Joseph Lo's Portfolio - Landscape Architecture Projects, Studio Projects: Piazza delle Tre Chriese

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Piazza delle Tre Chriese, Gerace Calabria
A Project commissioned by the Gerace Municipality, Italy

Site Gerace Calabria, Italy
Objective Prepare design proposal for the piazza respecting the exciting artifact.
Concept A Contemporary Amphitheater
The site is located at the southern part of Italy. The town was looking for an improvement of the piazza that is located on a slope. In the center of the piazza, there is a small vacant chapel that has a different orientation with the surrounding.
For Italians, the piazza is a stage of daily life where all sorts of activities take place. It draws people in and gives visitors a place to stop and rest. It is, therefore, a theater with subtle settings.
Strategy Inspired by the Roman amphitheater, I proposed a series of rotated rectangular platforms as pavement and steps to link the alien oriented chapel and the sloping site both 2 and 3 dimensionally.
Special pavement patterns will be laid to indicate the doorways of the surrounding buildings as well as to lead from the alleys to the piazza. Two fountains will be set on an axis aligned with the chapel to produce the sound and reflection of nature.

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*Site*		Gerace Calabria, Italy

*Objective*		Prepare design proposal for the piazza respecting the exciting artifact.

*Concept*		A Contemporary Amphitheater The site is located at the southern part of Italy. The town was looking for an improvement of the piazza that is located on a slope. In the center of the piazza, there is a small vacant chapel that has a different orientation with the surrounding. For Italians, the piazza is a stage of daily life where all sorts of activities take place. It draws people in and gives visitors a place to stop and rest. It is, therefore, a theater with subtle settings.

*Strategy*		Inspired by the Roman amphitheater, I proposed a series of rotated rectangular platforms as pavement and steps to link the alien oriented chapel and the sloping site both 2 and 3 dimensionally. Special pavement patterns will be laid to indicate the doorways of the surrounding buildings as well as to lead from the alleys to the piazza. Two fountains will be set on an axis aligned with the chapel to produce the sound and reflection of nature.