Nemi Lake Agricultural Park: actions and tools of economic and landscape regeneration

The Nemi Lake is part of the Castelli Romani Park, south of Rome.

The dual nature, of basin and crater, has always characterized the ways of inhabiting and perceiving the lake. Sacred wood, imperial residence, district of flowers and strawberries, scene of the Grand Tour: these are some of the identities that followed one another.

During recent decades, the basin of the lake has shown symptoms of increasing aphasia as a consequence of the progressive abandonment both of the cultivated countryside and of the lakeside as a public space.

The Agricultural Park of Nemi Lake is our regeneration proposal for such a peculiar territory: a regulated and unitary plan of reconfiguration and reuse of places, in order to enhance the basin and reactivate the two towns, Nemi and Genzano. Through the principles of multifunctional agriculture, the aim is to improve local economy and to add value to collateral socio-cultural activities.

The design’s aims are the remodelling of the agricultural system, the tourist experience implementation and the public space reorganization.

The design’s tools are the reorganization of the floriculture and fruit production cycle, the introduction of rural residences and the articulation of a renewed lakefront system of public spaces.

The landscape architecture design became a synthesis between agricultural and nursery production and integrated management of the latent resources of the territory, in which the agrarian space is the  framework for a restructuring action.