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Hewn out of solid rock
“Let the stone be taken from the quarry two years before building is to begin, and not in winter, but in summer. Then let it lie exposed in an open place. Such stone as been damaged by the two years of exposure should be used in the foundations. The rest, which remains unhurt, has passed the test of nature and will endure in those parts of the building which are above ground.” Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
The island in province of La Spezia was home to the exclusive and now dismissed quarries of Portoro, a 200 million years old black marble featured by yellow-gold veins.
We imagined extracting a block of this natural stone from the rock mountain and transforming it into a Campus house with more than 25 rooms, 60 places, cafe' and dining hall.
The extraction left metaphorically room for a second building inside the mountain, which we adapted as museum and art centre where visitors, like old miners used to do, move at different levels throughout a series of consecutive spaces.
The island in province of La Spezia was home to the exclusive and now dismissed quarries of Portoro, a 200 million years old black marble featured by yellow-gold veins.
We imagined extracting a block of this natural stone from the rock mountain and transforming it into a Campus house with more than 25 rooms, 60 places, cafe' and dining hall.
The extraction left metaphorically room for a second building inside the mountain, which we adapted as museum and art centre where visitors, like old miners used to do, move at different levels throughout a series of consecutive spaces.
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