A place of conflict and play at the same time, a space for contemplation and lively exchanges. Gazes that tend towards the universal.

Fortino does not impose itself as a closed work but as a material vision of a continuous succession of energies; it reveals an interior made up of voids, in open dialogue with the sky and the surrounding nature, revealing itself as both an arena for confrontation and a universal chapel that tends upwards. The work stands as an opening and a passage, a non-place that becomes a place, an attempt to capture the immateriality of the exchange between people, countries, and communities, bringing with it all the complex stratifications of the case. The shape of the Fortino is linked to the world of strategic warfare, made up of waiting and sightings of the other: usually located on border areas, on hills and high ground, these structures served as operational outposts. The two doors invite the f human-human/human-landscape relationships, transforming the material physicality of the work into a living and changing situation.  It is an architecture that does not fulfill its role as a stronghold and protection, but rather reveals an open and vulnerable space: the connection with the ground and the sky, with the other.

Materials: Wooden palisades for viticulture, blue enamel, wire