{"id":26203,"date":"2014-07-11T13:01:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T11:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/landscaping-of-the-tram-line-1-2\/"},"modified":"2016-04-08T12:12:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T10:12:45","slug":"landscaping-of-the-tram-line-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.area-arch.it\/en\/landscaping-of-the-tram-line-1\/","title":{"rendered":"landscaping of the tram line 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are forgotten places behind the different levels that time leaves and there are places that remember us. Behind the remains of the factory \u201cLa Brit\u00e1nica\u201d were the first walls made in the Serra Grossa. The character of this site at the foot of the hillside was clearly defined by its industrial past as a strategic location. It was the base for a refinery, with galleries and tanks dug inside into the rock and showing up with its entrances trough a pre existing quarry. Hard landscape, baked by the sun and hardened by sea salt, made of planes of stone with the marks of what had previously existed there. A place that went against the sea and now it seems tied by the border of the infrastructures and constructions that move it away from the shore.
\nThe new layout of the Tram helped to remove all the remnants and to rescue the past, a superb hidden artificial scenery. The work consisted of the construction of a simple floor. It is in the gap between the tracks and the exquisite canvas of sun baked stone showing up its side, full of splendid ancient walls and sculpted marks where we projected the promenade. In front of the quarry, in front of the largest and oldest cut, it is placed the main square with the tram station stop. A single material will solve everything. We have projected with the structure of the walkways paths, with access trough the threshold beneath the tramway infrastructure, always using the support of the existing walls. In the quarry, in the emptiness existing after the removal of one of the sides, we model a new environment without horizon, capable of turning off the noise of the neglected outskirts and closing the new square and connecting it with the castle.
\nPlatforms, handrails, a bench, the pines, gutters, doors and the lighting; Things… the minimum. The scale of the installed elements have been established in relation to the elements of the tramway construction. What is given there belongs to the mountain. The industrial elements are made of galvanized steel as it is used in infrastructures. The concrete of the walls and pavements, is left like the surface of the mountain, cutting them roughly in sawn planes that the sun will later condition. Now, with the sea out of the center of the sight and as a curtain of one of the sides, it remains a place in the mountain, rocky and dry, quiet and solitary. It remains what already existed.<\/p>\n