Radici

AtelierFraSe

Francesco Gorni, Casalpusterlengo, 1980 / Serena Montesissa, Piacenza, 1982. They live in London, UK.
AtelierFraSe is a nomad workshop established by Francesco Gorni and Serena Montesissa, that develops its research through a non stop creative process, using architecture and design as privileged media of expression. In London since 2011, AtelierFraSe has collaborated to realize site-specific interventions for public spaces, installations and set design for theatre.

Website: www.atelierfrase.com

Radici

Radici (Roots) are “architectural crystals” developed around the trees, creating a “narrative density” that is able to capture the attention of visitors, inviting them to a new experience and proposing a change in their perception of the natural space and of its living creatures.
The structures, inspired by the intricate pattern of roots, create an unusual viewpoint: embedded comfortable cavities, in which visitors will be invited to lie down and rest, thus allowing to experience in first person the trees as living organisms.
An experience made consistent by the perception of the ecosystem that inhabits branches, by perceptible movements, by the sky, light changes, shadows, seasons, and atmospheric agents.
The cavities not only become a space of experience and meditation but also a structural medium of the system nature / man, making the visitor himself an appendix of the tree, its root: a direct operation on the natural environment, against the indolent and careless perception of the existing wonders, to bring visitors to a higher level of awareness.
Through a representative and spectacular element, the authors aim to establish a direct dialogue between nature and park users, making them conscious interpreters.