Pumping new blood into obsolete buildings in fragile territories> Leisure & Hospitality: two mixed-use projects for Olbia (Italy) and Sanya (China), at the frontier of teaching, researching and professional design.

This paper introduces, in a textual and graphic diagrammatic mode, the comparative study of the generative process of two architectural and landscape projects which share compositional logic, technological choices and morphological approaches, as employed in the functional and spatial re-use of buildings left abandoned by the disruptive action of aggressive mass tourism onto environmentally fragile areas. The two projects explore the transition between theoretical speculation, teaching themes in university Design Studios and potentially direct applications into the professional realm. Developed between 2012 and 2016, they concern two island sites prompted by complex functional programs pivoting around a mix of leisure and hospitality, Capo Ceraso Hub, in Olbia (Italy) and Sky Court Leisure Center in Sanya (China)