Situated just outside Grosseto, Italy, in the reclaimed marshlands of the Maremma region, Projected Production deals with the eminent ecological distress current to the area and addresses fascist histories through a critically dystopian project. Off the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea, this team collaborated and researched the lasting effects of soil salinization, climate change, and fertilization on relevant agricultural practices. Our program creates a way for this region to be continually reliant on the farming practices native to the area by featuring a set of six vertical farming structures. As a user move North through the project, they are invited into a "touristic imaginary," experiencing lush gardens and educational spaces specific to the site.
As a formal exploration into the buildings' function, however, the project takes the only original existing structure on the site, a bridge called the "Ponte Tura," as a historical fascist monument, and multiplicities and abstracts it, and de-familiarizes itself as it is stamped across the man-made land. This action, first approached in figure ground, planar metric studies, is a reverberation of the central node of the bridge across the site. Through various materialities, apertures, façade details, and more, these architectural elements are tailored to be legible as they are replicated further away from the original bridge structure.
As a formal exploration of the buildings on site, the project takes the Ponte Tura - the only existing building - and multiplication, abstracts and “stamps” its form across the landscape, in an excessive manner. These renders highlight the visual and functional relationships between buildings.
In these duplications of the bridge, specific architectural elements are defamiliarized from the original, from existing materials to façade ornamentation to technical / industrial elements. These buildings progressively become less abstracted, more distilled, and fundamentally industrialized the further away from the Ponte Tura they are situated.
This reverberation is evident through the various forms remnant of the original node, leaving gashes or impressions on the landscape. The progression of these stamps exceeds the page and becomes purely mechanical, an homage to the original purpose of the Ponte Tura.
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Research Program under Daniele Profeta