Sentina is an abandoned and degraded place between diffuse city ( with four million of inhabitant) situated in Italy west coast. The space dimension of this almost uncontaminated landscape between the city recalls ancient conflicts, provoking attitudes which contrast with some key factors such us the horizontal line, the nature, the sea, historic traces, elements that have maintained their force and integrity in spite of last interventions: the creation of an industrial zone and the construction of a highway.

Our project traces a track of this landscape, a linear axis, a mixture of history and contemporary: a route that highlights the presence of ancient country houses and an axis that ends unavoidably to the sea. Therefore the road as a bi-dimensional entity takes form, transforming into a three-dimensional element, thus becoming a constructed space. Detaching itself from earth, it partly contains a route equipped with mastings, a canal, sporting and playing equipments and partly is characterized as a volume.

As it meets the line of the sea the road bends, transforming into a skyscraper onehundreds fifty meters high, an element which, without any mediation between the space and the surrounding nature, establishes a pure and decisive contrast between horizontal and vertical, between nature and artifice, between ancient and modern, etc… The skyscraper contains lodgings, services, communal and exposition spaces, shops, restaurant .