Sardinia lighthouses path: Porto Ponte Romano and Capo d'Orso as examples of coastal landscapes.

The experimentation planning bases on the identification of founding features of places to rebuild their new identity starts from the recognition of the relationship between lighthouse and site, considering the places of disuse and abandonment as the opportunity to rebuild a new syntactic unity whom the lighthouse represents the polarity.

The two case studies analysed are located near industrial and military unused areas. They represent symbolically the beginning/ending doorway of Sardinia lighthouses and have a different architectural form and relationship with the shape of land which imposes to take on a different approach.

In the study area of Porto Ponte Romano the project takes on the pond of the canal as a defined field of intervention and it rebuilds the relationship of the lighthouse with the water location and salt landscape. It always considers the infrastructure trying to increase nature elements of usage and experience as gangways, jetties and panoramic viewpoints to allow watching, bathing and walking in the water and location saltworks.

In the second study case at Capo d'Orso the project provides for interventions focused on the improvement of the tourism infrastructure, the port, the usability of the island places with the construction of a system of physical and visual relationships through the path, the connection elements and the watching places to build a narrative continuity through a promenade architecturale which gets in from the sea to the top of plateau and describing the sense of place as a series of different and identity-making places.