“The colours of green: sustainable stone” Marmomacc Meets Design 2012 by Umbrella Press Office, photos by © Andrea Astesiano
T Pietre si rinnova, facendo riflettere sulla spiritualità della pietra. Montagne di pietre e scarti di lavorazione, dove scorre acqua e nascono piante ed erba perché la pietra è viva. Grazie all’intesa con Testi Group, Tobia Scarpa ha potuto proporre una riflessione sul potenziale della natura e sulla qualità del rapporto dell’uomo con essa. Massimiliano Caviasca ha trattato la pietra altoatesina di Fuchs a elemento decorativo così come la natura lo offre, con lavorazioni e tagli ridotti al minimo: “la pietra fuoriesce dalla montagna presentandosi per ciò che è”. Per Lucy Salamanca la sfida è stata destrutturare e rileggere il porfido di Odorizzi Porfidi, reinterpretandolo e associandolo ad acqua, terra e fuoco. L’azienda ha lavorato per la prima volta il materiale in una concezione diversa dalle tradizioni: il duro porfido diventa malleabile. Il marmo, materiale naturale e antichissimo reca con sé un patrimonio estetico, culturale e progettuale che lo pone in sintonia con la riscoperta del senso ecologico, ambientale e paesaggistico: questo è stato il “leitmotiv” che ha accomunato il pensiero e i progetti di Marmomacc Meets Design 2012.
he recently-concluded sixth consecutive edition of Marmomacc Meets Design this year faced companies and designers with the topic of sustainability equally emphasised by a return to natural materials. All the projects presented conveyed a new way of working and then using stone material, which everyone has at last realised is a rare and nonrenewable resource. The theme “The Colours of Green: Sustainable Stone” was the pretext for conveying boarder and more intense messages in harmony with nature and ethics. Sustainability is by now a vital factor for civilised society and should be seen as a new sense of responsibility whereby we are all involved in the world. Every designer invited to Marmomacc developed a metaphor to express this urgent need for modernity and respect for nature: Lorenzo Damiani with Calvasina managed to give marble unexpected lightness and flexibility, through sustainability not calculated at the end of the production cycle but upstream of the design stage itself. The “homeland” was inspiration behind the project by Irish studio Grafton Architects, which turn the Pibamarmi stand into a kind of abstract landscape. Lorenzo Palmeri interpreted the materials of Stone Italiana by processing natural material as if it had been exposed to the work of atmospheric elements. The design approach taken by Zaha Hadid Studio sought to
create a language intended to interpret the geological events of a material generated from the earth. The constructive skills of Citco expressed a complex yet smooth geometry. The “Lecce Stone” of Pi.Mar. inspired architects Luca Scacchetti and Cinzia Anguissola to experiment with the endless colour combinations made possible by interaction between light and processing style. The collaboration between Setsu & Shinobu Ito and Grassi Pietre continued with renewed attention to the spirituality of stone. Mountains of stone and processing waste, where water flows and plants and grass can grow because stone is a living thing. Thanks to the understanding achieved with Testi Group, Tobia Scarpa was able to put forward thoughts about the potential of nature and the quality of human relationships with it. Man must hallmark his passage by improving the universe surrounding him. Massimiliano Caviasca processed Altoatesina Stone by Fuchs as a decorative element just as it comes from nature, with minimal processing and cuts: “the stone emerges from the mounting to present itself exactly for what it is”. While the challenge for Lucy Salamanca was to de-structure and re-interpret the porphyry worked by Odorizzi Porfidi, reinterpreting and associating it with water, earth and fire. The company processed this material for the first time in an unconventional manner: hard porphyry was turned into something malleable.
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