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Architects: Messner Architects
- Year: 2015
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Photographs:Courtesy of Messner Architects
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Text description provided by the architects. The project starts in 2012 when MESSNER Architects and sculptor Franz Messner were commissioned by the Fondazione Dolomiti-Dolomiten-Dolomites-Dolomitis to create architectonic, landscaping and graphic standards for look-outs/info-structures in hot spot areas of the World Hertitages Site Dolomiti UNESCO in order to enhance the value and popularity of the territory.
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After the development of a prototype, the Department of Natural Reserves (Ripartizione natura, paesaggio e sviluppo del territorio) of the Provincia di Bolzano in Northern Italy, commissions the construction of a first Look Out on Monte Specie at 2,305m a.s.l. in County of Dobbiacco. Construction is completed in mid-July 2015.
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The main idea is to create a info-structure with a very strong connection to its context.Considering the highly sensible surroundings of this alpine region, we rather transform the landscape, instead of adding discrete pieces to it.
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By „raising" the soil we obtain the top of the platform, which partly floats above the ground. The outer perimeter is made of steel, filled with rubble/material from the site. The constraints between building and context blur.
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A small canyon leeds to a circular opening in the center of the platform, where informations is stored. A circular index made of stainless steel shows the visible summits. Further information about the landscape and the geology of the Dolomites is found on the outer skirt of the index.
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