It is indisputable that when the destination of the trip to Sardinia was part of the Grand Tour, the quality of the landscape was certainly different. Today the aggression of mass tourism, one of the effects of globalization, has produced wealth but also indiscriminate abuse on the landscape and also on the beauty of the city and villages. Rediscovering the genius of the place through the reinterpretation of the traditional style by translating those architectural types, those materials, those construction systems that make that place that place, is the main theme of this work.

The project is configured as a complete redevelopment of the center of the town of San Teodoro, a tourist resort on the Costa Smeralda, in the

north-east of Sardinia. The main attraction of San Teodoro is its territory, its much less attractive landscape, its village has developed in a disorderly way around the

primary and recognizable nucleus around the main church. The lack of readability of the city means that it confuses the public with the private, public buildings with residential buildings, public spaces and private spaces with low urban density.

The project begins with the design of the lots to be reconnected around the main square, which involves the demolition of the Town Hall, an ugly

60-year-old building, with a grid of streets that connects the various lots completed by residential and commercial buildings with the urban infill technique. the project uses types with traditional materials and constructions.

The landscape , Thiene and ex Nordera building

Thiene is part of a landscape modified by man since the thirteenth century, the modified landscape

from the man is the one where ".... the man intervenes modifying the ground, but without an

overall and total design. The forms of regular fields and their confinement  are part of it.

Ditches and drainers that drain the waters and lead them to the streams, the fields appear regular and

almost “combed”, the rows of vines are aligned parallel and the landscape assumes geometric shapes.

Natural forms are regularized where possible. The borders are regular and partly curved.

We recognize the combination of large spots with regular margins and  curvilinear elements

, large rectilinear elements pass through it: rows, roads ... "In the former Nordera area there is still some trace of this age-old attitude.

Rediscover the passage of the Rozzola, which comes from Carrè to join after the church of

San Rocco, with the Roggia of Thiene, and that in its becoming crosses the open space of the area

ex-Nordera, will bring the charm of water back to the city.