Moreno Pivetti
Recomposition of a bio-sustainable production site,
Ferrara (Italia)
MORENO PIVETTI ARCHITECTURE
Innovating by intoning the action of man
to the order of nature
Sustainable construction and production. “A happy work” on the “Paterne rive”
Over there where the “paternal shores”, as described by Ludovico Ariosto, turn into fields that were once covered by water and that were turned into fields by the work of man, in the heart of the Emilian countryside, home of hemp cultivation, we were faced with the unusual task of rehabilitating a productive settlement endangered by the 2012 earthquake. And with that, all that makes its landscape such as vegetable gardens and interstitial gardens that create a relationship between its buildings and the landscape which is shaped by the changing of the seasons.
The area that concern the new settlement have been redesigned, planned and thought with the purpose of putting together this essential and mutual relationship between what is built and nature.
The facades of the buildings give in their materiality into the idea of a diaphanous fence that reflects, incorporating it, the natural horizon: a “bucolic gallery”, cultivated, that slips between buildings or part of buildings and reaches the landscape, multiplying the perceived perceptions.
The softness of nature, nature as something that is re-built, comes back in what is the simple, natural presence of local species – lavender, ivy, rosemary – which are in conversation with seasonal crops thus describing a logical and coherent “vegetable garden” which animates patios and paths.
Drawings
Once again, we can see in a tense and evocative way, the idea of secret and introspective places, designed for the double purpose of cultivation and pause, where nature is essential for growing cultivations and yet, at the same time, it becomes an artifice.
The intervention, therefore, fits harmonically within the context with simple and measured interventions, reorganizing in a logical way the cultivations and revamping, without upsetting them, the typological, figurative and material characteristics of the vegetable gardens that belong to the rural settlements.
Moreno Pivetti, Architetto
