The courtyard at Rozzol Melara measures two hundred meters on each side, which makes it larger than any square in Trieste. Two L-shaped blocks of exposed concrete enclose it, one of them twice the height of the other, climbing from seven to fifteen stories as the ridge falls away toward the gulf four kilometers below. […]
Our goal was to create a place for the local community with inspiring architecture and environmental awareness - energy-efficient, based on renewable resources, using low-emission, natural materials, and blending into the surrounding nature and local context.
The embankment dissolves into a chain of gentle mounds—undulating along the river's grain, as if wind-swept ripples were spreading across the water, wave after wave washing up the bank, swelling into mounds, spilling into the city's edge. These mounds cradle the warmth of urban life, catch the river breeze, and fold into the breathing contours […]