Palermo Waterfront

The urban intervention must primarily address social needs, promoting a model of an open, inclusive, tolerant, and multicultural city. At the same time, it will be essential to carefully tackle environmental and climate challenges, inline with the present and future conditions that the city will need to manage in the coming years.

The waterfront masterplan engages with the historical and natural systems of the territory throughout its development, reinterpreting them and projecting them toward the sea. The project draws from the consolidated city and natural systems, identifying their themes and dynamics to translate them into differentiated strategies along the waterfront, with the aim of strengthening the relationship between the city and the sea, restoring connections, and enhancing interactions.

The project goes beyond the vision of a merely decorative landscape, exclusively associated with leisure and contemplation, to define a clear and structured environmental strategy. At the core of the proposal is the integration of two complementary systems: on one hand, the green system, represented by the Waterfront Parks; on the other, the blue system, consisting of the coastal framework and the mitigating power of the sea. The la er is fully integrated into the project, establishing an osmotic relationship between the natural environment and the city.