Osumi Island
This competition is based on a test site and is looking for ways of making places resilient. It is using design as a tool to search for best possible solutions of resilience in riverside conditions. It is also looking for ways of developing natural landscapes and defining ‘urban by nature’. Being a test site, it means that the findings of the process can be shared with many other similar context or sites that are at a flooding risk zone and lack features of being resilient. In this perspective, this exercise serves more than the city of Berat. The proposals might become an inspirational source for other sites in Albania or beyond its borders.
This competition is based on a test site and is looking for ways of making places resilient. It is using design as a tool to search for best possible solutions of resilience in riverside conditions. It is also looking for ways of developing natural landscapes and defining ‘urban by nature’. Being a test site, it means that the findings of the process can be shared with many other similar context or sites that are at a flooding risk zone and lack features of being resilient. In this perspective, this exercise serves more than the city of Berat. The proposals might become an inspirational source for other sites in Albania or beyond its borders.
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<strong>Osumi</strong> ISLAND<br />
A<br />
lbanian landscape is strongly characterized by natural and human<br />
aquatic resources given by its dense hydrographic network, which<br />
is composed of streams, rivers and water basins. This gives rise to<br />
variable landscapes, according to the water availability. In the different<br />
seasons of the year, lakes can become rivers and rivers can be streams.<br />
Consequently the landscapes nature, which is given by the relationship<br />
between natural and built environment, doesn’t have a ‘still’ form, but<br />
needs to be interpreted according to its mutable characteristics.<br />
80<br />
A&I design + Marialaura Polignano + UFG research + ARKE’ ingegneria
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