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1. Satellite image of 1976 proposal
2. Google satellite image reserve today
Milvia Maglione
Lucio Del Pezzo Chrissa Romanos
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3. Members of Operazione Arcevia
“Creators of beauty”
Ico Parisi
Joe Tilson
In 1976 the Bartoletti family published “Operazione Arcevia”, a collection of works – drawings, photos, surveys and writings – to explore different modes of creative expression and to imagine a new architectural landscape in Arcevia, Ancona, Italy, where the project began. 40 years later, the research and the enthusiasm of Bartoletti’s family has informed UNIT+, enabling them to create a new phase of development with some of the original values at its heart. In 1972 Italo Bartoletti, with the help of architect Ico Parisi, started Operazione Arcevia. Based on his previous studies, Parisi introduced the idea of an existential community. He also wished to introduce to the local area new “creators of beauty” such as sculptors, painters, musicians and other contemporary artist of the time and to bring them together for the development of this vision of a new architectural landscape. 4. Work of Emanuele Astengo for Operazione Arcevia
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“Architectural landscape�
5. Members of Operazione Arcevia
Ico Parisi
Operazione Arcevia strove to intervene, in a non-elitist way, and proposed to create a new territory wide infrastructure through reconsidering the existing social, economic and cultural aspects of the local environment. One of their propositions was to create a complex, a ‘micro-city’ that offered residential and work spaces for 600 users, 400 of whom could be permanent residents. By integrating the agricultural reality at that time, they aimed to improve production so that the area would become self-sufficient for food and would be able to sustain all the inhabitants, permanent and visiting. After a series of studies, they realised that this could only happen if the complex could create employment for 50% of the residents.
6. “Comunita’ Esistenziale” proposal on landscape
Aldo Ricci Mauro Staccioli Francesco Pennisi Chrissa Romanos
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Teodosio Magnoni
“Existential community�
7. Members of Operazione Arcevia
Ico Parisi
Moreover, they thought about the potential for tourism and proposed a hotel to house up to 50 visitors as well as a “ritiro laico” (a place for reflection, silence and peace). They also considered periodical cultural activity and facilities such as: a conference meeting room, exhibition space, a concert space, open air artistic activity and a series of study spaces for researchers and artisans. For the founders of the project, “Existential community” did not mean a therapeutic community, but rather a new model for a different way of living closer to the human needs of today’s world. Key to its success was the need for the inhabitants to adopt this new way of life, the essential criteria being the social development between the inhabitant, the artist, the guest, and the farmer.
8. “Thumb-Pillar” created by Cesar
OPERAZIONE ARCEVIA 1976 Members
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Antonio Michelangelo Arman Astengo Balderi Iginio Bairo Gabriella Bartoletti Italo Bertoncini Mario Burri Alberto Carrino Cavalieri Alik Cegna Giorgio Ceroli Mario Corneille Clementi Aldo Collina Giuliano Crispolti Enrico Di Bello Bruno Del Pezzo Lucio Dudley Rod Frasca’ Nato Guerra Tonino Maglione Milvia Magnoni Manucci Nikos Parravicini Antonio Parisi Ico Pennisi Francesco Restany Pierre Ricci Aldo Romanos Chrissa Sabbatini Sanejouand Serrini Giuseppe Somaini Francesco Sonzogni Vito Soto’ J.R. Staccioli Mauro Strazzi Artemio Takahashi Shire Tilson Joe Trubbiani Valeriano
9. Operazione Arcevia meeting
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10. Members visiting Palazzo D’Arcevia
11. “Comunita’ esistenziale”: rendered view of the street level
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12. Members discussing the proposal
13. “Comunita’ esistenziale”: rendered view of the street level
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14. Members discussing the proposal
15. “Comunita’ esistenziale”: rendered view of the street level
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16. Members discussing the proposal
17. “Comunita’ esistenziale”: rendered view of the street level
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