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ROUND BLUR

1^stPRIZE - 6^th Prize Artegiovane "Turin Meets... the Art: A Gate for Turin"

PROGRAM: Urban installation
TEAM: 2A+P Architettura / nicole_fvr (Tommaso Arcangioli, Gianfranco Bombaci, Domenico Cannistraci, Lorenzo Castagnoli, Pietro Chiodi, Matteo Costanzo, Valerio Franzone, Angelo Grasso)
COLLABORATORS: Modelab - Marco Galofaro (model), a.titolo / Zebra (communication)
CLIENT: Associazione Artegiovane, Municipality of Turin, GTT
LOCATION: Turin, Italy
AREA: 1.400 m²
STATUS: Invited art competition, 2003 > Completed, 2005

PHOTO: ©Paolo Rosselli for Domus n.885 (October 2005)

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Round Blur is fuzziness, the blurring merging an artificial ground with a natural one. Along the lines of the blur gradient, the asphalt leaves place to the natural soil and vice versa. Through the hybridization of the natural and the artificial, the perception of time and space, the alternation of day and night, and the succession of seasons become malleable factors manageable in an ordered casualness.
Round Blur is the fusion between heathers and artificial catadioptric flowers called catafiori, between synthetic grass and white refractive asphalt. Here, the artificial elements inhabit the inert ground while natural elements bloom from the natural soil.

Round Blur is a colored roundabout during the day and reflects the lights of cars at night. In winter, when nature fades, like a dream at the border between the urban and natural landscape, the square is still a luminescent maze of colors.
Round Blur is an uncertain and fragile place accessible only by tram and observable by cars driving along the roundabout.