Vita : spazio inclusivo e percorrenza

Vita is a municipality in the province of Trapani. Like many inner towns in Sicily, it has suffered from depopulation over the years due to the lack of services and infrastructure, job opportunities, the fragility of the local labor market, economic regression, built environment decay, and the abandonment and depletion of agricultural land. At moment, the city hall and some religious buildings make the old center a place to cross but not a place to live. In this part of the historic city, the land’s orography is characterized by steep slopes, stairways, and curbs. Sometimes, it offers striking glimpses of the surrounding landscape but poses physical barriers to weak users. The effects of the earthquake on the buildings have continued over the years since the catastrophe, to the point of impeding both the viability of some streets in the historic center and the use of houses. This has led the administration to demolish housing units in dangerous structural conditions, thus generating spaces without identity that we might call “urban voids” and losing part of the housing stock. Four themes to solve were identified to design a new vision of mobility, accessibility, greening, and the reappropriation of real estate and public spaces.