Artlands // Interventi

Coleps (Stepping stone II)

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The artwork, built within a flood-control storage, is placed in the northern side of the artwork Stepping stone that was built three years before. It consists in a set of canals and islets that follow one another in all directions with regular rate. This regularity remin...
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A large pond is built in a old loading area of an abandoned gravel pit: it is the ancient landscape that was born again after many years of damage of the territory. Cases of rehabilitation of the ancient name (‘toponym’) of a site are known, even though n...
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The transition areas between two different habitats (forest – grassland; wood – lake; fresh water – salt water, etc.) are ecosystems because they give shelter to both species of the communities typical of adjacent habitats and species that are exclusive of this ...
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The new bandita

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The name 'Case Passerini' used to refer to the ancient private hunting reserve of the Counts Passerini, called The ‘Bandita Pantano’. The Italian term ‘bandita’ coming from the expression ‘mettere al bando’ meaning to ban or to leave out, indic...
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Large municipal landfills are ‘new’ features of the landscape. Their artificial forms, created to obtain the highest capacity of storage, are defined by superposed planes and very strong slopes. Landfills of this genre are an unmistakable element of the contemporary l...
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Habitat (R)Evolution: from Amphibians to Birds

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This is Phase II of the construction works of the protected area of the Val di Rose Wetlands which forms part of the creation of several new marsh habitats formed around the initial nucleus of the area realized in 1996. Among these new environments, there is a large basin of app...
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The artwork is a small wetland with some islets in the middle projected as a shelter for aquatic birds during their flight to and from the largest wetlands in the middle of the plain (Stagni di Focognano) and the Arno river system. The whole work is named after the primary functi...
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Throwing the first stone

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The intervention is carried out in a intensive farming area, with some portions occupied by illegal little structures typical of the outskirts as shacks and storage of building materials. A long time ago the area was characterized by wide marshlands. For many years this area has...
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The Sluice gates

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The current appearance of the plain to the northwest of the city of Florence as a result of the extensive land reclamation work that has been continually carried out, in an organized and precise manner, at least since Etruscan times and the progressive soil occupation with buildi...
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Beyond Agnes Denes (tribute to)

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A new wetland, dedicated to migratory birds, was born over fields extensively cultivated until the day before. With this choice, an occasion for comparison is generated, more than thirty years later, with the work of Agnes Denes (Wheatfield – a confrontation, 1982) to whom...
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Enclosing with water

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Having the possibility of limiting its own residence with a zone and, where possible, maintaining inside a permanent water volume is a very common characteristic of building in the history of human communities. In particular, in the floodplains the construction of specific sites...
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The House / The House of Others

Project by Carlo Scoccianti | Interventions

The house has always been synonymous with construction, and therefore intimately tied to the will and the skill of man to create an environment that suits a person's needs. The capacity to 'build a shelter,' modifying a certain environmental situation according to their needs, is...
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Observatory – Cobble habitat

Project by Carlo Scoccianti | Interventions

The observatory was designed to observe the waterfowl in the adjacent lake area (site-specific intervention, refer to Beyond Agnes Denes (Tribute to)). Its structure however was conceived to construct simultaneously a giant refuge destined for all kinds of animal species (reptile...
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Beyond Agnes Denes (tribute to)

Project by Carlo Scoccianti | Interventions

A new wetland, dedicated to migratory birds, created over fields previously extensively cultivated. By choosing to create a new area of great ecological and landscaping interest in these fields, an occasion for comparison is generated thirty years later, with the w...
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Work-Sites and Work-Elements

Carlo Scoccianti | Interventions

"My works (Work-Sites) establish a dialogue with the observer (man) through the aesthetic and vast spatial dimensions, in many cases highlighted by the presence of certain Elements (Work-Elements). The latter take the form of points of reference, a personal aesthetic style or lan...
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