Lesson Learned and Road Map

Abstract

The waning of great transformation ideals based on independent architectural and territorial design gives way to a design capable of seconding the natural dimension, drawing on ecology to imagine living spaces in which nature regains its reference role in the construction of transformation scenarios. City as nature is the title of an issue of Lotus International in 2015: the city will possibly never be nature, but research into design which integrates various scales must be based on the reading and interpretation of the natural elements. This is even truer in the cases and reflections presented in this book, in which the relationship between the river and constructions takes the leading role.