2004
Schio
The work that was attempted to carry out was not to paint particular expressions in a face or equip it with a beautiful mask, but to clean this face from possible masks that already has to find the true vision, the soul. This was the starting point of our project strategy: try to develop as much as possible what the place already has inside itself and that still does not express, somehow promote its growth in respect of what is already, Aware that a project will not only interpret the latent lines of development and relationship, but that it will superimpose on them an additional system of forces that will produce new deformations to the membrane-territory, in line with the new growth needs. In the design we have tried to follow a conception of the architectural work not as overlapping an element on the landscape, but as an organism that is born from the landscape and interacts with it. This organism, having its own “structure” and “density”, develops a dialogue with its place, modifying it almost naturally, embracing it with vibrations and movements. While highlighting the character of the new settlement, the visual impact is minimal, softened and mitigated by the green embrace. We studied a distribution of spaces in order to give them the greatest possible flexibility and autonomy, while safeguarding the formal unity and composition of the project.
