OPERAZIONE ARCEVIA 2.0
HARA ANASTASIOU_ MASSIMO DORIGO_ SOPHIE BEHRENDS_ NICOLÓ SPINA_ LUKE MILES_ FLORIAN SIEGEL_ MATTEO BLANDFORD_ JORDANA LYDEN SWIFT_
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_About Us _Operazione Arcevia 2.0 _Survey and Proposal
_about us _operazione arcevia 2.0 _survey and proposal
_Operazione Arcevia 1976
_operazione arcevia beta
ABOUT US
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1. Members of UNIT+
UNIT + is a multi-disciplinary group of creatives and skilled collaborators. The UNIT’s size fluctuates according to the specific needs of individual projects. At the groups centre is a team of London based designer who believe that through collaboration of expertise and examination of ideas, the quality of design can be enriched.
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2. Topographic map of site
The first priority and nucleus of the project in the 1970s was the complex, which gave birth to the approaches and ideas of the “thought factory or creative lab”. UNIT + have shifted the focus away from the complex and on to the “thought factory and creative lab” to be the new nucleus of the project’s evolution.
3. Outline of Riserva Privata San Settimio properties
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4. Operazione Arcevia 1976 meeting
The original infrastructure for creativity – the “ritiro laico” (a place for reflection, silence and peace), a conference meeting room, exhibition space, a concert space, open air artistic activity and a series of study spaces used for research and artisan activity – is key to cultivating the thought factory.
5. Operazione Arcevia 2.0 meeting
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6. Concept of the birth of the hub (Ico Parisi - 1976)
Now, the proposed cultural activities and workshops, the quality of the space and the nurturing creative environment that these create will enrich the reserve’s identity. Interventions such as ‘pop up’ studios - various shelters or items of furniture which will create/designate places to paint, write or simply dream – will mark the landscape. Together, these plans will encourage other practitioners - artists, architects, writers and conceptual performers crafts people other visitors - to come and interact with the site. The inclusion and partnership with these “beauty creators” is still at the heart of constructing this “thought factory”; this is not a utilitarian project based around ‘us’ but the beginnings of an open invitation for all to collaborate.
7. Concept of the birth of the hub (UNIT+ - 2012)
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8. UNIT+ surveying
In September 2012, five members of UNIT + journeyed to Riserva Privata San Settimio, at the invitation of the Bartoletti family. Over one week, they carried out survey work to document the area for future phases and to present some of the initial ideas gained from the experience of living on site. Through this dynamic engagement, using experiential and live mapping techniques across a range of different media (conceptual documentaries, sketches, models and a fairy tale inspired comic book), UNIT + presented a new colour-coded navigation system, the concept of open ‘air studios’, a proposal for a ‘floating’ meditation room and a towering sundial.
9. Screenshots of “Documentary video
TOWERING SUNDIAL
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9. Concept of towering sundial (UNIT+ 2012)
The brief created by the UNIT for the Sundial was to create a beacon, a landmark to identify the reserve within the greater hilled agricultural landscape, that celebrates the reserve and to make a statement, drawing in new interest and creativity. Its construction is restricted to using only material harvested within the reserve – hay bales, stone, timber and clay – so that the material quality is a direct articulation of the site.
10. Sketches of towering sundial (UNIT+ 2012)
FLOATING MEDITATION ROOM
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11. Sketch model of floating meditation room (UNIT+ 2012)
The meditation room is influenced by one of Bartoletti’s descendants, Nicolo, who practises crystal and bell therapies. The platform that floats on the water rises and falls according to the seasonal water collection. The structure itself is a 7 pillared supported triangular pavilion (symbolising the 7 chakras), which can be completely opened to the outside through a shuttered façade. This allows complete connection to the outside world while still responding to the particular climate and weather of the day.
12. Sketches 13. “Comunita’ of floating esistenziale”: meditation rendered room (UNIT+ view2012) of the street level
OPEN AIR STUDIO
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13. Landscape in the reserve
Through the creation of objects such as pieces of furniture and forms of shelter, locations in the reserve will be redefined as destinations and, as these material interventions will suggest, become designated for particular types of activity.
14. Concept image of open air studio (UNIT+ 2012)
TREE MAPPING
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15. 1:1 Test of tree mapping (UNIT+ 2012)
It is common for people to become lost in the vastness of the reserve. Currently, visitors must call the park keeper and wait to be found. The proposed coloured navigation system is uses specific coloured material tied to trees to designate particular ‘zones’, which, in turn, aids navigation back to the centre of the reserve.
16. Concept image of tree mapping (UNIT+ 2012)