ALbero TOrtile I urban
AL.TO. is a furniture on an urban scale, designed with natural materials, sustainable and recyclable such as wood.
Design research
- design research: use of aesthetic forms related to the identity of the historical place and functional integration and formal with the context. The game of transparency, between empty and full, makes AL.TO. perfectly inserted in the main square of the city in compliance architectures contour creating a scenic backdrop completely innovative and exciting.
The square
The star of the square, while maintaining its simple composition, AL.TO. calls to mind the ancient spiral columns of the Cathedral: a new interpretation, a succession of square sections in sequence "golden" are repeated hythmically, rotate around the center and shrink until it reaches the top.
Ecological sustainability
The project exposes a cultural pattern based on: - ecological sustainability: using wood mission FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) as a natural product, sustainable, renewable and little energy consuming. The use of wood in the project follows precise parameters concerning the ethical and cultural regeneration of the place, to the respect of ecosystems and greater knowledge of those who are the current projected ecological problems in the near future. The wood is a harmless: its disposal in nature does not represent a threat to the environment.
Use of technologies with low environmental impact
- Use of technologies with low environmental impact: low consumption illumination, mounting system dry and without the use of adhesives and paints pollutants;
Techniques and participatory processes of creative recycling
- Techniques and participatory processes of creative recycling: Reuse of fir boards, obtained by the removal of the ALbero TOrtile, to promote moments of co-creation with users of the site for the construction of street furniture in favor of the use of space.