The new project required an approach that consisted in re-writing the same however-fragile plots that have continued to preserve the memory of the place, in anticipation of completing new portions of landscape while simultaneously forming mental landscapes in the minds of the children who live there. Walls and empty spaces. The new building forms an enclosure facing south-east, looking over wheat fields and vineyards, embracing and allowing itself to be defined by the features of the landscape. A rough concrete wall is coloured to match the surrounding landscape, treated with split aggregate to reflect light in a variable manner depending on its orientation. The building is its structure: a wall.
A wall that retracts and doubles, colouring itself to emphasize its passages, its thresholds.
Credits
Client: Pederobba municipality
Architects, management and art directors: C+S Associati, Carlo Cappai, Maria Alessandra Segantini
Structures and work supervision: Giandomenico Cocco, Tecnobrevetti s.r.l.
Floor area: 952 m2
Cost: 992.531,00 €
Photography: Carlo Cappai, Alessandra Chemollo
Prizes:
Winner of the honourable mention in the Gold Medal of Italian Architecture 2006
Special Mention in Città di Oderzo Prize 2006
Special Mention in Architettura e Colore Architectural Prize 2008
Text from c+s associati
Images from e-architect
