2004
Siena
Concorso di Progettazione
In the design of the new municipal stadium, special attention was paid to give the architectural body a strong emotional impact and attraction, while respecting the surrounding area. The building does not impose itself in the landscape, but develops a dynamic and vigorous dialogue with the natural episodes that surround it, characterized by the elegant movements of soft hills in a morphology among the most suggestive of the Tuscan territory. 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. As for a rock lying on the scree of a river, the bottom takes shape naturally around it by the flow of water that lambs it, so it was thought to develop the tension of the natural landscape around the stadium, Starting from the action of those flows that make it an architectural machine capable of performing its functions.
