Beyond the Beach. Italian and croatian adriatic coastal areas

The importance of valorising a community's cultural heritage is inseparable from the dynamics for its fruition. The study focused on a cross-border section encompassing the Italian and Dalmatian coastlines and examined the spatial declinations of new tourism practices with the aim of defining a unique field of experimentation involving different forms, natural and cultural, of environmental heritage. The method is an experimental one, exploiting the use of architectural planning to develop tools for defining suitable spaces to new free time practices. The results illustrate a form of development for local communities in which the valorisation of endogenous resources and the introduction of new, through experimental architecture, can contribute to renewing the meaning of the "cultural heritage": a collection of assets, all but closed, open and dynamic, in perpetual expansion.