Nodi di salubrità nella città collinare

The design experimentation in Naples hinges on the definition of a 13-kilometer cycle-pedestrian path that connects the Albergo dei Poveri to the Vele in Scampia. It is not a simple path conceived in all its parts as defined: in some cases, the path can be transformed into many, capable of involving places, spaces and elements of the city that are often not connected, forgotten, abandoned; in others, the path already exists and the project proposes its recovery by changing its role and meaning within a new system of connections. Overall, the new connection-path is intended as a large public space that includes different urban landscapes. Starting from via Foria, the route overlaps with via Tenore up to the area of the Complex of Santa Maria degli Angeli alle Croci and the former Miranda student residence; it continues past covered and open-air caves of exceptional beauty in vico dei Tronari and reaches the hospital complex of San Gennaro dei Poveri. From here the possibility to go up and reach Colli Aminei or to extend to the denser areas of the Sanità, reaching the complex of Santa Maria della Vita and then continue, skirting the former Convitto Pontano alla Conocchia, to enter the Scudillo Ravine and then reach the Colli Aminei metro station, which could be the entrance to San Rocco Ravine, a nature and wildlife reserve of considerable importance. From here on, the reference element of the route becomes metro line 1, with the subsequent stations of Frullone, Chiaiano and Piscinola-Scampia, up to the Vele area. It is not a design that is closed once and for all, but an open process, which can be carried out gradually, at different times, also taking into account the urban transformation programs and projects in progress, but which above all can be progressively expanded, starting from the idea that the whole city must set itself, even more in this phase of its history, the central objective of the care and wellbeing of citizens.