Favignana Island Cala Rotonda
Pozzo Ponente N
Art Luxury Hotel Suites Five Units
Big Art Park
Preveto Island
Art-Scape Hotels 14 Units
Balate Calafumere Beach St. James
Cala Rossa
Heliport Santa Caterina Fort Existing Outline
Art in Nature Walkway Outter Ring Level +293.0
ART.Circle The new volumes are embedded into the landscape and designed to overlook the Big Art Park, the Favignana Island, its Landmarks and the Sea.
Culture Center
The volumes are organized to set harmonically into the landscape and align to important visual and cultural landmarks around the Favignana Island
Restaurant Terrace Art-Scape Hotels
Art Luxury Hotel Suites
Culture Center
Isometric View of the entire area with Fort Santa Caterina, the Big Art Park and the proposed Art Circle Walkway, Culture Center, Art Luxury Hotel and Art Scape Hotel. Isometric Section
The ART.Circle design strategy considers the presence of the Santa Caterina Fort as the most important Island landmark and as such any intervention connected, attached or in its close proximity must carry a light presence in the landscape. The project starts by understanding the Fort topography and by determining the Art in Nature Walkway as an Outer Ring: a pedestrian walkway circumscribing the Fort. The Ring defines its degrees of proximity and organizes the all required volumes/programs to set harmonically into the landscape opening at the Big Art Park and aligning at important visual and cultural landmarks around the Favignana Island. From the Ring the required program for Housing, Hotels and Cultural Center are embedded into the landscape at a lower topographic level and as such all their roofs become moments of passage, stop and contemplation for the landscape and to exhibit artwork. Art Luxury Hotel: 5 units Each with a 42 m2 suite with a private terrace and a private pool. Art-Scape Hotel: 14 suites Each with 35 m2 divided into 2 different levels sharing a communal terrace.
Fort Exhibition Area Entrance
View of Art in Nature Walkway path, and the Exhibition Center
Exhibition Center Entrance
Entrance to Cultural Center Access by Stairs and Elevator The external building material follows the local sandstone as to mimic the regional color palate and camouflage the new volumes within the landscape.
View of Art in Nature Walkway path, and the Exhibition Center
Cultural Center: Large 1000 m2 area volume is divided into two different wings. With Auditorium, Meeting rooms, cafe/bar, Exhibition Areas and Restrooms. Exhibition Center: Uses the current house adjacent to the Fort, an attached volume and a small terrace/piazza create new entrance and connect the Outer Ring with the Fort. Santa Caterina Fort: Its designed for two different moments, its labyrinth interiors serving as Exhibition Areas and the Arts Ateliers. At its top an Architecture Folly for the restaurant opens to two opposite terraces. The only visible intervention to the large historical volume, crowns its structure and redefines its new scale and use.
Overview of Fort Santa Caterina, the Big Art Park and the proposed Art Circle Walkway, Culture Center, and Art Luxury Hotel suites.