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host innovative and technologically advanced production, implementing both agricultural and industrial activities related to natural protection. While on the northern edge the park will continue improving the natural oasis which is already part of a wellprotected and cared environment of the core zone. The main interventions can be summarized as follows. Firstly, the project seeks to improve the interventions already taken by the local administration in reinforcing the existing pinewood, progressively thickening it, colonizing the space of the sandy beach . The pinewood forest is meant as the main connecting element of the whole park environment and is of primary relevance in structuring the new coastline landscape. However, this action is also strategic in organizing access to the beach. Reducing the distance between the forest and the sea and providing small parking lots plunged into the forest, can prevent private cars accessing the shore, and the same parking lots can be considered as flexible public spaces during the low season. Secondly, the existing urbanization plunged into the forest and devoted to seaside tourism is to be recovered and requalified. To avoid illegal and low-quality buildings in this strip of hotels and secondary houses, but also to avoid large derogatory projects, we propose to evaluate the opportunity of a moderate extension of this “resort in the park� environment. It could achieve the double goal
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Figure 5. The reorganized main road is a tangible signal of a renewed idea of citizenship and belonging. Students: C.Catapano, P. Dipace, P.o Nobili Vitelleschi ( 2017-18), Politecnico di Milano
of requalifying the existing stock and providing a small number of locally owned and managed tourist premises. The direct involvement of the Park Administration could be taken into consideration for this intervention. The forest also integrates a bicycle and pedestrian path, which runs along the margin of the lagoon and gives access to the piers for inner navigation and to a range of park-related services (information center, birdwatching installations, didactic paths, etc.). All of the park installations are designed to be the product of local craftsmanship and are meant to reinforce the local economy, recovering and developing
local tradition of wood working at service of the park maintenance. A first footbridge, crossing the forest, has already been built by the municipality and is made of pinewood, collected from the park maintenance. Finally, at the south of the coast line where the desolate landscape of the failed land reclamation divides the lagoon from the sea, we propose a new productive landscape. Large plots, organized on a grid recovering the former reclamation grid, are detached by the lagoon by a thick strip of pine wood forest: the land is here available for a range of activities which should introduce innovative productions strongly linked
