Napoli Porta Est
Studio Egret West & Lombardini 22 submitted a competition entry for the international contest to redevelop an area immediately south of Naples main station, Napoli Centrale, and the nearby Garibaldi underground station. The scheme is backed by the Campania Region and FS Sistemi Urbani, a regeneration arm of the Italian national railways.
Napoli Porta Est proposes the radical transformation of a vast, fragmented post-industrial zone next to the Naples Central station at the eastern edge of the city into a civic and ecological quarter. Once defined by disconnection, the site is reimagined as a platform for regional identity, democratic life, and environmental repair.
At its core sits Castel Campania — a new regional government building that draws on the typology of Naples’ historic castles, not as an icon of defence, but as an open civic landmark. The building is lifted on a terraced landscaped plinth, allowing public movement, views and landscape to flow beneath and through. Around it, the plan introduces a kilometre-long shaded promenade, five thematic gardens, and a contemporary reinterpretation of the borgo — compact, mixed-use clusters that reweave the urban fabric between the site and the sea.
Rather than a singular gesture, the proposal is a framework for civic reassembly — architectural, ecological and social.
