A student-winning proposal frames the Gas Factory of Ostiense as an asset for cultural programming, ecological restoration, and community life by preserving industrial structures and designing for change over time.
The proposal treats the Gasometro and surrounding industrial ruins as adaptable infrastructure, converting them into event spaces, a museum, and community facilities while keeping visible signs of age and decay.
Designing for time is central: interventions allow vegetation and wildlife to grow alongside rusting structures, linking the site to the Tiber and creating new public and ecological connections.
# Project snapshot
# Why the Gasometro matters
# Main moves of the proposal
# Design approach: "designing for time"
The team emphasizes a long‑view approach. Interventions are calibrated to allow materials and vegetation to evolve together. Rather than erasing decay, the strategy keeps rusted beams and ruinous shells as legible layers that host new plantings and wildlife. That approach aims to make the site resilient and visually legible as an artifact of industrial history and a living urban space.
# Landscape and ecological strategy
The project links the Gas Factory site to the Tiber by leveraging existing riparian vegetation and proposing a small urban forest. Planting and water features convert neglected land into wildlife‑friendly corridors while providing people with shaded spaces and vantage points. Former transport and industrial elements become pedestrian connections and lookouts rather than demolished obstacles.
# Social and cultural programming
# Narrative and memory
Preserved industrial fragments are positioned as narrative threads. The proposal uses material memory—rust, columns, basins, bridges—to tell the story of the area's industrial rise, wartime losses, and the potential for ecological and social renewal. Memorial and contemplative spaces are explicitly included as places to register those histories.
# Project team and recognition
Students: Ammu Anitha Muraleedharan and Vidula Dinesh, Politecnico di Milano. Supervisor: Sara Protasoni. The project was published on World Landscape Architecture and awarded in the 2026 WLA Student Awards.
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