Redifining the industrial value: regeneration of the old LATO quarry in Tourkovounia hill

The diploma project attempts to redesign the area of the abandoned LATO quarry in Tourkovounia, which is the highest and most extensive hill range in the Attica basin. The project wishes to create a new park for the city and simultaneouly to enhance the industrial remains of the area, as they form important elements of urban memory and industrial heritage. Two designs approaches are proposed, the cultural and the landscaped. The quarry area is hosting the creation of a Museum of Mineral Resources and the abandoned shells are being remodeled in order to allow various art forms and open air activities in a vegetaded bioclimated context. An "industrial intineray" is formed, as a transition from the cultural context to the landscape and vice versa, organizing the composition of the design. All the interventions highlight the important charecter of the industrial heritage of the area at the same time, constitute a connecting link for the sorrounding neighborhoods, turning the area into an imporant pole of urban attraction.