The Officine Grandi Riparazioni (O.G.R) are an extremely important old architectural complex located in a key area for Turin. The project involves converting the O.G.R. into a multipurpose space to coincide with celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy.
\nThe project consisted in designing interior and exterior communal spaces, as well as fully functional exhibition spaces.
\nMore specifically, it was decided to adapt the two main courtyards along the lines of an “Italian Square”.
\nThe first court new square over by Corso Castel Fidardo is \u201cPiazza Aulica\u201d with pictorial and metaphysical features: a large piece of red ground (painted gravel), a mysterious black-and-white arrow (directly citing Osvaldo Licini) and a block of ceramic anchovies (designed by Danilo Trogu), indicating the entrance direction and flow, which attempts to recreate the estranging fact of De Pisis\u2019s still life.
\nThe second square over by Corso Borsellino is \u201cPiazza Popolare\u201d, which calls to mind old-fashioned farmyards and festivals through a large expanse of green gravel and lights hanging from cables. Piazza Aulica is the emblematic entrance space while Piazza Popolare is the square linked to the bar and restaurant where people can relax.
\nThis external work on colour that mixes the power of abstraction with the magic of realism continues on the inside of the building in the entrance spaces, ticket office, cloakroom and bookshop, where a few metallic features and a couple of plaster \u2018sails\u2019 (all white-coloured) combine with industrial or estranging (in the case of the bookshop) lighting appliances to dialogue with the dramatic and heroic poetics of the O.G.R. construction.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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