Article source: AllesWirdGut Architektur ZT GmbH 

Conversions of old city centers into traffic-free shopping and tourists’ malls have frequently been performed according to trite recipes. The shops’ increase in turnover mostly stands in opposite to the commercial alienation of old structures – a process of ‘gentrification’ in which old substance is scenically pepped up, while local societies are hollowed out and superseded.

Image Courtesy © Hertha Hurnaus

• Architects: AllesWirdGut Architektur ZT GmbH
• Project: FUZI pedestrian Candido
• Location: Innichen, Italy
• Photography: Hertha Hurnaus, AllesWirdGut
• Customer: Community Innichen – San Candido, Pflegplatz I-39038 San Candido – San Candido
• Start of planning Competition: 08/1999
• Completion: 1 Phase, 07/2002, 2 phase 07.2003
• Nettogrundrißfläche: 6.300m ²
• General Planning: AllesWirdGut architecture ZT GmbH
• Employee: Gilles Delalex, Frank Müller, Jan Schröder, Martin Brandt, Sebastian Gretzer
• Special experts: Site office assistant supervision Brunico