Castrum

2A+P/A (Gianfranco Bombaci e Matteo Costanzo) and Angelo Grasso
Castrum

Country: Italy
Year: 2009
Duration: 6'30''

In a cold, cold land. The Mayor of the City decided to create a new settlement. He did not want to conceive just a city plan, but to reveal a new emotion, a new political vision. He loved to repeat a sentence "the city is too important to put it into the hands of the architects". Many meetings and workshops with citizens were organized to decide how to go forward with this new project. The Mayor invited a famous urban planner to the workshop, who showed pictures and drawings of many urban models. People were always happy seeing pictures of public spaces, squares, courtyards, gardens etc... otherwise they were just a bit afraid - fearful of those projects made by the very famous masters, drawn by urban planners as "heroes". But how to organize such a complex system? What form will the city be? This was the problem: can the desires of the community be shown black on white?

Gianfranco Bombaci and Matteo Costanzo founded the associate studio 2A+P/A in 2009 in Rome. From 2005 to 2008 they were associated with the 2A+P architecture studio. In 2008 they presented work at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, and participated in the Festarch in Cagliari and in the UIA Congress in Turin.

Angelo Grasso conducts research between architecture and design. He collaborates with Vanessa Beecroft as an exhibition designer and has worked at ma0/emmeazero studio in Rome.

Video selected by Image ARCHIVE http://www.image-web.org/archive for VISIONS, the 9th edition of the BEYOND MEDIA festival http://www.beyondmedia.it.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Architecture
• City
• Video
• BEYOND
• MEDIA
• Image
• ARCHIVE
• Festival
• VISIONS