The team of Uros Novakovic and Nevena Radojevic have shared with us their proposal for a Urban Design Contest in Florence, Italy which focuses specifically on the development of Santa Maria Novella Square. Additional images and a project description after the break.
The present square is more an obstacle to the passengers who cross it from the rail-station to the city center and vice versa. The main axis is closed, so new ways crossing the existing square have been made by the people to cross faster the big open space. Subways are uninviting so many people walk true the streets and across the roundabout creating dangerous situations between people and cars. For this reasons in the project the roundabout is eliminated and the street crosses are less possible to isolate pedestrian ways from the driveway. The same reason moves the bus stops at the back near Pizza Adua and the taxi stop moves on the side of the railway station creating a huge pedestrian space not crossed by any driveway.
