Msc thesis

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what

installation exhibition for the evocation of

the north-eastern front of Grotte di Catullo

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who

Elena Ramondetta, Giorgia Rizzo, Lucrezia Rossi

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when
march - december 2019

 

where
Grotte di Catullo

Sirmione, Italy

45°30'05.8"N 10°36'23.8"E

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The historical analysis of the area reinforces the image of Sirmione and Grotte di Catullo as a link between two elements in strong relationship: Architecture and Natural Landscape; a highly sensory dialogue, which leads us to perceive its timeless importance and conceptual richness.  By Nature we mean both the strong and complex topographical identity, the rock, the layers, the geometries of the ruins on the various levels up to the achievement of water, and the constant perception of the blue in the lake. The title of the project is Additio, from latin Addition, referring to an expansion of what already exists, and to a consequent translation of the perfect axis on which the Villa was built. The front, an inhabited wall that clings to the slope without hiding it, supported by pylons that descend to the rock among the vegetation that grew above it, is completed by the porticus exposition, to evoke the peristilium that enclosed the olive garden, by the hortus conclusus and the piers. This meant thinking about new layers of geometric and material interpretation, in which nature with its topography has become a design element.