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Il Paesaggio come Teatro (concorso)

The site is dissonant, with critical points. There has been a loss of landscape. Design the space to let the landscape come alive; humans participate as both actors and spectators. The landscape as theater; places as successive stage sets.

Project

Intervention Areas and Motivations for Design Choices

The Bardonecchia Viaduct. The highway access interchange to the town. The square in front of the Tunnel entrance.

The site is dissonant, with critical points. There has been a loss of landscape. Design the space to bring the landscape to life; people engage as both actors and spectators. The landscape as theater; places as successive stage sets:

  • Curtain (viaduct)
  • Understory (interchange)
  • Sky (square).

Objectives and Specific Characteristics of the Proposals

The Viaduct – CURTAIN

An element in metallic fabric with irregular flying arches rests on the ground, positioned in front of the existing structure. A fluorescent neon tube traces the skyline of the Alpine arc.

Aesthetic-Visual Objectives: Creation of a strongly scenographic element.
Functional Objectives: Reduction of noise and light pollution.

The Interchange – UNDERSTORY

Landscape and Environmental Integration of the roundabout and traffic medians through environmental art interventions and irregular arrangements of trunks and branches. A manganese oxide wash on the stone cladding of the retaining walls.

Aesthetic-Visual Objectives: A unified intervention for chromatic and environmental integration, with evocative installations.

The Square – SKY

Dual Perceptual Scale: panoramic and aerial view; close-up and detailed visual perception.

A green sky, a “pergola,” is created with pairs of galvanized steel cables supported by poles, from which planters containing climbing Hedera helix (ivy) are suspended, forming a large-scale feature visible from above.

Close-up and Detailed Visual Perception: at the lower level, two illuminated “blankets” made of colored elements supported by an overhead substructure envelop the undersides of the canopy at the tollbooth and the former customs building. The existing buildings in the square and the retaining walls on the uphill side serve as supports for a scenic backdrop, partially constructed in wood and partially with translucent panels embedded with pressed autumn leaves.

Functional Objectives:

  • Containment and reduction of light and noise emissions.
  • Reduction of noise pollution through the use of sound-absorbing barriers and asphalt.