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case study no.5
Aldo Rossi Monument to the Resistance at Cuneo

a stair to an opening above. The light of the time of day moves down and around the stairs through the opening of entry. This is the foretelling of the room to be in and to look up and back through and down. The opening on the opposite façade is a horizontal band that allows only a certain light to pass through. Very intentional and prescriptive light.

To know one’s place is the allowance here.

the orientation is determined by importance of views to the mountains. the long window frames the battle sites at eye level.

[this could be a tower?] the walk up such stairs to a purposeful standing creates the question of how long the time of travel or from where and to where is one going.

case study no.4
Aldo Rossi Bridge at Belinzona

in looking at the bridge, an understanding of horizontal and vertical movement is the main objective. The idea of bridge is a middle, a mediator, a connection, an in between of the two places coming and/or going. To move up is to gain access to the horizontal through and out. Either inside of or on top of. An undulation of sections show the change in grade of an already existing element that the bridge then moves over. To pass from one side to the other entails an either going up and over or across and through. If on the ground, the need to move vertically before going to one side is understood. Also, there is a passing through the middle, the void created by the two towers. An inside. There is a reflected passage through as well in the ground level of the stair towers.

An understanding of coming from and going to is revealed in the bridge of the bridge. The crossover.