DKA’s project for Maglie is included in ArchDaily’s international selection Rewilding the City, exploring how landscape and biodiversity can reshape contemporary urban environments.
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Bachelet Park-Square: landscape as urban infrastructure
26 Giugno 2026
What happens when landscape is no longer treated as an addition to the city, but as part of its underlying structure?
ArchDaily addresses this question in Rewilding the City: 6 Unbuilt Projects from the ArchDaily Community, an editorial selection bringing together six proposals from Italy, the United Kingdom, India, Romania and Mexico that explore new relationships between urban environments and natural systems.
Among them is Bachelet Park-Square in Maglie, designed by DKA – Diele Kerciku Architetture with SIT&A, Marco Antonini Architects, Studio Matera and Studio Scalera.
The project rethinks a fragmented urban area as a connected system of public spaces, using landscape as an active element in the transformation of the site. At its heart is the Biodiversity Ring, a continuous spatial structure that brings together vegetation, pedestrian routes and collective spaces, establishing new connections between previously disconnected parts of the city.
Rather than defining the park and square as separate elements, the proposal considers them as part of a single evolving landscape. Architecture, public life and natural processes intersect to create a new piece of urban fabric in which biodiversity becomes an integral part of the experience and identity of the place.
Bachelet Park-Square thus enters the wider international discussion explored by ArchDaily: how bringing nature back into the urban fabric can become a means of rethinking public space and the relationship between cities and their ecological systems.
