Recycling city. Resilient city

The ongoing research investigates the theme of urban resilience, interpreted not only as a characteristic of cities to reactivate, but as a planning and urban design challenge. In the project for the Oreto river mouth in Palermo, adaptability of forms and flexibility of uses are design tools, improving landscape and public space quality, lowering the hydraulic risk related to flooding events, respecting cycles and energies of a delicate system as the river mouth within an urban context is.