Quarries, water, stone walls and groves regenerating the identity landscape of Comiso, Italy

Abstract

The awareness of cultural specificity and geomorphologic and ecological singularities provides the instruments for an evolution capable of transforming the perception of the place and of recovering its memory. The design process is therefore centered in revealing character defining elements that time and indifference have blurred. A plan is then envisioned to create synergy between all these elements in order to capture the mosaic that in space and time has shaped the identity of this place to allow people to reconnect with it. The design restrains itself from a globalized language to adhere to this terrain and these traces through visual suggestions capable of weaving layers of memory to become present