Urban sliding

Urban Sliding proposes habitation in a mixed urban space to suggest different ways of living. Sustainable development is the formulation for an anti-segregation process integrating social and environmental diversity. A more habitable settlement has to be devised, earthquake-proof in this particular case: the base is the para-seismic potential that absorbs the telluric forces. The infrastructure of the ground is used as a foundation for a sliding machine. The base is a new layer, the continuity of the street life. The project aim is to maintain the actual inhabitants and favour a mixed density, imagining the city as a landscape. To provide a positive image of the city to the actual inhabitants means to recycle the existing qualities of the site. A sustainable city is set up on the field of the self-constructed one. The mental topography is regarded as a starting point. Human memory of progress constitutes the base of consolidation. The mutation strategy acts like a tabula natura where time is the basic material. The Sumer district’s urban space is not immediately mutable. It takes place in fragments, as a discontinuous process. Working on the voids allows the value of the ground to be recovered. The project suggests a cartography of these voids as tools for urban regeneration. Research on the existing is building up a strategy of urban acupuncture.