Phoenix

Mati was the protagonist of the 2018 wildfires in Attica, with fatal consequences. One of the main problems of the area is its lack of urban design and planning, leaving the built environment to develop arbitrarily. Our proposal considers the natural characteristics, as well as the “memorial” aspects regarding the wildfires, re-creating the urban tissue in its totality. We re-design the road network, focusing on safety and orientation. We create parks and open spaces to resurrect, preserve, and highlight existing natural areas that were trespassed, while adding some much needed public uses. We re-organize the plot distribution, designate buildable zones within each plot to control the void-solid ratio in the settlement, define height limit zones, and set the Floor Area Ratio, to maximize natural lighting and maintain the existing small building scale. Finally, sets of pedestrian streets are introduced locally in each urban block, creating internal centers and connections between plots. In an attempt to give a more holistic design proposal, we study the configuration of planting on streets and in the parks in a larger scale, selecting species and controlling their placement. We zoom in a bit further, in the urban design scale, to provide some examples of benches and flowerbeds, designed to match the overall concept and complete our proposal.