Architetto
Nuovo Ponte sul Piave
Nuovo Ponte sul Piave
Competition, 2020 - 2nd prize
Project developped with 120grammi :: laboratorio di architettura and W.E.I’N Venice srl
Competition, 2020 - 2nd prize
Project developped with 120grammi :: laboratorio di architettura and W.E.I’N Venice srl
The project for the new bridge in Belluno comes from the need to find a definitive form for the current bridge, which crosses the Piave river, built in 2007 as a temporary solution, but which has proved to be a fundamental link for the city and the surrounding territory.
The new intervention, with all its infrastructural declinations, acts as a multiplier device for access to the river, to the parking areas, to the city and to the two banks. A bridge-system that can be crossed both longitudinally and transversally, but above all a device that fits in and reorders the urban and territorial materials present.
The project aims to investigate and reflect on the theme of infrastructure as an element that participates in the construction of the landscape in which it is inserted. Not as a purely functional component, but rather as an artefact to which it is possible to attribute an intrinsic aesthetic value and recognisability.
The identification of those features that define the river landscape in question has made it possible to reuse them as structural elements of the image of the new bridge. In fact, it will be the riverbed that will constitute its strong identity: the points of support are nothing more than the emergence of the river itself, which rises to support the structure that delicately rests on it.
The bridge represents the synthesis of careful research into the reading and interpretation of the place, resulting in a design proposal that makes the landscape an infrastructure, and the infrastructure a landscape.
The project for the new bridge in Belluno comes from the need to find a definitive form for the current bridge, which crosses the Piave river, built in 2007 as a temporary solution, but which has proved to be a fundamental link for the city and the surrounding territory.
The new intervention, with all its infrastructural declinations, acts as a multiplier device for access to the river, to the parking areas, to the city and to the two banks. A bridge-system that can be crossed both longitudinally and transversally, but above all a device that fits in and reorders the urban and territorial materials present.
The project aims to investigate and reflect on the theme of infrastructure as an element that participates in the construction of the landscape in which it is inserted. Not as a purely functional component, but rather as an artefact to which it is possible to attribute an intrinsic aesthetic value and recognisability.
The identification of those features that define the river landscape in question has made it possible to reuse them as structural elements of the image of the new bridge. In fact, it will be the riverbed that will constitute its strong identity: the points of support are nothing more than the emergence of the river itself, which rises to support the structure that delicately rests on it.
The bridge represents the synthesis of careful research into the reading and interpretation of the place, resulting in a design proposal that makes the landscape an infrastructure, and the infrastructure a landscape.
Il Bordo Spesso
Accademic project
Project developped with Marta Elisa Signorelli
Venice (IT), 2020
The Island of Certosa, in the venetian lagoon, can be considered the first point of contact for the city of Venice to a more rural and natural world. Right now, several areas present a strong wild character, in contrast with others that are built and defined. The project proposed aims to valorise the relation between land and water and restore a fundamental connection with the surrounding landscape.
To do that, the project takes place along the portion of the island’s boundary where it’s possible to introduce new typologies of spaces and elements that establish a new idea of thick border. The historical wall, which surrounds the island and defines the division between the island itself and the lagoon, becomes the element to play with in order to generate a sequence of spaces that create multiples experiences to embrace the landscape. If sometimes the presence of the wall permits to concentrate the attention to the inner island, other times his absence allows to live the surface of the water as public space.
The project is part of a bigger general design foreseen for the island of Certosa, in which large functional sectors are identified: urban, peri-urban, agricultural and natural. These sectors are adapted to the current uses of the island, related to the present naval activities and its use as a park. The identified areas are the active background of the new board path, which crosses them and with which it enters in relation.
The project is composed by three main elements: the green rooms, the piers and the descents to water.
Particular attention is given to the choice and the placement of the vegetation, especially for the big trees that are distributed along the border. Those elements will permit to create a strong landscape identity, that will finally insert the Island of Certosa inside the territory where itbelongs.
The relations of Isola della Certosa with the venetian lagoon.
Perception of the borders analysis.
Naval border.
Spontaneous border.
Strategic masterplan.
Il bordo spesso.
