BLADE
Project location: Piacenza, Italy
Teamwork
Project Introduction
-----In anthropology, liminality is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a 、 rite of passage, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete.
Fontainhas, the site of the Wine Museum, has a complex community history. Under the threat of natural disasters, the foreign immigrants who once chose to live there because of their economic conditions have all moved out, and the entire area has been deserted, but facilities such as the community gardens they constructed together have been preserved as important reminiscences. In thoroughly investigating the Fontainhas site, we found a fascinating resonance with the notion of LIMINALITY. The site presents a narrative consisting of four distinct platforms that harmonize with the flow of the river. These platforms act as interconnecting stepping stones, forming wide horizontal passages that are knitted together by those vertical steps. These connecting areas act as conduits between fields, between past and present, between past and future. The Fontainhas site represents LIMINALITY, both in terms of the site's fundamentals and its historical moment in time.
In exploring the nature of architecture, we realized that LIMINALITY exist in spaces and moments where the solid meets or blurs the void, creating opportunities for transition, transformation and experience. It is in these in-between spaces that people, objects and environments can change, develop new meanings and interact with the tangible (solid) and intangible (void) aspects of space. At the same time this relationship between the SOLID and the VOID can be reversed in human perception due to factors such as changes in light and shadow, and changes in the function of the space. Based on these interesting theories, we have completed a wine museum design that delves into the liminality concept of transitions taking center stage.
PROLOGUE
Site Narrative
Liminality Extracting liminalitis
Fragmenting Spaces In A Visual Scale
CONCEPT AND MASSING
Position
Mass Movement as a Tool
Story-Line
LDENTITY
Logo and Story
Brand Highlights
DESIGN
Precision
Framing the Focus
Plans
Plans
Sections
Sections
Spatial Visualisations
Spatial Visualisations
Spatial Visualisations Spatial Visualisations
Materiality