Sell local to (un)locals

competition: Set foot in Sittard Competition

Location: Sittard, The Netherlands

Team Melita: Prisca Arosio, Vittoria Rossi

Organizer: Phidias Community Cooking

program: redevelopment of the city center

Exhibition/Awards with Workshop: 25th-26th Feb

2015 - 2016

Sittard is located in a strategic place, in between Germany and Belgium and on the wya of the highway N276. Because of this reasons, there is a high possibility to increase the number of tourists going to Sittard, they can play a central role in the urban redevelopment.

Therefore, the project want to bring back the idea of Sittard as a specialized city, for local people and for tourists. We are proposing to implement the number of specialized shops owned by local people. In this way Sittard citizens can create a strong community and tourists would be more attracted by local products, typical of Sittard or the whole region of Limburg.

Moreover, a conceptual and graphical strip connects the existence with new designed areas. These spaces become small public spaces for relaxing and enjoying; it crosses the center from the train station to the Market Square embracing the city life in an unique identity. The strip enters in the vacant shops bringing new activities that become generators for the whole redevelopment, organized into four “action phases”.