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Play up! Play up! And play the game!
Type
Hospitality + Sport ›
Restaurant
Bar/Nightclub
Wellness/Spa
Movie Theater
Information Center
Sports Center
Amusement Park
Cultural › Gallery Cultural Center
Educational › Nursery Elementary School Library
Government + Health › Community Center
Landscape + Planning › Public Park Playground Urban Green Space
Cultural › Gallery Cultural Center
Educational › Nursery Elementary School Library
Government + Health › Community Center
Landscape + Planning › Public Park Playground Urban Green Space
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Concept
Crossing the threshold of the current doorway placed along the front of the cyma moulding, one reaches the original entrance, which opens on a barrel-vault entrance hall. Having passed the hall, one enters an astonishing landscape where wild vegetation covers the vast open space and the Fort’s sloping walls.
The state of abandonment made the Fort evolve into a natural oasis where a great diversity of animals can find refuge; a green lung of pulsating life that must be made available to the public.
The project is meant to control the vegetation in the area by careful pruning, in order to clear the passages and the ramps on the upper and lower ramparts, while preserving the solid landscape.
Walkable paving, which will be photovoltaic, will cover the Piazza d’Armi and supply the whole Fort with energy.
The wide-open space of the Piazza will become a catalyst of energy and will attract activities, producing the sufficient amount of energy necessary to set in motion the elements placed on it.
Imagine a peaceful siege of the Fort, where an active citizenry takes possession of a characterising part of the area to overturn its paradigm: war turns into a game.
While the signifier remains the same, the meaning turns upside down. The fortifications, structured to be unassailable, are conquered by the citizenry and transformed into places devoted to relaxation and entertainment.
Like during a barricade, from the parterre of Piazza d’Armi, provisional structures will emerge, whose features remind the viewer of the ancient sighting turrets. But in this case, they will support screens that project open-air films. Consequently, the sloping walls will be used for climbing activities and the Trojan horse as a game for children, for example.
In compliance with the competition announcement and conforming to the constraints to which the Forte Portuense is subjected, all the interventions in Area 2 are to be considered provisional and/or removable.
Inside the Fort, numerous and diversified activities come in succession, but they can be summed up in two areas: a wellness area (athletic circuit, spa, massage and relaxing areas, wine bar-restaurant) and a didactic-cultural one (newspaper and periodical library, multimedia library, laboratories, polyvalent rooms, exhibition areas). These areas are conceived in such a way to support the citizenry but mainly to encourage a larger touristic base to visit the Fort located in this historical, though remote area, relative to the old town centre. Along these lines, the fortified ring can be rethought to make the suburban areas more attractive and to suggest an alternative track to the capital’s better-known touristic destinations.
Services for the neighbourhood, such as kindergartens, senior and community centres will remain situated outside the grounds of the Fort, but will be merged on the South-East side of the hill, so that they can clear the area between Via Portuense and Via Irlandesi and make it a public park.
The logic behind the buildings is the formal one of the fortification. Some places and the connective elements are hypogeum, while the classrooms and the meeting rooms stick out of the hill’s profile partly built on the northern front to return an image of the surrounding that could be faithful as much as possible to the original.
The state of abandonment made the Fort evolve into a natural oasis where a great diversity of animals can find refuge; a green lung of pulsating life that must be made available to the public.
The project is meant to control the vegetation in the area by careful pruning, in order to clear the passages and the ramps on the upper and lower ramparts, while preserving the solid landscape.
Walkable paving, which will be photovoltaic, will cover the Piazza d’Armi and supply the whole Fort with energy.
The wide-open space of the Piazza will become a catalyst of energy and will attract activities, producing the sufficient amount of energy necessary to set in motion the elements placed on it.
Imagine a peaceful siege of the Fort, where an active citizenry takes possession of a characterising part of the area to overturn its paradigm: war turns into a game.
While the signifier remains the same, the meaning turns upside down. The fortifications, structured to be unassailable, are conquered by the citizenry and transformed into places devoted to relaxation and entertainment.
Like during a barricade, from the parterre of Piazza d’Armi, provisional structures will emerge, whose features remind the viewer of the ancient sighting turrets. But in this case, they will support screens that project open-air films. Consequently, the sloping walls will be used for climbing activities and the Trojan horse as a game for children, for example.
In compliance with the competition announcement and conforming to the constraints to which the Forte Portuense is subjected, all the interventions in Area 2 are to be considered provisional and/or removable.
Inside the Fort, numerous and diversified activities come in succession, but they can be summed up in two areas: a wellness area (athletic circuit, spa, massage and relaxing areas, wine bar-restaurant) and a didactic-cultural one (newspaper and periodical library, multimedia library, laboratories, polyvalent rooms, exhibition areas). These areas are conceived in such a way to support the citizenry but mainly to encourage a larger touristic base to visit the Fort located in this historical, though remote area, relative to the old town centre. Along these lines, the fortified ring can be rethought to make the suburban areas more attractive and to suggest an alternative track to the capital’s better-known touristic destinations.
Services for the neighbourhood, such as kindergartens, senior and community centres will remain situated outside the grounds of the Fort, but will be merged on the South-East side of the hill, so that they can clear the area between Via Portuense and Via Irlandesi and make it a public park.
The logic behind the buildings is the formal one of the fortification. Some places and the connective elements are hypogeum, while the classrooms and the meeting rooms stick out of the hill’s profile partly built on the northern front to return an image of the surrounding that could be faithful as much as possible to the original.
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