingegneria
Mobility: Mobility In Chain Srl
Budget: Sylos Labini Ingegneri Associati

Como, Italy, 2009

The world famous Como waterfront has been designed as a new contemporary garden, an opportunity for citizens to experience nature from an aesthetic and emotional point of view. From the city, our eyes are free to roam until the horizon, following the curves of the garden’s elements. A rhythm set by the progressive use of materials, measures, and shapes that are different one from the other, and which distinguishes both the architectural and the garden projects, bringing that complexity typical of a mansion’s garden to the scale of a whole city.