Platform_Architecture_and_Design_1.pdf

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The Torre del Mare Architectural
Park is a project resulting from the
partnership between the Architect
Marco Ciarlo whose studio is at Altare
and the surveyor Laura Garello from
the Town of Bergeggi (SV), and which
focuses on the buildings designed by
the Milanese architect Mario Galvagni
and created at Torre del Mare between
1954 and 1960. During the middle of the
1950s, the young architect Galvagni
was given the task of creating a series
of holiday houses by the entrepreneur
Piero Tizzoni. The construction of a
series of buildings and street furniture
traced the lines of development for the
ex novo urbanization of the Torre del
Mare promontory. In fact, the different
housing systems proposed by the
architect Galvagni develop depending
on the different morphological
situations in a continuous dialogue
with the surrounding nature and
they become a creative interpretation
of the territory, thus giving life to a
new landscape. For this reason the
establishment of the Architectural
Park is highly significant since it is
intended to be both a celebration and
a safeguard of these works, witnesses
as to how an example of architecture
strongly inspired by the setting can
develop buildings, architecture and
urban systems that take on an elevated
environmental and naturalistic value,
which is a principal characteristic of
the place in which they are located.
According to Galvagni, his creations
were “born in symbiosis with the
aesthetic morphology of the location,
the light and the soil and with feelings
and sentiments shared with both the
client and the workers who built them”.