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0 sqft - 1000 sqft
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$0 - 10K
T2C (Tower to the countryside) is a project designed to stand in continuity with the city of Bologna, also known as the city of towers.
Bononia, a city founded as early as the Iron Age between the Idice and Reno rivers, became one of the main economic-social/cultural nodes of the Italic peninsula in the communal age. This strategic and wealth-generating importance cause the city to be filled with towers, symbols of the power of the city's various wealthy families. A kind of Renaissance New York.
T2C wants to reintroduce the Bolognese genius loci by placing a tower within an environment equally dear to the city, the hills that surround it.
The idea is to develop an installation that can have a dual function:
- Landmark: Its height (8.5 meters) allows it to be highly visible
in a natural and richly vegetated environment.
- Belvedere: The spiral staircase leading to the top of the tower allows users to look beyond the vegetation and enjoy a view that they would not otherwise be able to admire.
As Aldo Rossi argued, the tower has always had a dual function: It allows the observer to see very far, and most importantly it is visible at great distances. T2C sums up these two
concepts perfectly.
T2C also has the following features:
- Shading: With the cladding bamboos, a space is created at the base of the tower that protects from the sun's rays. Like a tent that opens and welcomes people inside.
- Meeting and resting point: The base consists of a bench that allows seating. Users can sit either on the inner or outer side, enjoying the shade of the bamboos at various times of the day.
- Eco-friendly materials: The wood materials used for the seating at the base, the bamboo covering "curtain" and the walking surface at the top of the tower are highly eco-friendly materials. In particular, bamboo is a low-cost material and is a type of plant that is ready for use in an average of only three years (as opposed to 12-15 for a fir tree), over its lifetime absorbs an average of 35 percent more oxygen than other
trees of the same size, and has a very high renewability rate (new shoots are born from a bamboo pole every year, ready to be cut after three to five years).
- Portability/removability: The materials allow for dry assembly that can be easily assembled and disassembled as needed.
The project metaphorically represents a reflection on the passage of time, summarized symbolically with the 3 circles
that allowed the form to be generated. Past, present, and future are positioned from the bottom to the top, and the user must move starting from the past to get to the future, following the spiral staircase in an ascending path and once he reaches the top (on the plane of the future) he will enjoy a spectacular view
that will allow him to observe new horizons.
Bononia, a city founded as early as the Iron Age between the Idice and Reno rivers, became one of the main economic-social/cultural nodes of the Italic peninsula in the communal age. This strategic and wealth-generating importance cause the city to be filled with towers, symbols of the power of the city's various wealthy families. A kind of Renaissance New York.
T2C wants to reintroduce the Bolognese genius loci by placing a tower within an environment equally dear to the city, the hills that surround it.
The idea is to develop an installation that can have a dual function:
- Landmark: Its height (8.5 meters) allows it to be highly visible
in a natural and richly vegetated environment.
- Belvedere: The spiral staircase leading to the top of the tower allows users to look beyond the vegetation and enjoy a view that they would not otherwise be able to admire.
As Aldo Rossi argued, the tower has always had a dual function: It allows the observer to see very far, and most importantly it is visible at great distances. T2C sums up these two
concepts perfectly.
T2C also has the following features:
- Shading: With the cladding bamboos, a space is created at the base of the tower that protects from the sun's rays. Like a tent that opens and welcomes people inside.
- Meeting and resting point: The base consists of a bench that allows seating. Users can sit either on the inner or outer side, enjoying the shade of the bamboos at various times of the day.
- Eco-friendly materials: The wood materials used for the seating at the base, the bamboo covering "curtain" and the walking surface at the top of the tower are highly eco-friendly materials. In particular, bamboo is a low-cost material and is a type of plant that is ready for use in an average of only three years (as opposed to 12-15 for a fir tree), over its lifetime absorbs an average of 35 percent more oxygen than other
trees of the same size, and has a very high renewability rate (new shoots are born from a bamboo pole every year, ready to be cut after three to five years).
- Portability/removability: The materials allow for dry assembly that can be easily assembled and disassembled as needed.
The project metaphorically represents a reflection on the passage of time, summarized symbolically with the 3 circles
that allowed the form to be generated. Past, present, and future are positioned from the bottom to the top, and the user must move starting from the past to get to the future, following the spiral staircase in an ascending path and once he reaches the top (on the plane of the future) he will enjoy a spectacular view
that will allow him to observe new horizons.
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