Surveying the material and immaterial qualities of a shared urban landscape. Flows of users in transit in a contemporary Adriatic city

The contribution presents the final results of a path, between research and teaching, which concerns the representation of the material and immaterial aspects of an urban sector of a university city. The interpretative keys of the transformation processes of an urban landscape of the Adriatic coast are proposed. The study concerns the university district of the city of Pescara (Abruzzo, Italy) – close to the centenary since its foundation in 1927 – crossed by an articulated system of flows of users in transit. The contribution aims to illustrate an analysis and documentation supported by the multiple identity dimensions of the Drawing and the Representation. The documentation of the material and ephemeral aspects that characterize these shared places – through multidisciplinary theoretical-­operational methods inclusive of the photographic medium in all surveying phases -­ makes it possible to identify and represent some interesting specificities. The main objective of the study is to define several aspects of the identity of this complex architectural and environmental system creating certain sequences captured by walking through and surveying these areas.