These pipes connect various places and spaces of the building together. This work is dedicated to those who will pass by and think about the voices and sounds of the city.

My work for the project Porta Nuova Garibaldi takes shape in the parallel attempt to enter into a relationship with the architecture that welcomes it, on the other with the people who will enjoy that space: citizens, bystanders, casual or daily visitors. The project develops vertically, crossing the architecture for four levels, confronting the limits imposed by the needs of the client, the specific nature of the architecture and the functional obligations of the building. Twenty-three brass-chromed metal tubes extend through the empty cavity that allows the recirculation of the air from the parking floors to the upper ones, linking places and spaces of the architecture that are apparently distant and without a visual relationship. The system of elements in brass chromed metal, not only performs a technical, practical and decorative function - it is a large sculptural balustrade that separates visitors from the caveat - but builds within the architectural body a new map, a geography of sounds which unexpectedly places different points of architecture in relation to each other. It will be the words of the people and the noises of the city that give life to the work and make this, like a great musical instrument in the heart of architecture, able to make sense again a technical space of the building. Through each tube - the material was chosen with its acoustic characteristics in mind - it is possible, by resting the ear to coincide with its opening, to hear sounds, noises, words coming from another point of the building, without knowing which one is or where this is found. The work, like a venous system inside the structure, carries the sounds of the city and the words of the citizens. In this way the great emptiness that thus passes through the architecture will become a device of relationship and not of separation, a box of resonance and propagation. The project will generate a sort of positive gossip, an infinite word of mouth, a metaphor of the very form of the city and of the contemporary information system. On the pavement a short caption is engraved to allow citizens to better understand the meaning of the project. Here is the text: "These pipes connect various places and spaces of the building together. This work is dedicated to those who, passing by, will think of the voices and sounds of the city".