ROUND BLUR
1st PRIZE (invited art competition)6th Prize Artegiovane "Turin Meets... the Art: A Gate for Turin"
Program Urban installation
Team 2A+P Architettura / nicole_fvr (Tommaso Arcangioli, Gianfranco Bombaci, Domenico Cannistraci, Lorenzo Castagnoli, Pietro Chiodi, Matteo Costanzo, Valerio Franzone, Angelo Grasso)
Client Artegiovane, Municipality of Turin, Torino Incontra, Fondazione CRT, Compagnia di San Paolo, GTT
Collaborators Modelab - Marco Galofaro (model), Nuova Dalmi (catafiori prototype), a.titolo / Zebra (communication)
Location Turin, Italy
Area 1.400 m2
Year 2003 Completed 2005
Link Round Blur on "Mies van der Rohe Award"
Round Blur in Jurassic Park..., review by Stefano Mirti (IdLab)
nicole_fvr / 2A+P Architettura. Round Blur
Photo ©Paolo Rosselli for Domus n.885 (October 2005)
Round Blur is fuzziness; it’s the blurring from an artificial ground to a natural one. As per the design call brief, Round Blur celebrates spring and the automotive industry of Turin. It celebrates nature and artificiality and how they have become a sole continuous environment.The merging of nature and artificiality is a gradient, a typographic blur, where the asphalt leaves room for the soil and vice versa. The hybridization of nature and artificiality, the perception of time and space, the alternation of day and night, and the succession of seasons become malleable factors manageable in an ordered casualness.Round Blur is the fusion between flowers and ‘catafiori’, artificial flowers made with automotive reflectors, between plants and the white refractive paint of the pedestrian crossing: artificial elements inhabit the inert ground while natural elements bloom from the soil.Round Blur is a colored roundabout during the day and reflects the car lights at night. In winter, when nature fades, like a dream at the border between the urban and natural landscape, the square is still a luminescent maze of colors. Round Blur is an uncertain and fragile place accessible only by tram and observable by the car driving along the roundabout.
