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Project
Genova Isola Parodi
Location
Genova, Italy
Year
2001
Client
Società Porto Antico
Commission
Concorso pero il nuovo spazio pubblico di Ponte Parodi
Boeri Studio (Stefano Boeri, Gianandrea Barreca, Giovanni La Varra) – 991C e con Massimiliano Marchica, Joseph Grima e John Palmesino
OMA con Vincent Coste, Donald van Dansik, Adrianne Fisher, Matthias Hollwich, Adam Kurdahl, Joshua Ramus, Isabel da Silva, Julien De Smedt, Hanna Svensson
The aim of the project, developed together with OMA and 99IC, further to a competition announced by Genoa Port Authority, is to show that the city of Genoa does not stop at the shoreline, but continues into the sea. By making a hole in the sea, the submerged identity of the extended city is revealed: the floor of the pit is where the submerged world becomes accessible to the public. This project enriches Genoa with a form of architecture which does not exemplify addition but, on the contrary, proves that a well designed process of subtraction is potentially a far more effective form of intervention.