A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Plaza y Mirador en Toledo
DESCRIPTIVE MEMORY: The project of the new public building in Toledo supports some basic critical points, transforming them into a resource to re-establish a rich open-space, its history and architectonic values. _Limits as a resource and peculiarity. The minimum space, labyrinth of streets and presences, with very few accessibility and relationships with the environment, is the protagonist of the project. We worked on the idea of the Material Resistance, given by traces, architectures, limits, which defines, in different grade of hardness, the own forms of the space they create and of the memory that constitutes it. _ Relative distances among things. We focus on the Relation as conceptual strategy and on a deeper tissue of relative distances. This means to constitute a dialogue between the building and the urban system, full and empty, private and public, past and present, which develops in no-univocal ways. The identity of the place can emerge and speak without forcing; the habitant always has a choice. PROJECTUAL CHOICES The siting of the building is all fixed within the space of the existing lot that overlooks the square, to complete the curtain wall construction: it is not imposed an arbitrarily and strong sign on an already rich tissue; we exploited the area suggested by the competition, supporting the challenge of keeping in it all that is necessary, as the first important choice. This forces to work on a small scale, on the detail, on the measured solution, at the scale of architecture. The game created by the dimensional needs allows the formation of complex spaces and calibrated. It becomes necessary to excavate below the square; is under the public land that the model is located, at the centre of a scenic area: from public land (+0:00 contemporary), we look to the historical city (-3.24 mt), as a descent around the memory, personal and collective. The zero is the indoor public place (with info-point and vertical connections), which ensures continuity between the ground of the square (an entry platform ...
Plaza y Mirador en Toledo
DESCRIPTIVE MEMORY: The project of the new public building in Toledo supports some basic critical points, transforming them into a resource to re-establish a rich open-space, its history and architectonic values. _Limits as a resource and peculiarity. The minimum space, labyrinth of streets and presences, with very few accessibility and relationships with the environment, is the protagonist of the project. We worked on the idea of the Material Resistance, given by traces, architectures, limits, which defines, in different grade of hardness, the own forms of the space they create and of the memory that constitutes it. _ Relative distances among things. We focus on the Relation as conceptual strategy and on a deeper tissue of relative distances. This means to constitute a dialogue between the building and the urban system, full and empty, private and public, past and present, which develops in no-univocal ways. The identity of the place can emerge and speak without forcing; the habitant always has a choice. PROJECTUAL CHOICES The siting of the building is all fixed within the space of the existing lot that overlooks the square, to complete the curtain wall construction: it is not imposed an arbitrarily and strong sign on an already rich tissue; we exploited the area suggested by the competition, supporting the challenge of keeping in it all that is necessary, as the first important choice. This forces to work on a small scale, on the detail, on the measured solution, at the scale of architecture. The game created by the dimensional needs allows the formation of complex spaces and calibrated. It becomes necessary to excavate below the square; is under the public land that the model is located, at the centre of a scenic area: from public land (+0:00 contemporary), we look to the historical city (-3.24 mt), as a descent around the memory, personal and collective. The zero is the indoor public place (with info-point and vertical connections), which ensures continuity between the ground of the square (an entry platform ...
Plaza y Mirador en Toledo
Pasquale Mei (author) / Anna Arioli (author) / Eugenio Certosino (author) / Domenico Rapuano (author) / Mei, Pasquale / Arioli, Anna / Certosino, Eugenio / Rapuano, Domenico
2009-01-01
Miscellaneous
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
720
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