Cattolica Waterfront

This proposal focuses on converting the Rasi-Spinelli waterfront into a constantly new and engaging experiential voyage.

This path was conceived as an archipelago of islands, each hosting a particular thematic story about the Mediterranean. The rhythm of the plan is defined by an interweaving triple sinusoidal geometry that creates diverse forms and defines paths, rest areas and landscaped spaces.

The path intersects eight different islands that define the concept of the sea: strategically positioned inside the path, these elements tell the story of the Mediterranean environment using its characteristic materials, its light, its colours, its flora and the shadowy profile of the trees that are an integral part of the coastal ecosystem. The project maintains three distinct and linear paths for pedestrians, soft mobility and motorised vehicles.

The space dedicated to soft mobility runs alongside the vehicular path: in some cases at grade, in others elevated, it features a regular form and curvatures where it intersects axes running orthogonal to the waterfront. These elements help regulate speeds of travel and ensure safe intersections. The entire path, paved in a pigmented drainable material, is dedicated to the vehicles of new short-range mobility, part of the objective to break free of the seasonal cycle of tourism and focus on the sector of fitness and wellbeing. The pedestrian path offers a natural opening toward the beach. Its dynamic form accompanies pedestrians through the archipelago of islands offering spaces for social activities, moments of pause and events.

The rhythm of the landscape is marked by the geometries of paving, with patterns that expand at points of transit and grow denser in correspondence with the islands. The articulated edge between the footpath and the cycle path hosts landscaped areas that regulate the relationships among the flows moving along the waterfront, however, without establishing the usual “front-back” hierarchy.