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Gazebos: Places for a Pleasant Rest and Contemplation
Today, in the absence of projects and the inability to transform our cities, what I have been thinking and planning for a long time might come to our aid: decompression spaces. We should increasingly create spaces designed as moments of suspension, in contrast to the “too much” that characterizes cities: too much noise, too much traffic, too many people, too much air pollution…
Places capable of providing citizens with at least a “remedy” to the inability or impossibility of rethinking our cities; equipped spaces where individuals and small groups can perform rituals, just as in the past, in Italian gardens, there were “gazebos”: music gazebos, love gazebos, tea gazebos, scent gazebos…
Decompression places, then, or to better understand, “gazebos” where one can breathe clean air, smell the roses, listen to the song of the blackbird, play good music, cultivate the arts… They will be microstructures, able to hint at new collective spaces, creating places where art and culture can develop, information can be received and produced, collective rituals aimed at performances can be developed, and social exchanges can be practiced through play and entertainment.
U.L.P.