Healing Rimini
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Would you like to live in a healthier, modern and energy independent city, that provides safe and clean place with less traffic and other pollutants, that negatively impact our lives? Here we present our solution Healing Rimini, a friendly place for local people, tourists and local wildlife with lots of green infrastructure and natural habitats. We try to prevent floods, heat waves and other natural effects, with help of sustainable development goals in our concept, so called Healing unit.
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Our proposed concept is based on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (2022). We have analysed and scored them based on given Rimini area. Furthermore, we took a closer look at the five lowest scored goals: 7- Affordable and clean energy, 9-Industry, innovation and infrastructure, 13-Climate action, 14-Life below water, 15-Life on land. Rimini’s main problems, including low energy independence, traffic congestions and accidents, water, air, thermal and noise pollution and global changes (floods and heat islands) were estimated. These indicators are presented in bright and dark future analyses.
To avoid the dark future and aim for the bright one, we propose some small spatial solutions and adaptations, many of which are gathered in the so-called ‘Healing unit’. It consists of green and water infrastructure, sustainable energy production and transport infrastructure. The city of Rimini is then thoughtfully divided into seven smaller parts, where ‘Healing units’ are placed. The main one is placed on the present airport site and represents the healing heart of Rimini. All our solutions are nature-based, that provide benefits and fight problems for both biodiversity and human well-being. It is also a sustainable management, which provide social, economic and environmental benefits, fighting problems from the past and building resilience for the future.
The healing concept aims to promote social interaction, protects valuable cultural heritage, raises awareness, increases biodiversity, sustainability, resilience and independence of Rimini. Therefore, Rimini becomes a healthy environment for all.
Key objectives for sustainability
Basis of our project are Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that are evaluated trough a review of databases (Istat, Statista, Adminstat, ect.). The most critical SDG were used and implemented in our project and are the fundamentals of our idea/concept. We create Healing unit which presents environmental sustainability idea. In each Healing unit there are solar panels composed with park and ride system (transportation) and bioretention ponds. With this cell we try to unite solar energy, infrastructure, climate action and life on land as one system that is operating in coexistence.
Key objectives for aesthetics and quality
Our solution is fighting against climate changes which we already feel today and we will feel in the future. Our solutions are placed for the chosen city, in this case Rimini, but they are flexible and can be applied anywhere. Green systems have a positive impact on the city, because of the pleasant atmosphere they give to the residents and simultaneously they create an environment for habitats. Besides the aesthetic role they are also functional, because they enable air and water cleaning with chosen plant species, which is the main concept of the project. With green and wise infrastructure we connect people, aesthetically embellish the city and at the same time we are solving natural catastrophes, which are going to appear more frequently in the future.
Key objectives for inclusion
City of Rimini is currently very touristic city, which provides many services for tourist and lacks some for local people. The trend of turistification is growing strongly every year, so we wanted to replan the city in a way for helping the local community. That is how both local people and visitors can have good and equal experience of the city. We took measures in different fields: accessible and affordable transportation and energy, local food production, green and blue infrastructure implemented for fighting global changes. All solutions are blending throughout whole city, revitalizing degraded areas and connecting communities.
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Innovative character
Every of our solutions fights more than one problem, regarding city of Rimini. They are connecting environment, society and economy. They were picked out to fight global changes and problems that are impacting everyone around the globe, so they can be easily used in other places, where communities face similar problems.
City of Rimini is already doing measures to fight different problems. With our upgraded concept, the city would become great example for others.
