Luigi Palermo - Portfolio - A3 - nl pdf

A line, an edge
A landmark on the top edge of the city of Nebida
Founded as a mining village, today, Nebida is a
small urban area of one thousand inhabitants. It’s
located on the coastal slope of the west coast of
Sardinia in an environmental system with enormous
potential that is currently undeveloped.
The thesis’s theme focus on study and design of
spaces that mark the transition between the urban
area and the natural environment, identifying those
areas and signs inserted between one element
and another, the built spaces and those that are
not. The first step has been important to understand
how the contemporary city relates its edges to the
landscape and the natural environment to avoid it
from spreading uncontrolled or creating empty /
abandoned spaces.
The strategy was to cover the lack of services for
the tourism by creating a landmark able to trigger
a process of redevelopment of the urban area. This
idea, together with the study on the use of the area
by the visitors and its different landscape qualities,
has led the focus of the project to the highest part
of the village.
The choice has focused on the creation of a landmark,
a wall, which marked sharply the beginning and
the end both of urban natural spaces, measuring the
extension of the village in the territory. The landmark
will house the space reserved to tourism’s services,
such as restaurants, hotels, health centres and
exhibition halls with the aim to address the current
lack of services and to re-evaluate a little-known
area with a great landscape value.
The inclusion of these activities will generate a new
transverse flow of visitors which goes from the top
side of the urban area to the coastal slope down
below.
The building looks like a volume that sunk into the
ground emerging or staying submerged according
to the orography’s variation, keeping a constant
height along its entire length. Hence from the
rooftop, it can obtain a path with a great landscape
value through which people have access both to
the natural area above and the urban area below.
The parts emerging from the ground appear like a
blank wall almost without openings and they host
the spaces reserved to the visitors. Patios, stairs and
opening mediate the passage to the outdoor space
that lead to the discovery of the landscape. Recesses
and the protrusions generate entrances and external
vertical connections that lead to the upper path. The
light in the indoor spaces is zenithal and comes
in through the skylights and patios, recalling the
environment of the mine. The walkable areas, such
as paths and stairs, are finished in wood while all
the finishes in concrete. These materials have been
chosen for their ability to mutate over time by the
action of atmospheric agents, recalling the ruins of
the industrial buildings in the area.
WHERE:
- ITALY, SARDINIA
NEBIDA
MARGINAL AREAS
Sea side margin
Mountain side margin
OLD AND NEW VISITOR’S FLOW
Services for tourism
DIAGRAM OF DIALOG BETWEEN PROJECT AND TOPOGRAPHY
THE PROJECT INSERTED ON THE LANDSCAPE
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