Bari Costa Sud Competition

The strategic idea in the overall vision is to create a large Metropolitan Park to the east of the city of Bari, whose task is to act as a connector between the different parts of the city, implementing services and thus also the quality of urban life. The coastal park aims at enhancing environmental resources and in particular the sea resource, 'rewriting' the link that citizens and the city itself have with the sea. The park is subdivided into specific sectors, each of which includes the 'piazza'; this represents the multifunctional centre where accommodation, sports and cultural activities take place, and also creates a link/relationship/ between the inland area and the coastal area. Accessibility and mobility are ensured by a network of routes that already existed, but have been re-evaluated/re-thought/re-used: the tramway replaces the old railway, the scenic road along the seafront is transformed into a cycle/pedestrian path, and the inland routes become green/natural paths.