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New sporting palace in Lamezia Terme

New sporting palace in Lamezia Terme
“the new sport town”

The building tends to disappear in the landscape becoming an “all-in-one” with the landscape itself, in a logic of disintegration. So, rather than becoming necessary as volume that occupies a space, the architecture adapts a spatial gap, in a process in whom the volume tends to disappear and to be put like background.
The architecture in this way looks to be identified by the own "planking" to describe itself as a landscape fragment: a landscape obtained through a re-building, by means of a kind of absorption of hidden laws and here only evoked. It is an architecture that it is not seen from afar, that is not perceived completely, but it is revealed slowly by approaching at it.
On the contrary, the outline of the landscape, the horizon, the skyline, they enter into the architecture like active elements, since the project is not more considered how an entity that becomes necessary in preponderant way, but it becomes a fragment of a process wider than it reassures because it involves the accounts between the parts.
The territory is explored hybridizing the complex of the sport palace and the site, in the attempt of transcending the traditional opposition it earthly-appears, of the passive site and of the active building. The concept of the neutral ground gives the step to the strategy of the manipulated landscape, as structure and ground become interchangeable.
Leaving from this concept the architecture, doing strength on the morphological and territorial values, inserts the complex into a landscape system strongly supplemented with the original environment of the plain of Lamezia and with his natural gullies.
The sporting palace is set in the soil and creates a true and own continuity with the surrounding landscape. The covering, a system of “green ribbons” at more levels that accompany in uniform way different heights of the building, becomes a true and own hanging garden, a great park where the nature and the artificially built and play an exchange game, they integrate before being superimposed and one melts into the other. The sporting palace can be a so definite “building landscape”. The interior differently the traditional conception of this building typology opens to the outside, the landscape enters and melts with the glacises and with the field with game. The access of the spectators and their downflow is facilitated by the lack of any barrier and obstacle, at different levels of the glacises it is reached naturally walking along the external runs that connect the parking with the park itself.

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