The third element
Francesco Costanzo (I)
Giuseppe Di Caterino (I)
Claudia Sorbo (I)
architects
Europan 9 Pistoia
runner-up
European Urbanity as a search for a formal definition, with a clear and concluded form. - Sustainable City to force the relationship between concentration and rarefaction, construction and nature. - Innovation of Public Spaces as vast space, element of expression and control of the relationship between city and territory. - Sustainability is to find an intervention scale this separation can be obliterate in, the scale where city and territory can appear together. Slowly it appears a vision of a place with a creek, Medicean walls, an artesanal compound, the cathedral, the Florence-Lucca line, an highway, a great loggia precinct… (the THIRD ELEMENT).
This project is connected to the following themes
Shared spaces - A Frame for social life
Constituting a logical development of the historical extension of the city, the project is a large, highly structured and rational complex, which offers public spaces capable of accommodating contemporary European urban life.
Housing - Typology
A building project of monumental scale and aesthetics, the proposal for Pistoia explores a relationship between micro and macro, architecture and city, human beings and land.