L’Unione Sarda dedicates an article to the Orani Pergola Village project, conceived by Costantino Nivola in 1953, which continues to thrive in this village in central Sardinia through the collaboration between residents, the local municipal administration, and Stefano Boeri Architetti, the studio overseeing its implementation since 2020.
In Orani, the almost utopian dream of artist Costantino Nivola is taking shape: a village united by pergolas, where life is shared with the common purpose of tending to the vines and to one another. As many as 200 private homes are now part of the project — an environmental artwork designed to strengthen the community spirit of its residents by connecting the village’s houses through pergolas, transforming the streets into intimate spaces for collective living.
The intervention creates urban interiors composed of existing façades and a backdrop of living nature that shifts with growth and the changing seasons, reducing the heat island effect within the streets of the historic centre and offering residents a pathway of shadow and light filtering through the leaves. The scheme planned for Orani unfolds across a range of design options, responding to the existing urban fabric and varying the structure and layout of the pergolas in relation to the façades and elements encountered throughout the historic core of this small Sardinian municipality.
To read the full article: https://www.unionesarda.it/lunione-in-edicola/prende-forma-il-sogno-di-nivola-ezdee0jq