Parco dello Sport Al Maglio

The project develops the concept of an integrated sports park, where the naturalistic and landscape components are associated harmoniously with the built components, giving rise to a single large sports and recreational area called the Parco dello Sport. Coming about as a result of the need to create a new stadium for Lugano to replace a structure that was obsolete and inadequate in terms of safety and the development of the sports sector in which Lugano excels, the Parco dello Sport was conceived to enhance the entire Maglio urban area and bring an abandoned peripheral ward back to life, turning it into a destination of wellbeing for all citizens in a renewed context of the urban landscape. The Parco dello Sport is developed as a new living space for the Lugano area, a large green lung open to all where the necessary sports facilities are welcomed within an oasis of nature and biodiversity near the dense urban fabric that accompanies the green ray of the River Cassarate in its city section.

The project stretches over an area of around 100,000 m². It envisages the creation of a multi-purpose Palazzetto dello Sport, closely connected to the main football field and performing the function of a “link” between various levels of the territory. Organising the theme of connection on an urban scale, the Parco Al Maglio succeeds in closely relating together characterising elements of the territory that, outside of this unitary design, would not have functional affinities: the course of the River Cassarate, a wide, calm and sun-kissed stretch of water, various walkways going from the City to the surrounding woods, contact with the nearby Municipality of Canobbio.