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01_aerial day view
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02_aerial night view
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06_rotating
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11_people
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02_plan
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Risorgimento Square
ma0 studio di architettura. Bari, Italy
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Name of work in English
Risorgimento Square
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Name of work in original language
Piazza Risorgimento
Prize year
EUmies Awards 2011
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Work Location
Bari, Italy
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Studio
ma0 studio di architettura
EUmies Awards 2011 Nominees
Collaborators
Collaborator (office): Pierluigi Ventura, Federica Greco, Pietro Cagnazzi; Others: Maurizio Franco
Program
Urban planning
Total gross floor
2.92 m²
Completion
2009
The project site is an existing small square in Bari, in the south of Italy, to be renewed with few and simples interventions, that could give to this small and fragile space a kind of 'domestic' value. The idea is to transform it in a public space that can be continuously reconfigured according to the wishes of its inhabitants: the seating is entirely composed of rotating benches that can be moved into the trees shadow on hot days, or on the contrary, they can be moved into the sunshine on colder ones.
The rotating benches allow multiple configurations, to meet and chat with a group of friend, to wait for someone coming from the city center, or for a child when the school is over; the lighting system configuration allows at the same time to choose during night time to be in light or not... This low technology interactive device transforms the public space into a playground where people can play with the rules of public architecture.