Beach resort project - Ventimiglia Fraz. I Balzi Rossi (IM) - 2025 - Process concluded

TYPE: BEACH CLUB

LOCATION: MUNICIPALITY OF VENTIMIGLIA (IM) - BALZI ROSSI

CLIENT: BALZI ROSSI BEACH RESORT BY VERA KOVACS

YEAR: 2025

VOLUME: 350.00 CBM

The project involves the creation of a metal pergola structure, fully demountable and without any characteristics of a permanent construction, intended to provide shade in support of an impermeable fabric canopy and adjustable sun-shading slats, along with a slight reshaping of part of an already existing platform, correcting some limited angular areas.

Currently, the existing beach facility is characterized by a steel structure on footings with a wooden deck whose height above the beach level varies. This difference in level depends on sea storms or environmental conditions, which are often unpredictable.

The beach facility also includes grouped aluminum cabins, umbrellas of varying sizes, and a tensile waterproof fabric structure with tie rods, as well as a bar counter, tables, and chairs. All these elements (see Drawing 02 – photographic documentation) are not well integrated with each other, except for the uniform white color, resulting in a sense of “disorder” in an area of particular value, especially from a landscape perspective due to the uniqueness of the location.

The proposed shading structure aims to unify the integrity of the beach establishment under a single reorganizing element, while maintaining the characteristics of a temporary, lightweight, and “transparent” structure.

The proposed pergola does not alter the outline of the previously authorized platform, following its perimeter; it adapts to the minor modifications of the platform itself (see comparative drawing), improving both functionality (tourist service proposal) and the linearity of the structure (architectural proposal).

The pergola will be composed of box-section metal elements bolted at the base and interlocked at the various connection joints, thus creating a kind of “frame/structure,” finished at the top partly with an impermeable fabric canopy and partly with sun-shading slats (possibly adjustable).

The façades will also consist partly of wooden sun-shading elements, creating a sort of shaded enclosure while maintaining the visual perception of a pergola facing the sea.

The box sections will also be used as a tunnel corridor for technical systems, in order to eliminate or minimize any visible installations.

From a landscape perspective, the asymmetry of the pergola appropriately reflects the existing structure and, in our view, echoes the natural forms of the site, integrating into the context with the utmost respect.