Paesaggi in difesa: narrazioni visuali tra architettura e territorio

Reading the coastal landscape from the towers aims to reconstruct a skillful visual narrative able of reconnecting the towers with each other and linking them to the historical and natural heritage in a relationship of mutual necessity. The research aims to explore a process for visual narration that intends to recover the image of coastal towers in relation to other elements of tangible and intangible heritage and attribute value in the process of cultural identity enhancement, in which, the monument although in ruins represents the link of man with the territory and the symbol of a temporal path. Today the coastal territory of Calabria and Sicily is densely urbanized. A curtain of concrete borders and obstructs the coastline. The oldest perched villages preserve their identity and capacity as cultural attractors, the rural and productive territory draws unprecedented visions. Towers remain isolated, inverting their main function: from sentinels of the gaze they become ruined elements to look at.