Learning to Multiply Analysis article by Miriam García García (ES) — PhD in Architecture, landscape architect & urban designer www.landlab.es/en/
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The sites in this group are large in relation to their
“SOFT BUFFERS”
contexts, and include a wide variety of agents, human
is not about introducing new uses but about catalysing
and non-human, with long and short-term cycles, as
new relationships between the existing ones, by turning
well as long-reaching ecological, economical and
the borders into intermediate landscapes for sharing.
territorial implications. Multiplying agencies implies
It is about permitting different flows to work together in
working with the relations, processes, flows and multiple
a productive way while maintaining their differences.
forces related to the site. In this context, adopting a
The city of Nin (HR) is located in a lagoon on the
broader system perspective means that spatial limits
Eastern part of the Adriatic Sea, and is surrounded by
must be extended and abstracted so that they reinforce
natural sandy beaches (fig. 1). Four entities co-exist on
an agreed division between what is human — t he
the site, each with their own characteristics and without
society and its culture — on the one hand, and what is
a productive relationship. There is the old town on Nin,
nature — the ecosphere — on the other. The temporal
the settlement of Ždrijac with coastal flooding effects
limits must also be extended to match the spatial
due to climate change, and an old brickyard next to
limits. This socioecological perspective applied to the
the saltworks.
productive city implies designing strategies that are able to catalyse new agencies around the site based on its synergies. This design-thinking approach leads to the integration of both social and ecological values into the design and into the management. In order to activate synergies and to change the sites metabolism into a more balanced and productive one the E15 winning projects deploy various fertile strategies.
1 — NIN (HR) > SEE MORE P.50
2 — NIN (HR), WINNER — SOFT BUFFERS > SEE MORE P.51