Artworks

Radura

Inside forests clearings play a key role. As voids carved into a mass, they represent the condition for the proliferation and multiplication of biodiversity.
Inside the urban environment RADURA - the installation made up of a circle of 350 cylindrical wooden columns, by Stefano Boeri Architetti - has the same meaning: it is the prototype of a public space for decongestion within metropolitan flows. It represents the opportunity to slow down from the hectic lives the metropolis pushes us to live while creating a hybrid space where man and women, children and animals can reconnect with themselves and with the others.
Thanks to its hybrid nature, represents an opportunity to create a strong spatial and symbolic connection between the natural and the anthropic environment. As the clearings in the forests foster biodiversity by creating a vacuum that multiplies life, in the same way RADURA in cities creates a suspension space in which to stop, rest, wait within a generative and regenerative space. But to better understand the meaning of a space as RADURA we need to take a step back and observe our planet from a geological point of view.

Participant

Stefano Boeri

Venue

Outdoor/1F