Fedro: \u201cDid you find it there?\u201d Socrates: \u201cJust there, I found one of those things cast up by the sea, a white thing, snow-white. Clean, hard, sweet, light, glittering in the sun, on the smooth sand, it was obscure and strewn with sparks; I took it, I blow it, I rubbed it against my mantle and its unusual shape stopped all my thoughts. Who made thee? I wondered. Different from any other thing, yet not shapeless; are you a freak of nature, nameless thing, sent by the gods and come to me among the rubbish rejected by the sea last night?\u201d Fedro:
\n\u201cOf which material?\u201d Socrates: \u201cOf the same material of its shape: incertitude. Maybe it was the bone of a fish oddly worn out by the sand; or ivory cut by an overseas artisan, for a reason I can\u2019t grasp\u2026 Who knows? May be it was only the fruit of an infinite time\u2026\u201d
\n(Paul Val\u00e9ry. Eupalinos, 1921 – free translation) <\/p>\n

The first elements taken into consideration are the extraordinary and qualitative characteristics offered by the place: the green, the relation with the sea, the history, the urban structure, the hotel system. The strategic and creative solution, aiming at a poetic reaction, proposing itself in front of those starting elements together with the targets to achieve, is therefore a solution identifying an intervention for subsequent Phases, looking through the invention of a symbolic building that is deep-rooted to the place, a \u201cKunsthalle\u201d containing a conference centre, flexible exhibition areas, a car park, swimming-pools and a sea resort, restaurants and spa resorts, the first foundation step. A decisive and inalienable step. It is a proof of identity. This social public-private building, this \u201cKunsthalle\u201d, this \u201cwhite thing\u201d (la \u201cchose blanche\u201d by P.Valery), belongs to the place.
\nIt belongs to the place because the place is designing, locating, defining it. Such as the elements that can be found by the seaside, which, after years of erosion, caresses and violence of the sea, are losing their original shape, and are taking one of their own, belonging to the time and to the sea, to the place where they are laying.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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