In an area marked by time and depopulation, the proposal does not limit itself to intervening on the built environment, but intends to rewrite a dialogue between matter, landscape and community. The goal is to restore meaning and identity, mending the urban fabric and opening up new possibilities for relationships between the inhabited area and the surrounding environment.
There are two main interventions, both conceived as landscape devices: the belvedere of via Mannu, suspended over the void of the Riu Pardu valley, and the redefinition of via Mazzini, which finds a new urban measure in the design of the ground.
In via Mazzini, the project restores dignity through a new mineral skin. The road surface, made of beaten concrete, defines a material continuity capable of dialoguing with the context, while the sidewalk becomes a sensitive element: paved in washed stone with Orosei marble aggregates, delimited by basalt stone kerbs, it is structured around the existing trees, welcomed in light flowerbeds that become part of the story.
The light – discreet, grazing, recessed – accompanies the step, transforms the everyday into gesture, suggests presence without imposing itself.
The viewpoint on Via Mannu is instead a gesture of subtraction: the removed asphalt leaves room for a new material that, without rhetoric, reconstructs the visual relationship with the valley. A minimal but dense space that restores the centrality of the landscape.
The guiding principles of the project – flexibility, sustainability, durability – translate into concrete choices. The material is treated as an element of narration: the architectural concrete with exposed aggregates is not just a finish, but an ecological device, made with processing waste to reduce the consumption of natural resources.
The monolithic furnishings – essential, solid – are designed to resist time, use, vandalism, reducing maintenance to a minimum.
The vegetation, chosen among the native species, is not decoration but an active part of the system. The flowerbeds and green areas become ecological infrastructures that reduce the need for water and affirm a precise desire for respect and integration with the territory.
In this project, the village is not just a place, but a possibility. An urban landscape that, despite its small size, aspires to rebuild a collective sense of space. A new balance between man, architecture and nature.