SAMIA LANDSCAPE
A new rural geography
Function
Landscape
Type
Renovation and
transformation
Status
Completed
Location
Maruggio (TA)
The landscape design provides the main framework for the project and serves as the element that connects the different architectural structures on the estate. Rather than merely serving as a background for the activities taking place inside the buildings, the landscape represents the system through which the entire complex finds unity and continuity.
The landscape design provides the main framework for the project and serves as the element that connects the different architectural structures on the estate. Rather than merely serving as a background for the activities taking place inside the buildings, the landscape represents the system through which the entire complex finds unity and continuity.
Year
2025
Site area
Approx. 100 hectares
The site
At the time of purchase, the property consisted of a succession of fragmented agricultural fields, the result of changes over time and lacking an overarching plan capable of linking the various parts of the estate. The project addresses this situation by developing a new spatial structure that re-establishes the dialogue between buildings, fields and open spaces within a cohesive system.
Project team
Landscape: Martina D’Alessandro Architettura
partnerships
Davide Groppi
Photo
Claudio Tajoli Diego Marella
Two souls, one landscape
The landscape design is based on the dual nature of these places. On the one hand, the vineyard, which extends as far as the eye can see in a grid of geometric, rhythmic lines, oriented along a north-south axis to take advantage of the prevalent winds. The regularity of the rows forms the landscape’s primary productive framework and shapes its morphology. On the other hand, there is the spread-out Mediterranean garden, characterised by typical local crops and a system of paths with soft, sinuous lines that cross the property, linking rest areas, panoramic viewpoints and spaces for relaxing immersed in the vegetation.
Publications
Martina D’Alessandro (2024). Landscape as a programme, pp. 51–64. In: Patrizia Tassinari (ed.), UNESCO. Landscapes, cultural and natural heritage. Bologna: Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna. ISBN: 9788854971462.
Martina D’Alessandro (2022). Dwelling the landscape, Tradition and innovation, pp. 132–139. In: Mauro Marzo, Viviana Ferrario, Viola Bertini (eds.), Between Sense of Time and Sense of Place, Syracuse: LetteraVentidue. ISBN: 978-88-6242-673-2.
A new rural geography
A series of slow connections that runs through the entire estate. Footpaths and cycle routes link the farmhouse, the trulli, the chapel, the sheepfold and the various viewpoints, creating a sequence of experiences that allows visitors to explore the landscape at a different pace to that of agricultural production.
Exhibitions
Exhibition “25X25 Architecture. A Contemporary Atlas”, organised by the Department of Architecture at the University of Bologna and the Single-Cycle Master’s Degree Programme in Architecture, Cesena campus, as part of the 25th Anniversary of Architecture Cesena (1999–2024), under the patronage of Cesena City Council and the Forlì-Cesena Institute of Architects, held in Cesenatico at the Colonia Agip from 13 September 2024 to 14 September 2024.
The presence of historic buildings shapes the landscape design, whilst the landscape in turn restores meaning and connection to the buildings, transforming a series of separate elements. Rather than merely connecting the existing buildings, the project constructs a new geography of the site. Vineyards, gardens, paths and spaces for relaxation become part of a single system, restoring continuity to an estate that time had gradually fragmented.
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