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Valle Susa
Ciclovia Francigena.
Along the Edges

Equipped areas along the edges of the new cycle route for soft mobility along Susa Valley

 

Bussoleno, Unione Montana (TO) 

Torino, Politecnico di Torino (TO) 

2022

data

1 PhD candidate + 12 architecture student + 2 interior design students + 1 design student (7 universities)

5 countries (Belgium, China, Italy, Lebanon, Turkey)

2 phases: study of the cycle route, model making, woodworking techniques + 6 design+build days

Building box: 6 beams 7x7 cm, 200 cm long, 6 beams 4x4 cm 200 cm long, 25 planks 20 cm width, 200 cm long. 2,5 cm thick, 10 planks 10 cm width, 100 cm long. 2,5 cm thick, all in larch wood and iron fittings

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clients

Unione Montana Valle Susa, Centro culturale diocesano Susa (project: La Via Francigena in valle di Susa. Voci e luoghi per un turismo esperienziale)

 

atelier mobile

Luca Barello, Miriam Quassolo, Francesco Paolo Rolfo, Niccolò Suraci, Cristiano Tosco

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partner

Politecnico di Torino-DAD: Silvia Gron

 

design+build team

Karla Abou Khalil, Dingran Chen, Mirthe Demeer,

Lucia Donetto, Marie-Katrien Driesen,

Leone Ghoddousi, Alberto Gianello, Qixuan Hu, Roberta Longo, Alessandra Mercanti, Emine Merve Ozsoy, Pietro Pontillo, Enrico Vercellino, Giulia Vigna, Han Zhang, Yeuying Zhong

consultant

Jacopo Spatola

 

visiting critics

Marco Navarra (Studio Nowa+Università di Catania), Alberto Geuna

 

photos

atelier mobile, Qixuan Hu

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special thanks to

Eleonora Girodo and Andrea Archinà (Unione Montana Valle Susa), Davide Ligas (Centro culturale diocesano Susa), Corrado Carbonaro and Angela Lacirignola (Politecnico di Torino-LaSTIn), Giulia Bertola (Politecnico di Torino-Mod Lab Arch), Michele Belmondo (CRI-Comitato di Susa)

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sponsor

Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo

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The study of the itinerary of the Ciclovia Francigena, new cycle route for soft mobility in Susa Valley, was deepened by drawing sections of the valley along the route, choosing the nodal points to highlight and proposing ways of interacting with those travelling the route: rest, shelter and play stations, signs, information views and landscape observation points.

​Cross-referencing the first proposals with the available construction system, composed of beams and planks of larch wood recovered from the forest burnt down in Mompantero in 2017, it was decided to develop a modular system of stations, composed of 3x3 metre platforms, bases for different furnishing elements.

​The participants, divided into three groups, through drawings and 1:5 scale models, developed three solutions, each containing different elements in terms of form and function: the first dedicated to signalling, resting and play, the second to resting and shelter, and the third to observation and information, as samples of a system that allows an extensive variety of solutions and compositions.

​​In order to show a tangible example of the consistency of the project, it was also built a full-scale prototype combining elements from the developed solutions.

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