Re-imagining Vigevano
Spring 2021
ARC 409 Instructor: Richard Rosa
In Collaboration With Ying Na Li
Vigevano, PV, Italy
This project is the piazza and church at Vigevano. The piazza was designed by Bra- monte, and the church was designed by Antonio da Lonate. Due to its urban context, the piazza is angled with no axial connection to the church. The current negotiator between these two spaces is a curved baroque facade. The curved facade created irregular geometric porsches between the church and the outside. This project is to connect the piazza and the church through an invasion of each other’s spaces. Part of the piazza facade will invade the assembly space while the structures of the assembly space will invade the piazza. The structure for the assembly space was influenced by the large beams in Casa del Fascio and the extension of structures exposed beyond the enclosure as seen in Asilo Sant’Elia.
This project contains a series of large frames and these frames are shifted in the piazza to guide people from the central axis of the piazza to the nave and into the center of the church. The concept of framing extends to the human experience. The facade of our music box frames the stage within and is visible from the platform in the piazza. And vice versa, the pizza is framed in the music box.
