Paesaggi Forti. Leggere le forme per riconfigurare i ruoli del sistema di fortificazioni dell’Arsenale Militare della Spezia nel paesaggio urbano contemporaneo. Il caso di Marola

The Military Arsenal of La Spezia today occupies a plain a time populated by irreverent springs, the "sprugole", and streams that fed lush vegetation. In 1870 the massive project of General Chiodo imposed substantial changes to the geomorphology of the places and in a few years, thanks to major hydraulic engineering works, two large basins replaced the gardens of the friars and the industrial architectures of the naval base expanded westward up to besiege the ancient village of Marola. Since the focus of the defence system of the Navy has shifted to the south of the country, the landscape heritage of the Military Arsenal of La Spezia is facing a new significant transformation. The risk of jeopardizing its unity in favour of speculative or erosive mechanisms is high. To this political complexity, is added the one of a place that still presents interesting geomorphological features and a military identity, which it is hard to ignore. As part of plans for a sustainable transformation of this piece of the Gulf (Marola), which collects the auspices of citizenship and interpret geomorphological and ecological behaviour of the system it is useful today to investigate the landscape resilience of these places to propose new sustainable uses and create a new landscape.