3ndy Studio (architecture and design) is dedicated to the renovation of Campiello's
weathering steel, which was put into use in September 2011. The project achieved the goal of retraining important parts of Vigonovo and realized the new center of social integration with the development of history.
Returning to life and bringing it back to the ancient glory means to recall the voices, historical fragments, fragments of daily life and traditions that live in it, all of which can be found and traced on a piece of paper. In Campiello's
weathering steel project, this huge piece of paper has been turned into a large sculpture made of 190 sheets of
weathering steel, spread over 300 square meters, and will be regarded as a huge and mysterious book page.
The idea is to present again the design of the nineteenth-century building, destroyed by a fire. Performing a reconstruction of this building might have been a chance but it would have been false, so we decided to take the way of commemoration.
The facade designed by 3ndy Studio reproduce the dimension of the destroy one, but however suggests the spot of time on the plaster. In order to complete the facade and make it an exclusive one. 3ndy Studio under suggestion of Philippe Daverio, asked Giorgio Milani, a sculptor from Piacenza, to take part in this big artistic operation.
Milani wrote on this page, enriching by using fullness and emptiness due to the words of the alphabet carved from the panels of
corten steel. From here has been born “ Footfalls echo in the memory”, a work of lettering, which means composing letters and symbols carefully chosen by the artist, Giorgio Milani, according to their nineteenth-century origin (the age in which this building as been built) and their aesthetics dress, balancing 22 different alphabets, upper-case and lower-case letters, of different fonts in order to have an aesthetic and cultural harmony.
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