Re-Conditioning: From Strategy to Project: Gabicce's (Italy) Waterfront Case Study

The unlimited growth typical of the Modernism and Post-Modernism has left a disorderly and uncontrolled soil consumption along with an urban heritage mainly designed on functional organization, that the economic crisis, social changes and time have emptied of their primary sense and abandoned at a slow decline. The redefinition of meaning of this heritage takes place with a theoretical and methodological approach that includes memory, innovation and sustainability leading the mutation of spaces towards the assumption of new value by using tools of hybridization. The architectural theory underlying the proposal presented for the redefinition of the Gabicce waterfront, a city of the linear coastal system of Emilia-Romagna, is that of circular re-conditioning. The philosophy is based on the contamination between places and objects capable of reactivating the identity of "discarded" urban elements as seaside resorts, where the contemporary tourist fruition has led to physical and symbolic obsolescence. The main objectives are: Redefining the limit by changing it in margin: the interface between the new and different social relations and spaces. Involve the discarded urban elements, the traditional seaside resort, in a place that host events 365 days a year. he methodological process uses the one proposed in 2003 by Haeckel, Adaptably loop, based on the multidisciplinary of knowledge. It is implemented whit one new point and declined in: sense, field of action in which it operates, the areas between the beach and the border of the built space; interpretation outlines the elements of the circular and adaptive process, with a re-elaboration of the concept of border in porous margin: band of overlapping of cultures and events linked to tourism; decision defines the intervention strategy: next clusters from the "discarded" built area and a different layout and form of the resorts in the new margin; action determines the operational implementation tool, the BEND, evolution of the traditional seaside resort with a concave form for winter use, or convex for the summer one; the outcome, a project that forms an urban archipelago between units heterogeneously arranged on the ground united by the denial of the "consumption" system.