Coscienza Intuitiva

COSCIENZA INTUITIVA

The Tower of Palermos’ Phenomena

ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION Y 5 DIPLOMA UNIT 5 CRISTINA DIAZ MORENO, EFREN CA GRINDA, BENJAMIN REYNOLDS

An architectural representation of the current Palermo Phenomena. A new form of public space, conceived as a cross-breed between a Time-City Arkhêion and a Street Baraonda. A tower of Compilation. An aggregation of fragments, of ruins and embodied cultural identities. A public space that both generate and digest forms of Beauty, moving from antiquity to popular culture.

A project in constant process of transformation. Never finished, never concluded, unstable and in persistent mutation. A proposal that pursue the friction between the Uncompiuted state of a building, and the architects idealized version of it. Therefore how through this friction, the city could comes back to the project.

A reflection of its grain, its amplification. A vessel of values and identities. As a mirror of the society and its perpetual alteration.

Located in the historical city centre of Palermo, precisely at Piazza Caracciolo, the core of the ancient Vucciria Market which once extended through the neighboring streets.

Once, because nowadays the historical Site has been encountered a degradation process, as almost the entirely of the Palermo city centre. Site in which the project has its origin.

A compilation: a stacking of the clashed Palermo Ruins and unbuilts. Where Elements are accumulated and displayed in different ways, from cladding, to holes and compund, up to full mass. An amalgamation of elements, typologies, materials and languages.

Therefore a vision of the contemporary not constrained by the strength of history but which uses the same as a material for its regeneration.

A street Market as a public space of social and cultural collision, intented to redifine collective contruction. A tower as a fragmented repository of culture and identities, enhancing the value of the leftover and its own beauty.

An ambitious and speculative project, Tackled at different scales. Which callenge alternative materialities and reevaluate lost techniques.

Interrogating on architecture reality; on the acceptance of the friction between the perpetual uncompiuted state of a building, and the architects’ idealized version of it, as the infeasibility of the ideal concluded work.

A project that challenge the temporariness of Architecture and its language, the acknowledgment of its constant mutation as a reflection and representation of the city itself, its complexity, richness and incompleteness.

Resulting in a perpetual unconcluded building in a city of unfinished.