Names:
Tim Karman, Eltjo Ockeloen, Luca Piantanida, Giulia Ravanini, Lin Shu, Eline de Winter
Track: Architecture
Studio: Architecture Theory and Philosophy
Year: MSc2 / 2024
Type: Design project
Tutor: Stavros Kousoulas, Andrej Radman
Description:
From the light that travels and reaches the retina, allowing us to see, to our feet resting on earth, which is translating around its own axis: movement and touch precede and proceed experience. By speculating how novel flows can be brought into the hostile landscape of the Chiaia waterfront in Naples, the group brought into discussion the question of the Balconcino and how Napolitains personalize public spaces
turning them into extensions of their private homes. We found a parallel with the stones in Chiaia’s oceanfront, as the few “beachgoers” occupy rocky surfaces with towels, sunglasses and their bodies looking for a personal space of leisure. The group then reimagined and reorganized the rocky profile of the shoreline into a maze, creating a new way of touching and moving through Chiaia’s waterfront, either over or through the rocks, leading to the discovery of a new space for leisure by the mediterranean.