Research coordinators
Federico Zanfi, Francesco Curci
ANTIFRAGILITY LAB
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Project
The sea of Lecce
Innovative approach for an international competition to design Lecce coastal park
#climateAntiFragileTerritoriesPeriod
2024 / 2025
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The project concerns the provision of technical and scientific support to the Lecce Municipal Administration for the drafting of the Preliminary Design Document/DPP related to an international competition aimed at designing the coastal park of Lecce.
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The objective is to ensure the drafting of a DPP consistent with the provisions of the General Urban Plan currently being adopted (drafted with the scientific advice of DAStU in the period 2022-2023) and capable of stimulating the candidacy of innovative projects in two main respects: (a) the assumption of protected areas, wetlands, sandy shores, and historical and cultural assets present in the coastal strip as the main elements of territorial structure, to be restored where compromised and recomposed within an integrated system of diffuse naturalness and soft mobility; (b) the development of retreat strategies aimed not only at relocating coastal urbanization where exposed to hydrogeological hazards, but above all at returning to public use large spaces of access to the sea.
The project, on the basis of what is indicated in the adopting PUG of Lecce, has the task of putting into practice some regulatory innovations introduced by the plan itself (transfer of building credits of buildings to be demolished, exchange of freed soils with other buildable soils in more suitable contexts, etc.). It is more specifically aimed at fostering the development of application projects, for the first time at the national level, of emerging concepts and approaches such as that of planned retreat, that is, integrating climate and environmental issues with issues of spatial justice. This since the realization of the new coastal park of Il Mare di Lecce aims to demonstrate how it is possible at the same time to secure some particularly fragile coastal spaces and to restore legality and usability to spaces and landscapes that for decades have been unduly occupied and in conflict with environmental and landscape protections.
Multidisciplinary input within the project will be ensured by the collaboration (already initiated for the PUG and in the process of being defined with regard to the design competition) with the Ocean Predictions and Applications Division of the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation (CMCC), which deals in particular with issues related to the rise of the mean sea level and extreme marine phenomena that will affect the Lecce coast in the coming decades.
The project, on the basis of what is indicated in the adopting PUG of Lecce, has the task of putting into practice some regulatory innovations introduced by the plan itself (transfer of building credits of buildings to be demolished, exchange of freed soils with other buildable soils in more suitable contexts, etc.). It is more specifically aimed at fostering the development of application projects, for the first time at the national level, of emerging concepts and approaches such as that of planned retreat, that is, integrating climate and environmental issues with issues of spatial justice. This since the realization of the new coastal park of Il Mare di Lecce aims to demonstrate how it is possible at the same time to secure some particularly fragile coastal spaces and to restore legality and usability to spaces and landscapes that for decades have been unduly occupied and in conflict with environmental and landscape protections.
Multidisciplinary input within the project will be ensured by the collaboration (already initiated for the PUG and in the process of being defined with regard to the design competition) with the Ocean Predictions and Applications Division of the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation (CMCC), which deals in particular with issues related to the rise of the mean sea level and extreme marine phenomena that will affect the Lecce coast in the coming decades.