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La spiaggia al di là della città

competition organised by the municipality of Grado (Italy)

in collaboration with: arch. Elisa C. Cattaneo and Lavinia de Carolis

year : 2019
location : Grado, Italy

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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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