EX MUNICIPIO DI SEGGIANO. Restoration of an abandoned building to house an exhibition on the rural landscape and on the movements
of agriculture. With Gianandrea Gazzola, Vania Gianese.
A new perspective for the most representative building of Seggiano's local identity: restoration, contemporary arts and interpretation of the landscape
The former town hall of Seggiano, a three-storey medieval building in the centre of the historic hamlet, has been restored as a station for the Museum of the Land and of the Olive Tree.
The project has preserved the historic image of the building, while transforming its structures and internal connections. A staircase links the three floors of the former town hall, which are also in visual connection through slender cuts in the new wooden decks.
The lower floor of the building is used as an information and reception centre for the museum. The middle floor serves as a house for the community and for the museum's scientific activities. Finally, the upper floor will house a visual archive of the movements and gestures
of agriculture, which will be documented and displayed.
On the intermediate floor there will be a visual installation by the artist Gianandrea Gazzola on the reading of the landscape, a poetic reinterpretation of real-time images of the territory of Seggiano.
