1980 Venezia Ponte Academia 2

A very classic project....

but nevertheless organic.

Despite, 

along alignments, 

that it is only made of curves,

along alignments, 

the project, 

at its extremes, 

touches the city, 

as if it were a sort of body within it.

The project

gives a measure 

to the three spaces it crosses 

by giving each of them 

a correlated measure 

and a system of orientation.

The two squares 

receive each

the opening of a groove.

One passes the ‘canale grande’ 

through an in-between 

of convex curved lines 

which narrow at the ridge 

and open at both entrances.

The height of the bridge 

is given by

by the height of the three pyramids 

which mark the three essential points

which are all departures and arrivals.

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The sketches show 

that the project 

the project could have been all lines, 

of measured undulations 

and openings, 

without any enclosure.

That would have been enough ....

By this sequence 

of pure measures, 

a notion of infinite infinity 

is nevertheless felt 

in this project 

which perhaps 

takes on too much body

and thus perhaps 

allows an image to emerge...

rather than the stay 

in the inauguration of a structure

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Aldo Rossi and Claudio d'Amato 

met me at the Bienniale 

where this project was exhibited.....

and they told me that they thought 

that this was the project that should have been built....