EFA studio di architettura

The architecture
of the dialogue

Piazza Lorenzo Berzieri in Salsomaggiore Terme

Emilio Faroldi
Umberto Allemandi & C.
Turin
2011

ABSTRACT
The conception and realisation of a public work of great urban and spatial significance are elected as protagonists of the requalification of a city in search of a new identity, faithful to its history and projected towards contemporary and future imagery. The result is a narrative in which words and images follow one another in an articulation of voices and testimonies aimed at sculpting with words what has been carved into the consolidated fabric of the city. The contents are based on a multidisciplinary approach in which anthropology, sociology, history, architecture, technology and art come together in specific actions orchestrated by an idea of the project as a central place of synthesis of the articulated demands that society and its protagonists express today.
The "architecture of dialogue", pulsating with stratifications and relations, is the lifeblood of the city, determining the evolution of its form and the shaping of its use: the square is the primary place where public events and private experiences meet every day.