Cagliari is a city that is born, grows, and develops in harmony and symbiosis with the natural elements that surround and belong to it. It is part of a complex ecosystem rich in interconnecting, dialoguing, and complementary environments that integrate with the built structure. The city opens like a window between the sea and the countryside, in a miraculous alternation of land and water that generates perspectives and landscapes with sometimes fantastic colors.

The city is nestled among white hills of bare limestone, verdant pines, and clear bodies of water. Its streets wind through wetlands, green hills, colorful salt pans, and white sandy beaches.

This strong landscape imprint influences and inspires the entire project, requiring an increasingly stronger dialogue between architecture and landscape. Hence the need for architecture that cannot remain closed within itself, but one that can integrate with the surrounding environment, shaped by the dominant force of the wind in an alternation of curves and right angles, plastic and rigid forms in search of compositional balance.

It is precisely next to this complex system that the intervention finds its existence, immersed in an urban context closely linked to the aforementioned natural features from which it cannot be separated, rejecting the surrounding built forms that belong to a now outdated era.

Natural elements traverse the entire project, from aesthetics to the choice of materials, from textures to construction technologies. The building, in this sense, is a reflection of the form and substance of the surrounding landscape, which is why even the choice of finishes aims to blur the perception of the boundary between architecture and nature as much as possible. Four main materials characterize the intervention and imprint the project's connection to the place: White Limestone, Wood, Plaster, and Glass.

Limestone, typical of the construction of Cagliari and the hills of Tuvixeddu and San Bartolomeo, known as Pietra Forte Cagliaritana, will cover the building's envelope, emphasizing the project's connection to the city.

Wood, primarily chosen to cover the sails on the main façade, is a clear reference to the natural element of tree bark, evoking the large pines that cover the nearby Monte Urpinu hill.

The coarse-grained plaster, with a sandy texture, recalls the nearby Poetto beach and will envelop the cylindrical columns that conceal the vertical connection systems within them, which are the core and pivot of the entire project.

Finally, Glass, with its transparency, echoes the crystalline bodies of water and, when softened with greenish hues, recalls the changing tones of the nearby salt pans.

The common thread that has marked the entire design process, Nature, has ultimately also dictated the choice of technological solutions. Innovative technological components integrate into the sustainable vision of the project. Both private and shared spaces will be served by the most modern systems that will ensure the building is classified as an nZEB (Near Zero Energy Building).