Social Sustainability/ sustainable land use and sustainable natural resources use

The water calls to our minds many concepts. The water is one of the four basic elements of the cosmos with the air, the ground and the fire and for the ancient Greeks symbolizes intuition and emotion. Nowadays water in more closely linked to concepts such as the purity, the dynamism and the regeneration. In a context in which the artificial world prevails over the natural one, the water maintains its semantic meaning. The water never stops and conveys the idea of strength and energy. So the water today is felt like the main element to sweep away the dross of material life and fall into the ancestral dimension of stillness and expectation.
The project, therefore, is designed as a system of places involved in the movement of people, who, like water, enter the pool, or the bathing lake, and then return to their natural path.

The warm water of the two sources flows warming up the upper tank, so that people coming from the entrance, go down to the natural bathing and meet the polycarbonate "Cubes" where have place the public utilities (ticket office, storage, dressing rooms, winter access to the pool). With bathing spring, water and people come into an ideally contact going in the same direction.
So that, from the first tank, which has a temperature of 37 °C degrees, people, as water, are moving in the second storage where the water slowly becomes cooler and then overflows into the natural bathing lake. The artificial pool becomes natural and the excess of water returns to its way.
The bathing biolake is divided into a small area of low water where we can find aquatic plants, marsh plants, submerged plants which have a role of phytoremediation and oxygenation of the water. Their job is increased by zeolite and gravel.1 In the biolake there is also a deep water area where is possible to swim.

1 Aquatic plants, have an aesthetic role, but their main function is to absorb nitrogen and phosphorus dissolved in the water to reduce the possibility of eutrophication, helping to contain the growth of algae. The submerged plants help maintain oxygenated the water.
M. Vegini, C. Vegini, La piscina naturale, Napoli, 2011, pp.17