Studio Fink：The location of the temporary Piazza Rosa project is Piazza Vecchia ( Old Square ) in Bergamo Italy a Renaissance square, that Le Corbusier called “ the most beautiful square in Europe”. The square was planned and built in the XVth century as the social and political centre a hilltop medieval town later surrounded by 17th-century cyclopic defensive walls. As a jewel of a renaissance town the square is enriched and surrounded by remarkable historical architecture such as the Palazzo del Comune, Palazzo della Ragione, the Cathedral, St. Maria Maggiore and the Colleoni Chapel. Today the square is a focus of the artistic and cultural life in the predominantly pedestrianized Old City whilst the main economic and business activity is located outside the defensive walls. 

The main aim of the project was to create a thought provoking platform drawing public attention to the positive importance and implications of place making and contemporary landscaping ideas. The temporary transformation of a major historical space on this scale has proved an irresistible attraction to people of all ages drawing close to quarter million people into the square over sixteen days of its existence during day and night time.

罗莎广场设计的目的是与当代概念和艺术进行对话，同时结合“治愈”景观和社会环境可持续的主题。在概念层面上，设计旨在通过对我们感官的创造性探索，大胆地运用色彩、形状、气味和种植的纹理来更新艺术和景观设计之间的关系。各种各样的草本植物和药用植物、树木和灌木都是按照健康绿色的标准来选择的。

该广场也成功地为当地人、外人和游客提供了一个双重平台，是一个积极的、引人注意的新空间，其经济交流和社会互动性得到了显著的增长。

The Piazza Rosa design aimed at a dialogue of contrasts with a strong contemporary conceptual and artistic emphasis whilst bearing in mind the theme of healing landscape and social/environmental sustainability. On a conceptual level the design aimed to renew the relationship between art and landscape design through a creative exploration of our senses, a bold use of colour, shapes, smells, and texture of planting. The wide variety of herbal and medicinal plants, trees and shrubs were chosen following the criterion of healing and well-being.

As a new space it successfully also provided a dual platform for local people, outsiders and tourists.  This was also experienced as a positive and noticeable rise in the economic exchange and social interactions in the surrounding Old Town.

©Leonardo Tagliabue

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项目名称: 罗莎广场

客户: 贝尔加莫市

地点: 意大利贝尔加莫

日期: 2014年

照片版权: Leonardo Tagliabue

设计: Studio Fink Peter Fink

种植设计: StudioGPT Lucia Nusiner

照明设计: Maurizio Quargnale

Project name: Piazza Rosa

Client: Bergamo City

Location: Bergamo Italy

Date: 2014

Photo credit : Leonardo Tagliabue

Design: Studio Fink Peter Fink 

Planting: StudioGPT Lucia Nusiner

Lighting: Maurizio Quargnale