Territorial research into synthetic coastal ecologies: multi-layered, densified habitats where infrastructure engages with the processes of the territory.
This territorial research challenges outdated and mono-tonic, mono-functional modes of reading and (re-)designing the territory.
The project explores new forms of inhabitation and of production, new synthetic ecologies able to propose multi-layered, complex and highly densified habitats within coastal areas. Within it, infrastructure is understood as the means to engage with the machinic processes ranged across the territory. The critical role played by infrastructure in the organisation and management of the city’s complex systems of movement, communication and exchange is recognised as the basis from which its operation can be further developed and pushed beyond its tendency to fragment and divide toward other possibilities. We pursue the formal and material articulation of infrastructure, coordinating its operations with the territorial processes, forms and parameters identified in the site, developing its relation to the ground.