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View from the houses

(left)View of the flower-beds
(right) Bench

LA CRAQUELURE

Restoration of Matteotti square – Badalucco – Italy

The square is a long, narrow area with a slight but definite slope and is overlooked by two rows of tall buildings. The main road linking the whole valley is the fourth side, which breaks the almost rectangular shape and gives a view of the olive groves on the other side of the river. The shadow of the buildings gives the square a certain depth. The surface looks like mud dried and cracked by the sun’s heat, just like “craquelure” ceramics, of which the village is an open-air art gallery – a huge life-size art work. The two-dimensional design acquires a third dimension, the lines gain depth and the ground becomes a surface where cracks of carrying sizes follow the natural order of the place. The flower-beds are laid horizontally, in contrast with the slope of the square, widen and deepen the furrow and emphasize the depth of this simple-seeing surface. The bench, however, stands out and becomes a seat for people of all ages and sizes. The young olive trees, the dominating essence of this geographic area, sprout from the cracks in the surface and create yet another element is the play of volumes; then they proclaim their presence to the long straight river-bank walk. The result, the aim of which was to restore the square while keeping costs down, is an essential design which makes use of poor materials such as decoloured bitumen, with its graininess and inert colour, strong, long-lasting and suitable both for pedestrian and vehiculat traffic, reinforced cement, natural iron and mixed gravel.

The project is classified to the second place to the prize IQU 2009 – “urban innovation and quality” – in the category “Architecture and City” and third place to the international prize “Architettura orizzontale”.

(left) View towards main road serving the valley and terraced olive groves on other side of river
(right) Small olive shoots

这片广场狭长略带坡度，两侧是高大建筑，在建筑阴影下广场显得更为纵长。广场对面是装满橄榄树的小山。设计师让这里的地面布满龟裂纹般的痕印。锈蚀钢板上有三个条带，其中两个是与广场坡度不一致，种着小橄榄树的树坑，从侧面能清楚的看到坡度的变化。一条是从地面匍匐突起的座椅，适合所有年龄段的人。这个广场恢复项目的成本控制的相当好，选择了不易改变的色彩，并使用了适合行人行走的材料如：脱色沥青，水泥，锈蚀钢板，砾石。

Contrasts the sloping square and ideal horizon of the bench and flower -beds

Echoes raised and sunken elements, “melted” and “solidified” materials

Bench and flower-bed, detail

A bench for all ages and heights

(left)Borders cracks, house edges
(right)The cracks, detail of the realisation

Noctural movement (i.e. earthquakes)

(left)The cracks, detail of the realisation

(left) plan
(right 1) skyline ( right 2) building limits

site: Badalucco (IM) – Italy
client: municipality of Badalucco
planners: mag.MA architetture (marco roggeri alessia rosso gianpiero peirano)
site manager: mag.MA architetture (marco roggeri alessia rosso gianpiero peirano)
company: Masala srl – Camporosso (IM)
timescale: 2006-7 plan
2007-8 building work
materials: Flooring: natural iron netting with asphalt mixed with calcareous gravel,
porphyridic gravel from Trentino, sand from La Turbie with transparent bonding material.
Flower beds: reinforcec concrete, natural iron sheeting, gravel from La Turbie.
Bench: reinforced concrete left rough
dimensions: 650 mq surface

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