In the meantime, we need to make it a square. Now it's a parking lot. First question: where do we put the cars?
Largo Cavallerizza is not enough. We make it three floors (underground).
The other parking lot seems far away.
The budget would certainly not be enough for this work as well.
We leave it as an idea. We also move the newsstand in Largo Cavallerizza. Let us now think of the square.
There is a protagonist in this Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II (which everyone calls Piazza S. Giustino): the Cathedral. The bell tower stands out; appears to have been forcefully rotated from its natural axis to open the door to the cathedral. We find the rotation axis. This is the basis of the composition of the square. It is its substance.
There are no others. That's it. Only in this way can we tell a bit of history and interpret the sense of the place without making literature in relation. We want the interior of this arch to be white (trani stone). The porphyry exterior that binds with the rest of the existing city pavement. We will mark the geometries in brass, so that the square can be drawn through the light of the reflected sun. And at night? No light from above. No tricks. From above only the moon. We from below ... we are men and mortals, but we know and handle science and technology. LED. Led only. Nice scene. Good lighting (we put a thousand). Low maintenance (you can dance on it). They can change color. And the facade of the Municipality? If it were properly restored it wouldn't be bad. Then we don't fully cover it. A curved glass wall (the Administration wants it to be transparent). The crystal is rigid, transparent and fragile, like public life and perhaps like everyone's life. This too changes color and projects what is happening inside the palace outside.
A message of democracy.
Realization: 2009
Client: Municipality of Chieti
Category: Landscape
Place: Italy
