Imagine the landscape of the Mondello Bay before the founding of the garden city, in a moment in time in which the swamps were stretched over most of the plain and the tides were designing a coastline made of coves and creeks long gone.
The project moves from the suggestion of rediscovering the original morphology inspired by the natural characteristics of the place, by the movement of the waves crashing on the beach and by the marks left on the shore, proposing an overall redesign of the waterfront through soil movements, slopes and turns, aiming to reveal the founding principle of the first settlement.
The new seaside waterfront is developed along morphogenetic lines that accomodate the different functions of a modern promenade, overlaying different types of surface materials, ecological colored asphalt and stabilized soil, concrete pavers and wooden decks, green parterres and reflective pools.
Mondello waterfront
Palermo, ITALY 2007
with Sofie De Meester
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