Rediscovering Siracusa’s sea front should mean something beyond a territorial expansion. The scars left by human and natural events help us read the history of the territory. This process can be intensified to organize people’s activities, natural elements and energetic points. The creation of a parametric tool helps in identifying hotspots that are later organized in an intensive gradient in response to existing conditions. This generates different activity gradients and identifiable zones related to particular programs. Our proposal is a system with several possible outcomes, in which social and natural inputs interact in a reciprocal activation. Landscape becomes an interactive media, specially driven by social inputs. Energy and infrastructures, organized in a catalogue, work as a network of autonomous elements. Site materials and local vegetation are incorporated. With this collection of dynamics, the site will keep tracking every process in which it is involved.
The scarification is done through the creation of a parametric tool that enables us to highlight the hotspots for the social, natural and energetic activities. In this hotspots, a simple displacement of land can represent a protection that allows natural vegetation to grow, a way to keep water for later uses, a space for social activities. Some other places that might require a greater input of soil can rely on the use of compost and biological waste that can be used as fertilizer for communal urban orchards. These in turn become an activator of social dynamics in the city.
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Competition result: honourable mention
Team: Berardo Matalucci, Fabiano Spano, Enrico Crobu, Guillermo Ivan Lopez Dominguez, Chrysokona Mavrou
Team (collaborators): Luis Edgardo Fraguada, Gabriella Castellanos, Karlo Alejandro De Soto Molina
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