The hill of festivals

Milano, 2002 

Milano, 2002

Carlo Gandolfi, Sebastiana Allegrina, Linda Greco, Sara Riboldi and Carlotta Torricelli

Project type: competition inviting ideas
Developer: Festival of popular music, Grushin, 100th anniversary of Ivan Leonidov’s birth
Awards: third place
Photo: © Stefano Topuntoli

The competition requires the organization of a route that connects the railway station of Grushin to the stage of the shows. 

The answer is a strong sign in the landscape that structures and characterizes it, starting from the shape of the place. 

Two linear paths, that reach the bottom of the valley, depart from the platform built at the station. They constitute and delimit all the elements of the project, creating spaces and breaks along the descent. 

The first path meets the museum, whose figure culminates in an auditorium and a panoramic tower, continuing, then, in a staircase that arrives at the existing guitar-shaped stage that floats on Lake Golovni.
Alongside this dynamic and processional dimension, there is a more intimate one made of less tight spaces that create breaks: the hortus conclusus, a lawn that opens next to the museum, the three terraces behind the tower and the terraces between the two staircases.