Intermodalità, territorio e architettura: il nuovo Polo Intermodale dell’Aeroporto di Trieste"

One year after the New Intermodal Hub of the Trieste Airport offi cially opened, it is time for a comparative study of the design and planning process underlying the construction of the new hub at Ronchi dei Legionari. The authors illustrate the main themes and places, techniques, tools and methods used to conceive, scale and integrate this new intermodal infrastructure into the territory, in terms of city and road planning, and with respect to the the local, regional, national, and international scales and dimensions that an infrastructure of this calibre inevitably impacts. The intermodal Hub annexed to the Trieste Airport is the result of a research project by the Department of Engineering and Architecture at the Università degli Studi within the context of an agreement with Aeroporti Friuli Venezia Giulia S.p.a. The requirements that de ned the research brief derive from the contingent situations of the airport complex, the desire to contribute to the growth of passenger ow and the need to improve access from the region in general. The request was thus to provide a formal and functional solution to speed the project up and optimize the budget without repercussion on the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the work.