Nature vs building
Rossella Scaramuzzi (I)
architect
FredericaFacchini (I)
architecture student
Eleonora Marchetti (I)
Alessia Picca (I)
Michele Tiscini (I)
engineering students
Europan 9 Kapfenberg
runner-up
The project, between the natural system of the mountain and the artificial system of the existing infrastructures, consists of a frontier area. The hypothesis of a random increase of the two systems leads to a reciprocal disgregation which is not quantitative but rather structural. The borders of these two systems, episodic as well as discontinuous, continue to exist but melted into a dynamic process of transformation, multiplication and infiltration. The result is then a fingers-shaped conformation which shows a solution in terms of territory sustainability: new woods improve microclimate aspects, help decreasing pollution and noises, also increasing soil permeability
This project is connected to the following themes
Housing - Typology
The housing typologies proposed by the “Nature vs Buildings” project tackle the question of the encounter between nature and culture head-on, developing the notions of boundaries and interstices through architectural and urban scales.
Nature - Hybridity / Juxtaposition
The edge of the forest is defined as the place where woodland and housing are juxtaposed via systems of strips in which each infiltrates slightly further into the other’s territory.
Nature - Limit / Reconnection
The boundary between woodland and infrastructures is reflected as an inhabited fringe where the fingers of urbanisation are used to increase the wooded area.