Biblioteca Parque Espana Designer: Giancarlo Mazzanti
Location: Santo Domingo, Colombia
Image Credits: Sergio Gomez By exploiting the landscape Giancarlo Mazzanti ensures the visibility of his building, in a far more sustainable way. In Rome the axes had to be cut through the existing fabric, as Haussmann also did in Paris. For this library the landscape already ‘naturally’ provides that structure. Instead of a road axis, a cable car connects the valley with the library. How brilliant is that! The cable cars silently float over the city, needing only some masts to keep it all up. It’s a very clean way of transport too, I think. The major and only disadvantage of such cable car system is that it mostly only connects two points… → www.eikongraphia.com Posted: 01/03/2009 digg | del.icio.us | stumble | email this

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