The project for Via Turconi, promoted by the municipality of Mendrisio, began as an extension of the mandate to design the square in front of the regional hospital. The desire is to make the street space more pleasant and more usable, and to create new relationships between the various institutions present. The project, which involves not only the municipality but also the Academy of Architecture and the hospital, is developed along the stretch of road close to the nucleus, where several representative bourgeois buildings from the early twentieth century are surrounded by majestic gardens.
The construction of the urban void has always been a founding aspect of city building and is still one of the aspects that determine urban quality. It is the tool that creates unity and coherence within the discontinuity of the built environment that characterises the southern districts of Mendrisio like much of today's built environment.
The homogeneity and quality of the spaces to be created with the project is determined by the construction of the green spaces, both the existing ones and the new trees: interesting meeting and sharing places are created within the fabric of the city, connected by a sort of urban promenade that leads from the centre to the Casvegno park, a park of great landscape interest.
