The Bridge: Euroflora 2025 – Genova
Site: Genova – Padiglione Nouvel
Year 2024 2025
Architectural Design: Matteo Fraschini – Urges S.R.L
Structural Design: Ing. Giovanni Noseda Pedraglio
Construction: Puppo Legno
Client: Porto Antico S.P.A.
The idea that drives the design of the bridge draws upon several key concepts from the overall vision, particularly a reflection on the relationship between the tactile and the visual in relation to the landscape. The landscape can indeed be perceived and appreciated as a “distant background,” essentially visual in nature, but also as something close, immersive, and tangible. In this sense, the bridge aims to stitch together fragments of “background” landscapes, which are merely visual, by suggesting a dialogue with tactile perception that can occur through walking within them.
The bridge is conceived as an organic structure: more than sixty portals with variable sections create a pathway that freely traverses the regular grid of the pavilion.
