Coastal Defence in Palermo

The planning assumptions, based on the principles of environmental sustainability and to those in the integrated management of the coast, took into account the potential interference that would have generated with the system of tourist ports. The solution, through the declination of the various uses of the coast and the levels of accessibility, allows a variety of management models and innovative participation of the stakeholders in open and integrated forms of co-planning. The project, pilot and not only as regards the widespread problem of waste at sea, but also for the whole of the Coast Range south east of Palermo, is the yard and laboratory upgrading and the development of core tourism Sustainable coast of Palermo. The arrangement of the coast, the logic of a re-design did not post anything “natural”, but qualifies ineluctably a “purely artificial” processing or adjustment. The design approach is geared to both the engineering solution of appearance related to stabilization and security of the landfill, and the configuration of a landscape dignity in mutual relationship with the forms and functions of the recovery of the city and addressed the two critical in an integrated technical solutions in order to use the technical and design variations to define innovative and creative uses related to the sea, the coastline and the city. The project concerning the upgrading of the landfill Water Corsari has as a primary and direct objective the reduction and gradual elimination of the dispersion in the sea of loose material and / or colloidal by the weather and weather-marine, but a full restoration the natural characteristics of where it is a priority that they are eliminated the causes of degradation of the seabed due to landfill waste and not purified.