The municipal committee of the municipality of Thessaloniki approved the submission of a financed proposal entitled “Regeneration of the Aristotelian Platz and the axis” as part of the “Central Macedonia” program 2021-2027 with an individual budget of 22.32 million euros.
According to an update from the Independent Department of Operational Planning and Monitoring of Development Programs, The Call Proposed to Include The Project Concerne Regeneration Projects of Squares, Urban Are, Axes, With The Aim Of Increasing Greenery, Improving the Quality and Functionality of Access to Open Public Space, as well as the creation of New Green – Public Space Infrastructures With High Environmental and Social Quality Through the Utilization of Abandoned Or Inactive Infrastructures (Old Barracks, etc.).
Also included:
– Projects for the use of small public areas (E> 500 m²) with the aim of forming them as green infrastructures that reduce the intensity of the phenomenon of Urban Heat Island in the logic of the “Pocket Parks”.
– Intervention projects in public buildings for the development of green roofs or horizontal green surfaces on the facades of buildings.
The Purpose of the Proposed Project is the Qualitative and Environmental Upgrade of the Public Space of the Aristotelous Axis, Including the Homonymous Square, The Pedestrian Sections of the Street and the Rectangular Widing of the Axis at the Intersection With Egnatia Street, The Promotion of the Identity of the Place, The Revitalization of the Public Space with the Principles of Modern Urban Design and Respect for Its Historicity, The Removal of Marginalization – Where is Observed – The attractiveness of the space and the stimulation of traffic.
It includes works of regeneration and redesigning the Aristotelian square and the road from the Nikis Avenue to the Egnatia Street, including the surfaces of the arcades along the axis.
The main goals of regeneration are as follows:
-The acquisition of a modern public space in accordance with the principles of sustainable mobility, the bioclimatic design and the “intelligent city”.
-The restoration of the character of the Aristotelian axis as a single perception.
-The emphasis on the identity of the axis by removing all different elements that gradually accumulate with fragmented interventions in public space.
-The integration of areas to stop, walk, relax and collect on the axis.
-The functional and aesthetic connection of the public space of the axis with those on the ground floor of the buildings that surround it.
-The improvement of the image of the city's architecture by formulating proposals for the facades/window committees of the shops in the galleries on the ground floor.
-The standard design of urban devices is high aesthetics and functionality.
-The use of innovative, high -quality and low -maintenance building materials.
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