Vegetable chromosomes

Lapo Ruffi (I)
Antonio Monaci (I)
architects
Vanessa Giandonati (I)
Bernardo Pagnini (I)
Rachele Tanganelli (I)
architects
Agostini Benedetta(I)
student in architecture

Europan 9 Pistoia

winner

In this periurban space, between the city and the country, the landscaper culture becomes the first analysis of the project. With regard to the text of P. Donadieu La société paysagiste, the relationship between society and landscape is noted. Landscape society, like urban society “that carries the values of the community built into a consolidated condition of making a community, of living together in a recognizable space, suitable to new daily practices, to the temporalities that require innovative spatial relations able to form more complex social models”. Life and sustainability of the territory represent the guidelines, through an optimization of natural resources. The high percentage of green is evenly distributed over the area of interest. Architectures in and of the landscape, volumes of horizontal development, recollection of greenhouses and nurseries in continuous dialog with new and old structures, design the profile of the new urban park. Semi-rural architectures and semi-architectural agricultures, like vegetable chromosomes, recall the origin of ancient urban gardens present in a historical city, in a continuous variation of forms, materials, capacities and arboreal essences. Public structures and social housing, interposed among the green zones, distributed in this space of the city, constitute the new physical fragments of the landscape like signs of an event serving the urban society, its mouvance.

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Pistoia

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This project is connected to the following themes

Housing - Community

The development of an urban scale “chromosomal” morphology is an invitation to redesign the shared spaces between these building facades. The emphasis in the project is on the sharing of external spaces, for play, for encounter.

Nature - Hybridity / Juxtaposition

The chromosome shapes the unity of plot in which buildings and agriculture interweave to form a semirural landscape in the spirit of the vernacular city.

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