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FUNCTIONAL DIVISION

MAIN FACADE

D-D’ SECTION

GROUND FLOOR PLAN FIRST FLOOR PLAN

C-C’ SECTION B-B’ SECTION

EAST FACADE

OPTION 1 (double room) OPTION 2 ( duplex-apartment)

APARTMENT VIEW

A unique experience; three floors entirely dedicated to one of the arts that has indelibly marked the gastronomic culture of the Bel Paese , since the Renaissance period and the time of the guilds that grouped artisans, skills and trades, making it unique and now more than ever a symbol of excellence at world level. An itinerary that reveals the fla-vours and skills that have always filled our tables, interspersed with images, videos, de-scriptive texts with stories and anecdotes of individual products.

Jacques Tatì (1907/1982) - Monsieur Hulot

There is a continuity between human and cultural castiglioni and Tati.

Especially with the character of Monseur Hulot, impassive and dazed, through which the di-

rector proposes an essentially mimic reality. His comedy is mostly visual ( learned from the

masters C.Chaplin and B.Keaton ).

He describes scenes, habits and fears of the average Frenchman who in those years was in-

corporated in a number of new processes of a company with fast rhythms and different beha-

vioral patterns. Castiglioni does not recognize him as a model of filmmaking, as the ability to

use a gentle irony and humor measured to conduct deep research and social criticism by sen-

ding a value that goes beyond the timing and the cultural context, animating things and ma-

terializing behaviors .

Bränden bus stop by Sou Fujimoto

Link with the local landscape Climb to get down

Wear the smoking to go in the river

Distort the reality, suggesting a

natural form.

Use a common language.

Connection with between the two levels

What happen if we merge the light concept of Fujimoto with a local

natural landmark?

yes but...were is the irony?!

In our opinion, connections are a crucial point forthis land, because thei

seems to be real limits. In addiction the roads we find there are old and the

do not take in account al wide range of new needs, came out from the pro-

gress, the real one. So we tryed to analyze this aspect of the territory, en-

lighting the main viary axes and secondary ones. All the smaller streets are

useful just to connect two of the main streets. Any functions or purpose

added to it, if not residence, which next will is going to be the abandon.

Of course the station take part to this study and twists the speed balace of

infrastructure, but also offer easy and fast connection with the world.

Observation on the place really open our mind on the theme of vacuum

spaces. A lot of spaces in this land, are just leftovers from previous inter-

ventions, specially near big infrastructure, and here please imagin what

Mediopadana station did, and on margins of built aggregates. Especailly

the second kind of them, are usually located in good

position, regarding both the landscape relationship and connection with

“centers”.

The great presence of them begin to suggest us the importance of take

them in account during our design process.

This first step immediatly need a schematisation in order to have a clear

idea about municipalities which are in the north of Reggio Emilia and that

included with the lanscape we are studing, or better they shape the lan-

descape in which they are inserted. We also added here the public trans-

portation system to begin studying more deeply how to move inside this

landscape

Agriculture in Pianura Padana rapresents the place under large amount of

aspects:economical, productive, social but what most interested us during

t he project was how much culturally it’s radicated in the place.

Everything rotates around agriculture, and it feeds those people for centu-

ryes and continue to do it. Once as subsistence agriculture and now being

remunerative for local economy.

This difference is also seenable from the map, separating little fields,

which are more linked to personal agriculture and orchards, and are usual-

ly located next to built agregates, from the biggest fields, intended to in-

tensive agriculture.

After noticing and sign this circle the next problem was how to understand the work of this system. A circle for his nature has a center, which is in our case represented

by the Mediopadana station and from Mancasale. It can seems like a secondary theme but

instead is very important for our intervention, the task is now how to conciliate the existing function of the centere whith some other for attractice for people and life?

Attract people in the centre can be done only with attractive spaces and activities.

On the circle the theme is different, how to populate this area in order to have users for stations and collateral activities?

The first step of design process was the observa-tion and the study of the place, and the somminis-tration of the problem. The big station designed by Calatrava created a big problem in the sour-rounding, because this huge monument to pro-gress, in the end become nothing more than a fast passage place. Nothing in the land in safe from it, and from the desolation created around it.But in the visit we understood that not everything was lost, thanks to the big presence of agricultural landscape which is of course the main potential for this place.Even a first view on Even a first view on the map we easily understand how agriculture is more and more taking space going outside the city, creating that landscape so particular and typical. Landscape which every local recongnize as home, and that has his roots in thounsound of years of work and life.

After the definition of a general strategy we ‘ve decided to

better analyze the “stripe” that we consider, dividing it in

three parts which are representative of the common situa-

tion we can find along it. Starting from the nothern part we

show the intervention that is adjoining to existent residen-

tial frame of Bagnolo in Piano.

The common tipology is the semidetached cottage or

small palaces of three, maximum fuor floor.

Our intention is to use the big vacuum space which be-

tween the residential area and the canal, to rich our aim.

The first target is densify the part that is close to the exist-

ent frame giving it a better quality life (spaces, services,

connections) and clearly identify a limit for the building

construction.

The second objective is valorize the landscape, using urban

orchards to make.

ADJOINING THE NOTRTHERN FRAME

DETAILED URBAN PLAN

3D VIEW ( urban orchards and sport activities)

THE SOUTHERN FRAME

3D VIEW ( urban orchards)

DETAILED URBAN PLAN

The first step of design process was the observa-tion and the study of the place, and the somminis-tration of the problem. The big station designed by Calatrava created a big problem in the sour-rounding, because this huge monument to pro-gress, in the end become nothing more than a fast passage place. Nothing in the land in safe from it, and from the desolation created around it.But in the visit we understood that not everything was lost, thanks to the big presence of agricultural landscape which is of course the main potential for this place.EvenEven a first view on the map we easily understand how agriculture is more and more taking space going outside the city, creating that landscape so particular and typical. Landscape which every local recongnize as home, and that has his roots in thounsound of years of work and life.