Old factories transformed into innovative and modern hubs, with recreational spaces, parks and green areas accessible to citizens and industrial plants and tanks that become industrial archaeological heritage, a real attraction for tourists. The idea is traced in the projects of the new architects, former students of Dadu, Department of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning of Alghero of the University of Sassari, who participated in the tender "The reconversion, the industrial redevelopment of the areas of the former petrochemical plant of Porto Torres and the revisiting of the industrial landscape". A competition of ideas resulting from the framework agreement between the Provincial Industrial Consortium of Sassari and the Department of Architecture to define strategies and encourage architectural development of an area crossed by over 50 years of industrial history, from the Sir of Rovelli to the settlement by Eni.
At the headquarters of the Industrial Consortium, the presentation and award ceremony of the two working groups who received a check for 5 thousand euros each. The first entitled "La Marinella" composed by architects Roberto Ibba, Giacomo Bua, Anna Di Girolamo, Simone Sanna and Lara Marras who redesigned an area, starting from the water front in which it is intended to create a Marinella urban maritime park, green spaces , cycle paths, buildings used for new functions including social ones and a museum to exhibit the industrial history of Porto Torres, in addition to the redevelopment of the tourist and commercial port. A place where you don't just produce but live in its usable spaces.
More oriented towards the creation of a research center for the university is the second "Radice" project, created by Diego Mazzei and Giulia Demelas, who identified spaces for photovoltaic and agriphotovoltaic systems, a flexible space, a productive forest, green areas and greenhouses, where sustainability and technology can be combined and a circular economy can be promoted, a plan that will give new life to the north-west of Sardinia.
The projects will be incorporated into the territorial master plan that the industrial consortium is rewriting. «The indications provided by the awarded projects will be taken into account to create a new model of more sustainable industrial development and make companies more attractive. This is why the involvement of new generations of students and professionals on issues relating to strategies for the economic development of the territory is fundamental", said the president of Cipss, Valerio Scanu. «The redevelopment of the industrial area of Porto Torres is a topic that concerns the entire North West and as such must be addressed with the contribution of all territorial actors. We considered the collaboration with the University of Sassari and the Department of Architecture to be of great strategic value." A concept shared by the mayors of Porto Torres and Alghero, Massimo Mulas and Mario Conoci, present at the award ceremony together with the director of the Consortium, Salvatore Demontis and the director of the Department of Architecture, Emilio Turco «convinced that similar initiatives will follow the profitable path undertaken».
