SUSPENDED FOOTBRIDGE IN THE JEAN NOUVEL PAVILION
Standing at more than 130 metres high, the walkway has been designed to unfold freely through the regular grid of Jean Nouvel’s pavilion at Fiera di Genova in an organic structure.
With more than sixty variable-section portals, visitors can change their viewpoint and enjoy the green scenery of the fair from above.
DETAILS
Status: Completed
Customer: Porto Antico di Genova Spa
Design team: M. Valagussa, M. Fraschini, G. Noseda Pedraglio, S. Novarese
Location: Genova (Liguria – Italy)
Scope: Public
Sector: Events and Trade Fairs
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Description
The idea behind the pedestrian walkway, which crosses the Nouvel Pavilion from side to side, is inspired by one of the project’s core concepts: reflecting on the relationship between touch and sight in relation to the landscape.
In fact, it can be perceived and appreciated as both a ‘distant background’, which is predominantly visual, and something ‘very close’ that one can touch and be immersed in. In this sense, this imposing chestnut wood structure is intended to stitch together fragments of the purely visual ‘background’ landscape, encouraging dialogue with tactile perception by walking between them. The walkway offers visitors a change of perspective, enabling them to experience the green surroundings and landscapes in two different yet complementary ways.
Designed as an organic structure, the walkway comprises more than sixty portals of different cross-sections, each one unique. This creates a freely unfolding path through the regular grid of pillars in the exhibition hall.
Status: Completed
Customer: Porto Antico di Genova Spa
Design team: M. Valagussa, M. Fraschini, G. Noseda Pedraglio, S. Novarese
Location: Genova (Liguria – Italy)
Scope: Public
Sector: Events and Trade Fairs
