The Bridge: Euroflora 2025 – Genova
Site: Genova – Padiglione Nouvel
Year 2024 2025
The Bridge reconnected the fragmented landscapes of Euroflora into a single immersive path, where the distant and the tactile met in a continuous flow.
A sequence of over sixty portals shaped a fluid geometric corridor, transforming perception through movement.
The idea that guided the design of the bridge drew from key concepts of the overall project, reflecting on the relationship between the tactile and the visual within the landscape. The landscape could be perceived as a distant backdrop — essentially visual — but also as something close and immersive, something that could be touched. In this sense, the bridge aimed to stitch together the fragments of these “background” landscapes, suggesting a dialogue with a tactile perception that emerged as visitors walked through it.
The bridge was conceived as an organic structure: more than sixty portals with variable sections defined a path that developed freely across the regular grid of the pavilion. From a geometric point of view, it was designed as a succession of sections orthogonal to the tangent of a main curve or spine. These planes intersected four auxiliary curves — modified offsets of the primary one. The portals were defined by connecting corresponding points along these curves, generating a sequence of isostatic structures, each one subtly different from the next.
Architectural Design: Matteo Fraschini Architetto and Urges Srl
Structural Design: Ing. Giovanni Noseda Pedraglio
Construction: Segheria Puppo
Client: Porto Antico di Genova Spa
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