100sqm between sky and sea - reTHINKING ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION
“Walking presupposes that at every step the world changes in some aspect and also that something changes in us”. I.Calvino
The intention is to preserve the actual aspect of usability of this place.
The bidimensional object (platform), where the third dimension is the landscape, is a privileged viewpoint (the extension of the Pulpit Rock). The vertigo up the rock is amplified. Surrounded by the landscape we are linked with the nature.
The platform is designed with a human scale, for measure the landscape.
The reflection about the project starts from several considerations about the possibility to realize a structure that isn’t invasive in a uncontaminated and singular contest. The intention is to preserve the actual aspect of usability of this place, with a minimum intervention that no changes the geo-morfologic characteristic and the actual view of the nature and the landscape.
Nature -
Not only a viewpoint but more points of view. The landscape is inside the building; the building is part of it (an extension of it). The no-building is a bidimensional object, where the third dimension is represented by the landscape. It’ s a privileged viewpoint. It represents the extension of the Pulpit Rock. The vertigo up the rock is amplified. Surrounded by the landscape we are linked with the nature. A mystical place for meditation, that permits to open mind.
Scale -
The platform is a way to measure the landscape. It’s designed with a human scale. A reference with human scale is necessary in a place with super-human scale. The human scale permits to have a real idea about the giant scale of this place. The known dimension of the platform permits to have a reference. It’s 100 square meters, that represents a typical domestic house dimension (medium footprint dimension). It is a reference for understand better the power and the greatness of the nature. The architecture disappear in a place like this. In this way the architecture is dissolved for be part of the nature and vice-versa.
Limit -
The border in this case isn’t a limit but an opportunity. The topography allows us to perceive the landscape in an unusual way, with a vertigo sensation. At the same time the building is located in an unusual place, he climbed up on the rock. It disappears into the landscape, through the large glass surfaces that dematerialize it. Designed as a space limit, indoor / outdoor, permeable and adaptable to the seasons (open in summer and closed in winter).
