Insidious Objects

Insidious Objects: Thinking on a "Quality-less" Street

Our project is an exploration of the possibilities of articulating a "quality-less" street (Via Terracina) by infiltrating its edge. From the street and its sidewalk, light filaments branch out, discreetly penetrating the dense northern boundary of the exhibition grounds and the rear areas of the university buildings. This penetration targets the most vulnerable points of the edge, but also those where the crossing becomes an opportunity to immerse oneself in a surprising landscape: archaeological remains, sections of the boundary to be restored, back sides of service buildings, distinguished yet long-abandoned entrances.

It is as if a persistent exercise in reticence, prolonged over time, were suddenly unveiled. This collection of overlooked, unused, and aphasic spaces, relegated to a phantom-like existence, could—within the chaotic urban landscape of the context—assert, with discretion and timidity, a minimal protagonism and a dignified presence.

The collection of proposed elements—gateways, suspended walkways, portals, new accesses, and inclined platforms—serve as a simple mechanism to open a new perspective for the street and a new relational front for the complex Mostra d’Oltre Mare-University system.

In the lot that includes the former Masseria, the intervention aims to make a volumetrically determined gesture, marking the boundary of this landscape composed of "insidious" yet discreet objects.