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Published by THE PLAN Editions in Italian, with English on the facing page, the book tells the story of the design for the new Maritime Station at Molo Beverello in Naples, a fundamental building block for a complete reconfiguration of the city’s waterfront.
“This new gateway to the city combines efficiency, beauty, and local identity. The architecture was conceived to serve people, the landscape, and memories of the city.”
From the introduction to the book, by Fabrizio Capolei
Spanning six chapters in length, the book describes not just the new building’s features but the overarching Filtering Line design. Winner of a competition dating back to 2004, the design was developed by a Design Consortium of EBSG architectes, 3C+t Capolei Cavalli Architetti Associati, Tstudio, and architects Massacesi, Pavia, Di Venosa and Romani. The Filtering Line was conceived to reunite Naples with its port, reconnecting land and water to rebuild a long-lost link.
Bearing this in mind, the Beverello Terminal is a strategic building whose linear, semi-underground architectural layout offers not just a place to welcome arrivals and await departure, but a high-quality public space that attracts passengers departing for the Gulf Islands, and tourists and visitors seeking a place to stroll along the waterfront.
“ [...] the generating element of the Stazione Marittima project is a tectonic movement that lifts the urban plane between Molo Beverello and Via Acton, shaping a panoramic pedestrian route, a promenade paysagère overlooking the port and the sea, with the building and all its functions set below this elevated pathway. This ground-level motion separates flows of travelers from residents and tourists, linking in to the road network and quay via a system of sloping planes that serve as roofing and facade, ramps and stairways, in some areas revealing pockets of greenery.”
Quoted from Fabrizio and Pierfrancesco Capolei
The book is enriched by a Valerio Paolo Mosco essay about the project. Mosco’s An Un-volumetric Architecture in the Port of Naples reveals how the work succeeded in creating relationships with the complex surrounding urban system through “[...]a special sense of measure and decorum.”
The Beverello Terminal is the first stage of Naples Waterfront redevelopment. Conceived by a design team led by the 3c+t Capolei Cavalli Architetti Associati firm, the project set out to reconnect the urban dimension of Naples with the city’s po... Read More
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