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Rural areas strategy
Phase 0
Existing situation
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Phase 1
Gradual opening of the Haringvliet dam, progressive regression of dam’s line, construction of the Sand Strip, which aims to retain the brackish water oods the crops, because of inuence of the salty water from the sea.
Full opening of Haringvliet dam. All the main infrastructrures work, settlements are protected by the secondary dykes, and new residential areas will deal with oods via anphibious techniques.
The sand strip
Recognition of appropriate position
The less deep areas are chosen in order to avoid high cost of construction, and waste.
Program
The dam embed a program to boost the economy of the region, such as a park, turbine park for energy, trekking, and boat ’s docking.
Future scenario
When water will raise, and oods will happen often, the area could host further natural area, connected to the program of the Sand Strip.
Individual thesis project
Msc EMU TUDelft | The Netherlands
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Corel Designer | Ai | Id
GIS arcmap
Photoshop
2014
Contextualizing Edges: The rural case of Sardinia
EMU postgraduate master | Thesis project
The social and economical phenomenon of depopulation led the countryside of Sardinia, as many others, to lose its inhabitants in favor of the major city centers. This is also called Rural Flight, and it's something that involves many other eld as rural Architecture and Urban morphology. Always more people move towards coasts and major city centers, or even abroad, seeking for better opportunities of education and job.On the other hand, always more people visit Sardinia because of its strong touristic vocation, not only for the beauty of its coasts, but also for the marvels which inland is particularly rich. The opportunities that this research explores are therefore focused on the Dicotomy that the Rural ight presents: a migration that is increasing the number of ghost towns as well as the residential expansion in the main cities, and on the other hand an increasing number of tourists that prefer wild and uninhabited to resorts and overcrowd.
The thesis fosters the mapping of social and economical data, giving thus a strong tool for the geographical understanding of a metaphisical phenomenon, and therefore a strong tool for the design interventions and proposals.
Altitude gap
2 km
The elevation this map shows, the pace of altitude, already sets the ground for the synthesis of three main areas: the Level Ground, the Hills and Plateaus, and the Mountains. The division is essential for the unerstanding of the Systems
An homogeneous system is dened by same topo-morphological, and architectonic typological features.
The link between the geographical characteristics and the social implications is a key element of the master thesis. The rural architecture belongs to the isolated context and the introverted mindset of its population, thus the way of living is easily readable already from the architectonic types. The understanding of the territory and its features eventually matches the topic of the research, the loss of population. The aim of the project is to develop a network nowadays lost, which would regenerate the already existing benets of the rural life.There will be no changes in the thin line that bond architectures to its natural context and inhabitants. Nor there will be inhabitation. The old professions are strenghten and linked to create a system. The existing public network will be re -thinked to match the old and new needs. The system will take advantage of a renovated key structure, choose in a strategic point, which aims to connect the rural to the global, so the market of the handcrafts would have the chance of a global appeal.
Synthesis
The broad geographical, economical, and social research, eventually brought to a complex regional situation, that sought the necessity of a synthesis. The summary pinpointed a series of homogeneous "systems" similar in geographical features, social behaviour, architectonic typology, and urban morphology Within the thesis reseearch I opted to choose one system to develop in details, and this system would be the more affected by the socio-economical situation.
Basic Services
The recognition of the Public Services on a sample of villages across the systems dened by the synthesis, gave the chance to continue the study on one microsystem, the poorer.
The pattern is anyhow clear: the less the place can afford to offer to its citizens, the stronger the migration to more "confortable" places. The road to the solution is not to provide the same service multiplied in each settlement, but it's to strategically link the villages to create a uid system, not only of and , but also a public transports public services powerful economy that shares spaces within the microsystem.
Basic
Natural heritages
The mapping of the most important , brought to the layers of the microsystem discover of its potentialities, as the presence of an existing but hidden public network, the needed services are there but scattered within the microsystem. A tangled country-road network denes a landscape of tiny settlements and natural park, the interventions will aim to preserve the network while proposing a global intersection to them.
The charts show in detail the public transport network and the production for each village of the system. Their importance lays on the fact they are the backbone for any intervention, the ease of moving within the system allows exchange, foundamental for both citizens and visitors.
Cereals
Olive trees
Grapevines
Broad Beans
Cherries
Barley
Almond
Sheep Pork
Goat Horse
Cow
Fish_trout
Fish_eel
Milk
Cheese
Slow food
Wood’s carving
Cork
Stone
Weaving textiles
Copper
Adobe Knife
Neolithic
Nuragic
Roman
Local types
Local Dress
Corona Arrubbia
Due Giare
Perda ‘e Idocca
Photography Fotografia
Italy, Baunei 2012
The contrast between wide sights and tiny alleys, as well as rural, and slow, could be clear in only one click.This picture was the coverpage of my M.Sc. thesis in Architecture, and it had to recap a quite broader story. In the following collection I juxtaposed pictures to create a story, a composition of lines and perspectives.
Venice, Italy 2013
Venice, Italy 2013
Brighton, UK 2011
