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LA SPIAGGIA AL DI LA' DELLA CITTA'

with Elisa C. Cattaneo

competition organised by the Municipality of Grado (GO), 2019

L’enquête philosophique, archéologique et anthropologique montre clairement 
que la pensée primitive était basée 
sur l’expérience de l’espace..... ass
ociée à
des souvenirs émotionnels. (…)

M. Jammer,  Concepts of space. The history of theories of space in physics, Cambridge, Harvard university press, 1954.
 

The project is defined as a huge work of contemporary land art. As a land art project is aimed to be completetly lived by the inhabitant and it has to be considered as an immersive public space, where the visitor can experiment a new use of a public space, of a beach and with a completely new way of whatching at the seaside’s landscape. 

As a land art project, it starts with the designing rules of nature and it interpreets it following and hybridisation with an imagined new story of the space: as an upside-down archeology. As archeology, the project reveals primigenial elements: the topography (the rocks), the nature (the  pine grove), the culture (the paved soil), that are all able to generate a new urban geography. 
The main topic of the project is therefore focused on themes that have been abandoned by modernity and by the common sense about the project of a public space: the memory, the archeology of a space, the time, the mistery. As it were in searching for a new designing taxonomy not focused on the logic and analogical but on the symbolic and metaphorical. In this sense, following also the researches by Max Jammes, it becomes a sensorial and immersive space. 

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