SANTA CROCE SQUARE IN PARMA - Comoglio Architetti
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SANTA CROCE SQUARE IN PARMA

About This Project

Piazza Santa Croce, pilgrims’ urban gate of Parma, from where errant pilgrims from all over Europe entered during the Middle Ages, appears today as a traffic circle absorbed by car flows.
Considering the design theme, we wanted  to reconceive this place thinking about its inhabitants, the pedestrians, the people who pass through and frequent it every day. We imagined a dynamic element, an iron canebrake connoted by an optical fibres light diffuser. These variable height reeds, generate a chaotic sequence that evokes a swarm of fireflies entering the town from the cornfields that surround the city of Parma.    

 

 

Client:

City Council of Parma

Design Architect:

Studio Comoglio Architetti

Partnership with:

Massimiliano Marian

Gross Floor Area:

1.500 sq.m

Status/Condition:

Competition

Year:

2009