TOPIC

Breathing Landscapes. New Interactions Between Lands and Atmospheres investigates the evolving relationships between the built environment, ecological systems, and atmospheric dynamics.

The concept of “atmosphere” assumes a central role, as it designates the “suspended” space in which two opposing approaches and attitudes within architecture and landscape practices interface. On one hand, an approach grounded in analytical and scientific inquiry addresses the physico-chemical elements and processes that influence air quality, working across scales on the spatial and formal conditions of inhabitation between nature and architecture. On the other hand, an approach oriented toward the experiential dimension of architecture and landscape engages with what may be described as common sense—a shared and transmissible body of understanding and experience rooted in a broader community.

Atmosphere, in this context, emerges when architecture — beyond its autonomous trajectory, technical apparatus, and programmatic logic — offers an intentional and perceptive experience of environment, place, and space.

Test Site:
Piacenza – San Damiano Air Base