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IT bologna 2019 - competition - honorable mention
TREASURE BOX. The creative push is towards what Einstein calls "space as box". Space as an instrument of individual and community emancipation, which reflects and challenges society to stimulate renewal. In the philosophy of Plato, the cave is a place of passage from the world of things to the world of ideas, a path that allows access to “higher” knowledge.
Boxes that contain objects; boxes that contain other boxes and multiply the container; boxes that open and close; boxes that turn into something else. Design is not a game but allows you to play: with shapes, spaces, materials and colors. What is inside dialogues with what is outside and the cultural relationship between man and nature becomes visible. “Perhaps with all that we have discovered, we end up discovering nature again”. Louis Kahn argues that the miracle of architecture is capable of fulfilling an idea of passage and communication between two realities.. The wall can contract until it becomes a column: a miracle of transparency.
ADDICTIVE / SUBTRACTIVE. Design starts from the idea to start a dialogue with the preexistent building, a relation based on two basilar concepts: complexity and contradiction. Choosing ‘flying’ brassed escalator to connectthe three different levels; Idea was to integrate silently new form hosting different and various public functions without competing with existing building.