CONCORSI E LAVORI IN PROGRESS

Rwanda Chapel - Architecture, Landscape and Meditation

The Architecture of the monastery generates a system of relations on the site. An invisible grid integrates all the architectonical interventions in a plan, thus creating a mediation between architectural intervention and the landscape. The Monastry, the New Chapel, all paths and ways around it and any further functional space finds through it his own role, position, and proportion. The new chapel is parto fit, and will expand and complete the experience in a mediation with the landscpe.

Con Francesco Librizzi

Reuse of the Lake Chapel along the Via Francigena

Landscape First! Our proposal is configured as a constellation of episodes attracted by the Renaissance beauty of the Church of S. Giovanni in Val di Lago. We have conceived a new landscape, sometimes submerged and sometimes emerging, that would honor the octagonal icon and the natural context that surrounds it. The consecrated church receives worshippers, pilgrims, visitors and spectators who come to enjoy the uniqueness of that place, and our will is to design a place that can be active all year round and that is configured as a silent infrastructure that can be adapted to celebratory needs as well as to popular festivals, to concerts as well as to spiritual retreats. The new landscape is oriented on a main east-west axis so as to clearly identify the main entrance to the Chapel, but then spreads freely over the entire project area to emphasize the freedom of movement inherent in the nature of the rural settlements and the fields that surround them. The auditorium for conferences, concerts and open-air cinema, the pilgrims' lodgings, the equipped and common spaces, the bicycle parking, the areas dedicated to cultural and artistic events, are spread throughout the project area in order to ensure an appropriate relation distance/reciprocity and to constitute a unitary whole but also a small varied world, a playground for the mind. The choice to make the artifacts almost invisible and tied to the earth restores the original prestige to the Church and urges the pilgrim to a personal search and a sequence of discoveries according to a path of its own and not a pre-established way. The restoration of the Church of St. Giovanni in Val di Lago proposes to touch as little as possible the original wall and approaches it with a light internal metal structure that generates first an intermediate level, a sort of micro-auditorim, theater or floating choir, and then a precious circular copper roof detached from the curb completion and buffered by simple glass that follow the inside of the octagonal perimeter. We wanted to propose in this way a walkable internal canopy that allows you to explore even vertically the ancient walls decorated by the elegant arches.Our project is therefore a simple topographical modification that can accommodate worshippers and pilgrims and can also be realized for additions over the years

Thanks to Xiaoyu Li & Yihe Chen

Novecentopiùcento

Oltre al collegamento all’attacco a terra, grazie al disegno della pavimentazione dello spazio nel mezzo dei due corpi Arengari, il progetto prevede la possibilità di un ulteriore collegamento aereo attraverso l’uso di un dispositivo mobile orizzontale. Questo tipo di dispositivo permette di collegare i corpi di fabbrica alla quota del piano Secondo Ammezzato, in modo tale da preservare la vista prospettica che da Piazza delDuomo guarda verso la Torre Martini. Il nuovo collegamento aereo per non recare alcun danno fisico e visivo non si inserisce all’interno delle due torri degli Arengari, bensì è collocato in secondo piano rispetto a Piazza del Duomo e collega i due corpi difabbrica laterali alle due torri: partendo dall’annesso tra il Primo Arengario e la Manica Lunga e sbarcando nel corpo intermedio tra il Secondo Arengario e i Portici mengoniani. Questo dispositivo, pensato come un ascensore orizzontale, è uno spazio espositivo mobile che permette la visione pubblica di opere d’arte anche dalla Piazza del Duomo.

Con Francesco Librizzi