The thesis project focused on the area of Cornigliano, a district in the West of Genoa. This part of the city developed in different phases. Before the 1930 the coast used to be a stop of the Grand Tour and was mainly urbanized with villas built by wealthy families of Genoa. After this period an infrastructuring process started first with the railway following the whole Ligurian coast, and then with the industrialization process of Genoa. Cornigliano’s access to the sea was slowly privatized by landfilling in front of it to build the industry; the inhabitants will never have any access to it again and the entire water network flow is made invisible or separated from the urban daily life.