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General green plan
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General layout of the risalita on pedestrian niveau
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Entrance Loggia behind the former Convent
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Cavern of the Convent - View in direction to the entrance of the cavern
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San Martino Terrace, loggia and Castle - view from the street
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The Loggia from the northern street with San Martino in the background
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Panoramic view from the loggia
New Access to the Castello di Rivoli
Hubmann Vass Architekten. Rivoli, Italy
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Name of work in English
New Access to the Castello di Rivoli
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Name of work in original language
Risalita al Castello di Rivoli
Prize year
EUmies Awards 2011
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Work Location
Rivoli, Italy
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Studio
Hubmann Vass Architekten
EUmies Awards 2011 Shortlisted
Collaborators
Engineering: Manfred Gmeiner; Structural engineering: Albino Loro; Landscape architect: Rosita Feltrin; Collaborator (office): Luis Barbosa da Silva, Roland Fabiani; Collaborator (external): Johann, Martina Gaigg, Martin Murero, Paul St
Program
Infrastructure
Completion
2010
The aim of the new circulation system at the Castello di Rivoli and the sustainable redesign of the southeast flank of the adjoining hillside is to create a closer link between the city and the castle. Rivoli, a small town on the western edge of Turin, is dominated by this monumental 18thcentury building by Filippo Juvarra, which was never completed and currently houses an internationally renowned museum of contemporary art. The prominent southeast slope, due to its location between the city's 'back side' and the incomplete garden wing of the castle, remained undefined, an 'inner periphery'.
The divergent scales of the city and the castle come together unmitigated in this interstitial space. This tension creates the setting for sustainable uses that are articulated on three different levels: as urban landscape with a new planting concept; as recreational space within walking distance; and & by means of the escalators and ramps forming a circuit of caverns, rifts and terraces incised in the hillside & as a direct connection.