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 Giardino dei Parterres
Accademic project
Project developped with Marta Elisa Signorelli
Venice (IT), 2020
The Foscarini and Vendramin garden is one of the many historic gardens that dot the city of Venice. However, there are few of them where it is possible to enter freely, and most of them are linked to historical palaces, today museums and university seats.
Within this scenario, the Foscarini and Vendramin garden represents a fundamental opportunity. The possibility of imagining its reopening to the public and the installation of new functions, is the occasion to give back to the city a series of open spaces with a strong vegetal characterization, in a context built in stone.
The project can be a fundamental part of a larger system of gardens finally accessible, allowing the creation of a circuit of green spaces that can be re-evaluated in their usability and openness to the city.
The objective of the intervention is to reinterpret the signs and characters typical of the historical Venetian garden in order to give a new structure to this place, and to revalue those elements that are hidden, but not completely erased.
The new garden is proposed as a fundamental project in the reintroduction within Venice of what is a type of space that has long defined a characterizing element in the structure of the city, but which today is largely hidden and little known. Through the use of modern elements, the new garden is able to provide inhabitants and visitors with an absolutely indispensable place of rest and pleasure.
We can count about 174 historical gardens in Venice, in which we can recognize particular elements of value.
Current state of the garden.
Giuseppe Filosi (ca. 1730–70). Feast at the Palazzo Foscarini in Honor of the Dukes of
Modena, 3 August 1749, 1751, etching, 353 × 538 mm. Venice, Museo Correr, inv. n. St. Correr 5168.
Archivio Fotografico—Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia.
Concept: new perception of spaces.
Two macro-areas can be recognized: the part of Palazzo Vendramin, which is the point where the historical elements can be re-proposed in a new key, and the part of Palazzo Foscarini, where new types of spaces are planned to introduce new activities and functions.
The project.
