Re-articulating Trade in the Adriatic Coast
Braudel described the Mediterranean as a sea surrounded by mountains. A space of flows of trade and people that formed cities at the meeting point of mountain passes and access to the sea.
But today this is a coastline of blockages. As industry and tourism drive forward urbanisation in these coastal territories, large scale infrastructures expand along the waterfronts and the city retracts from its coastline.
My proposal is to transfer these port infrastructures onto a new archipelago of artificial islands, thereby freeing up the existing waterfronts for regeneration and urbanisation.
By opening up this system, the city can be re-read as a single territory that reintegrates productive spaces within the metropolis, and in turn realigns the city towards its natural space of reference - the sea.