Rimini in Between.

The geology of the Adriatic coast shows a recurring theme in soils conformation: the “Lames”. They constitute an element of physical connection in the territory that anticipates, in natural forms, the artificial territorial communication system. The project understands the themes of urban and spatial development of the city through such relation.

The history of the city has always been crossed by this tension of the life of the city with the natural ecosystem. Auguste Perret speaks of "Geography as a monument" by tracing in Le Havre’s project an evocative form of the city, starting from the relationships established with the topographical elements that constitute the identity of the place. For Rimini, the territorial structure will be decisive for the definition of the urban morphology deducing a topographical condition of architecture. Architect Vázquez Consuegra says, "Recognizing architecture as a paragraph of topography does not conflict with the possibility of recognizing it as a discipline, but rather situating it as part of a new know”. As observable in the scheme of the centuriation, the first large-scale anthropization of the territory, the intervention of the Romans obeys geo-morphological territorial conditions. The possibilities offered to the project derive mainly from the unfished spaces, remained vague. Thus, in a system of open spaces one can identify a new linear centrality. Thanks to its ambiguous trace character that can both connect and limit, the railway can be considered a unifying central spine, becoming a constitutive element of the territory and landscape project. The connection between the two natural arteries becomes the pretext for the redevelopment of the entire area. A dismissed and initially lifeless space can be structured on a linear system for the use of the park, structuring itself in a Promenade that develops in a succession of open spaces. The area, which will mainly function as a large urban park, will become a new linear center on which stand both the station and the new enlargement intervention defining a northern access, as already planned by the architect Giancarlo De Carlo's project. At the end of the boulevard, at the intersection with the linear park, there will be a new cultural center consisting of a multifunctional space hosting an Innovation Incubator and the school of Fine Arts which will be moved from its actual location in Via Roma, in favour of a new sector, characterized by a functional mixitè.