This research offers a non-traditional, investigative exploration of the coastal landscapes of the Grosseto floodplain, nestled in Italy’s Maremma region. Blending storytelling with critical insight, this multidisciplinary research intertwines theory and practice through a diverse account of personal experiences, documentary methodologies, and material explorations. At the heart of this analysis on the natural architecture of landscape and its history lies a phenomenological engagement with the territory and its resources, nurtured and deepened through close collaboration with local professionals and associations.
Extending this practice of humble observation and deep engagement into further case studies — attending to both the particular and the universal —, could create new frameworks for a richer understanding of the interwovenness of the living and non-living, and of the natural and the cultural dynamics of any place, ultimately fostering more conscious architectural practices and regenerative ways of tending to both land and life.
