The Social Hub Roma (San Lorenzo) will host an urban bio-architecture project that is extremely innovative for the capital and the hotel sector, and is based on a firm ethical and ecological code.
With an investment of 1.1 million euro, the area will be populated by over 300 trees on over 10,000 permeable square metres.
The design, conceived by renowned Italian botanist and landscape architect Antonio Perazzi, is intended to integrate into the historic former Customs House district and promote urban biodiversity, simplifying the elements to make them versatile and functional through an ecological approach.
An example of this is the tracks of the old Roma Termini junction, on the site of which a dryland garden inspired by railway flora finds a new location, capable of restoring dignity and beauty while respecting its memory.
Quality and sustainability come together in a landscape project that will reduce soil consumption to a minimum, encouraging draining or semi-draining surfaces and trying to conserve as much as possible of the excavated earth generated by the creation of the new, as well as by reclamation.
To this end, hillocks have been created to mitigate noise pollution, on which plants with the greatest capacity to compensate CO2, such as bamboos, will be planted.
