„A Mountain to the North, A Lake to The South, Paths to the West, A River to the East“

(Krasznahorkai László poetically orbiting a garden in search of the unobtainable)

The steep hillside above the city — suspended between the Karst plateau and the sea — is cut through by the valleys of the so-called torrenti, seasonal waterways that collect and channel rainwater toward the urban plain and the sea. The Rio Martesin marks the border between the districts of Gretta and Roiano, carrying a green tongue deep into the densely inhabited outskirts of the city.
Through the activism of local inhabitants, a large housing development planned on the formerly cultivated dry-stone terraces was successfully prevented. Nevertheless, the hillside remains exposed to ongoing pressures of large-scale construction and real-estate development.

At the furthest green tip, approximately 8,000 square meters of former vineyards and cultivated terraces have slowly returned to wild growth after decades of abandonment. The project unfolds through processes of selective recovery: reopening paths, restoring the dry-stone structures step by step, and building the social constellations necessary for a future collective use of the land.

current state

reconstruction of a 10×3,5m wallsegment