Kyparissia is a small provincial town in the northeast area of the prefecture country of Messinia. It develops amphitheatrically from the foot of the mountain “Phychro” to the sea. This seafront (approximately 1.7km) is characterized by a variety of morphology - sandy beaches, crags, small creeks and a marina. Instead of what someone is going to expect, this seafront isn’t a part of the citizens’ everyday life, with the exception of summertime period. It appears an image of desolation and abandonment. The lack of some special design and maintenance of the public space, the unformed space of the marina and the municipal land of the southwest extension of the city, the general operational problems of the marina, the absence of infrastructure that could accommodate human activities, are some of the basic issues identified in the research of the area. A city in contract with the sea and simultaneously away from it.

 The recovery effort of this contact is made with terms of urban design. How can the urban fabric be associated with the sea? How is the intermediary border between them formed? Questions of the synthetic search which tries to identify ways of contact between the existing urban infrastructure and the sea (beaches, creeks, marina). Something that once can been made in gentle way, where the natural landscape dominates, and in other occasion more “urban”, where the background has been spoiled by human e.g. the marina. The method of connection with the city through circulation networks (motorways, pedestrian zones, bicycle paths) is being examined too, as it does attempt to limit car circulation. Deeper target of all the interventions is the recovery of the contact with the sea.