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.
Le Torri dell'Appia
Unbuilt project
Project developped with Giorgia Cino, Giorgia Margherita Semeraro, Laura Antelmi,
Annalisa Zaccaria, Antonio Melcore during the Residence Programme "Appia2030"
Via Appia (BR), 2022
The Torri dell'Appia project has been developed as part of the Appia 2030 Residencies programme, a territorial valorisation process promoted by MediAree and curated by Bellissimo and Torinostratosferica, which aims to support the candidature of the historic route of the Appian Way in its Apulian section as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The final objective is the drafting of a series of design interventions to be placed along the route of the Appian Way, in the final stretch from Francavilla Fontana to Brindisi, passing through Oria, Latiano and Mesagne. Interventions that take on the character of landmarks, of objects placed in the territory capable of adding attractive and qualifying values and drawing a route that is currently hidden, traceable only through historical memories.
Starting from the suggestion of the ancient watchtowers that still dot the Apulian territory, the proposed landmark becomes the reference point that rises above a typically flat landscape, reinterpreting its identifying features: the colour of the olive trees, the potential of the wind, the materials of the land.
Arranged along the route and declining from time to time according to the function they are to perform, the towers fulfil the task of orientation devices, of garrison and security, of activity generators.
The project prototype is the watchtower, on which it is possible to climb and embrace the surrounding landscape with one's gaze. Arranged on several levels and with a wooden structure, it uses its architectural components to evoke the characteristic elements of olive trees: in the colours of the panels that move and produce sounds with the passage of the wind, as well as in the typical twisting of the trunk with the course of the bracing.
A landscape built by olive trees and watchtowers.
The watchtower.
