Location: Collegno, Turin, Italy
Size: 6.3 acres
Type: Public Park
Award: First Prize
Year: 2026 - Present
The proposal transforms an underused park into a living framework of mutual care. By restoring soil, water, habitat, and the existing tree canopy, the landscape becomes a place where people can cultivate, reflect, gather, and reconnect. Community stewardship heals the land, while the renewed landscape supports individual and collective well-being.
Along the park’s edges, rain gardens, pollinator gardens, and stewardship gardens invite people to actively care for the land through planting, learning, and cultivation—turning ecological repair into an act of personal and collective healing.
Beneath the mature existing canopy, the character of different tree groups already defines intimate rooms within the otherwise open park. With minimal, low-impact interventions, these shaded spaces become quiet places to pause, read, listen, reflect, or simply be still. Together, these experiences allow the park to shift naturally between solitude and encounter, everyday life and collective celebration.
Healing unfolds through a sequence of garden rooms, each offering a different rhythm of care, retreat, and connection.
At the park’s open civic heart, modular red concrete piers form an adaptable social landscape—supporting everyday gatherings and picnics, transforming into communal tables, or expanding into a stage for performances and larger community events.
Develop repeatable paving, furnishing, planting, and shade modules that can be fabricated efficiently and installed in phases.
MODULAR + REPEATABLE
RECLAIMED + NATURAL
Use locally sourced and reclaimed materials to reduce embodied carbon, support regional craft, and give the garden a familiar material identity.
