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Echo Of The Mountain Monument

Echo Of The Mountain Monument 

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Echo Of The Mountain Monument
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STRUCTURE
Opera Mista

MANUFACTURERS
Green Ger , Impresa Edile Astori

ARTISTIC INTERVENTION
Francesco Paterlini

TEAM
Nicolò Galeazzi, Martina Salvaneschi, Mariachiara Cocchiararo, Claudia Crotti, Paola Federici, Nicole Tombini

GRAPHIC DESIGN
Tassinarivetta, Giulia De Benedetto, Tassinarivetta

CULTURAL PARTNER
Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea – Ministero Della Cultura

PARTNERS
Comune Di Dossena, Politecnico Di Torino-dad

COMMISSIONER
Associazione Cultura Dossena

AREA
490 M²

YEAR
2024

LOCATION
Dossena, Italy

CATEGORY
Installations & Structures, Pavilion, Monuments

Echo Of The Mountain Monument
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Echo Of The Mountain Monument
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Echo Of The Mountain Monument
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Text description provided by architect.

The project site is in the center of a natural stone amphitheater, a former mining area, situated on the top of the mountains surrounding the municipality of Dossena.

The earliest settlements in the area date back to the Bronze Age when iron, calamine, and galena mines were discovered. These mines led to the establishment of a stable community around the extraction sites, making Dossena the first settlement in the valley.

Echo Of The Mountain Monument
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Echo Of The Mountain Monument
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The monument ECHO OF THE MOUNTAIN celebrates the memory of all the people who worked in the now-dismissed mining sites of Dossena.

The project consists of a circular enclosure, reminiscent of local wooden fences, embracing a large stone, sculpted by the artist Francesco Paterlini, and isolating it from the surrounding landscape, giving it a symbolic and contemplative nature.

Echo Of The Mountain Monument
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Echo Of The Mountain Monument
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The enclosure consists of a concrete base that extrudes halfway around its circumference, becoming a long seat for community celebrations, and a pyramid-shaped burnt wooden structure that grafts onto the concrete base along its entire length.

Echo Of The Mountain Monument
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Echo Of The Mountain Monument
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Echo Of The Mountain Monument
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Echo Of The Mountain Monument
© Francesco Paterlini
Echo Of The Mountain Monument
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Echo Of The Mountain Monument
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Echo Of The Mountain Monument
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Echo Of The Mountain Monument
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Echo Of The Mountain Monument
© Francesco Paterlini
Echo Of The Mountain Monument
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Echo Of The Mountain Monument
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Plan 01
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Section
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Elevation


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Detail
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Exploded axonometric

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