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lorenzo napolitano architetto

Foggia, IT

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The Sunday Review devotes its cover to the event
The Sunday Review devotes its cover to the event
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Cavour Square. Restoration in Foggia Italy 2006

The project  of restoration has interested the central sculpture and the great tub that surrounds this icon of water representated by a fishstars built in the years 1924 for the opening of Apulian Aqueduct.. The urban area had only a characteristic functional  as a traffic rounabout  losting  its emotional aspect. The starfish sculpture made on reinforced concrete was totally degraded with various parts missing. The same for the great tube and the green area that as a ring filtered the whole architecture.The project of restoration has saved the ancients stones that was at the base of the monument. These  were made by Trani Bronze  stone and was the original aspect of the site. We had recovered the starfish sculpture trought a work of cleaning and rebuilding. The project has create a new ring where wasthe green area, trought a depth excavation with a new natural element defined from the water that overflowing from the great tub trought six cuts that remebered the Lucio Fontana art work and link  the entire architecture. Six pause made as an invite to the monument create twentyfour water jets that enter in the central tub defining a continue moving of  this natural element  conected to the sculpture and architecture of the square,  trought the  the icon of the Water.

 
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Status: Built
Location: Foggia Italy

 
Condition of the premises
Condition of the premises
Numbering of the original stones before restoration
Numbering of the original stones before restoration
Degrade of the starfish sculpture
Degrade of the starfish sculpture
During the restoration of the starfish sculpture
During the restoration of the starfish sculpture
The new ring ended by a curved stone
The new ring ended by a curved stone
The new ring with one of the six invites
The new ring with one of the six invites
The invite to the monument
The invite to the monument
The ring with the littles bridges
The ring with the littles bridges
One of the six cuts with led violet light in the invite area
One of the six cuts with led violet light in the invite area
The square
The square
The square in action
The square in action
The water jets actions
The water jets actions
Aereal view
Aereal view