Civita di Bagnoregio - click image to enlarge
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text by Udit Lorraine Belkine for Yatzer
“Civita di Bagnoregio is a small medieval town located in the region of Lazio, province of Viterbo, Italy. The town is noted for its striking position atop a plateau of brittle volcanic tuff overlooking the Tiber river valley. Some time ago, Bagnoregio’s municipality advertised a call to architects inviting them to participate in an open competition for the construction of a new pedestrian path in Civita di Bagnoregio. As many as fifty different architectural firms accepted the challenge and submitted their plans for the complicated demand.
Andrea Carloni and Simone Pratesi, members of the Italian architecture studio Progettospore, sent their proposal as well.
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Image Courtesy of PROGETTOSPORE
Image Courtesy of PROGETTOSPORE
Image Courtesy of PROGETTOSPORE
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“”The idea that gave birth to our plan is to enhance the value of the village with such rare formal characteristics through a contemporary project based on past ideas” says Andrea Carloni “In fact, it was while we were reading ‘De re aedificatoria’ by Leon Battista Alberti (1452) and his observations on medieval villages that we laid the guidelines of the project. Our aim was to be able to reach the village by following various “imaginary” ways drawn in the sky having the freedom to float in space as birds. Using an animated program, we floated some visitors in the sky, and, once we found the better trajectories, we used them to plan the three paths that compose the bridge”. ….
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