Located along the northern border of the Albanian capital Tirana, close to the river, Tirana Riverside is the prject designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti together with SON-Group and conceived as a large urban regeneration project that favours a functional and social mixité and welcomes within it various cultures and backgrounds, in an accessible and self-sufficient district from the point of view of clean energy, water, food and all urban public services.
The Masterplan, planned to accommodate 12,000 people, is a 29-hectare green neighbourhood, equipped with all the technologies of a Smart City and able to guarantee the safeguards and health safety requirements necessary to face contemporary seismic and pandemic emergencies.
Tirana Riverside offers new housing solutions to residents and develops along a green and innovative central spine dedicated to soft mobility, on which commercial ground floors, access to residential buildings, sports and working spaces and numerous outdoor areas insist and emphasize total accessibility to all areas of the neighbourhood, including numerous services to the city, a school and a university centre.
Starting from the collaboration with local production and professional realities, in a precious process of sharing know-how, a main component of the project is that of public and domestic greenery, distributed in common areas, on vertical surfaces and on roofs with solar panels, considered as living spaces capable of hosting numerous plant species, areas dedicated to coworking and the delivery of goods, sports facilities and for leisure, hanging gardens and pedestrian bridges.
Tirana Riverside overlooks a river park dedicated to the community is a territorial project designed to host trees and inhabitants in equal numbers, with a total of 12 thousand plants belonging to more than one hundred different native species, while the fifteen hectares of green surfaces are divided into common gardens, agricultural and horticultural areas, with more than five kilometres of cycle paths.
The economic and social advantages of the massive presence of trees intended as an Urban Forest make Tirana Riverside a contemporary landscape that mixes nature and technology, to favour the welfare of citizens who live there temporarily or permanently.
