The international competition of ideas called “SGF – Youth Area at the Border” is an important step in the process of the transformation of the former Hospital area of Gorizia. Specifically represents a milestone in the development of a strategic plan that can affect the urban and territorial planning of Italy and Slovenia and the subsequent planning and operational phases that will follow the competition in the most appropriate manner. The competition of ideas is, in fact, a unique opportunity for reflection and experimentation over the city and territory, for the possibility of creating social and economic opportunities and over the definition of a strong identity capable of receiving different content, both in the present and in the future. ObjectiveDesigners are invited to develop a strategic plan with a level of detail appropriate to the urban scale and to the subsequent need to prepare a planning instrument for the implementation. At the same time the definition of architectural elements is required, meant as open spaces such as buildings, able to describe and characterize the surroundings and, at the same time, experimenting with new approaches in qualitative, functional, performing and connecting terms between buildings destined also to different uses. The relationship between landscape and architectural work Is important.

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