"Monfalcone is in the province of Shanghai" Enrico Arosio 's not a star architecture. But the Chinese won. To create a new town of 100 thousand inhabitants
No, he for the office of the 500, 500 entrepreneurs and made in Italy brought to China by Romano Prodi,
did not participate. In those days in September while the prime minister, four ministers and 12 regional delegations
swirled between Beijing and Shanghai from hundreds of bilateral meetings, he, the architect Francesco Morena
he was in Monfalcone Gorizia. Thinking about what? A Tong Li.
the town of Tong Li, one of the oldest (archaeological traces of 5000 years ago) and more protected,
Unesco heritage since 2000, half an hour's drive from Shanghai, Tong Li, and also to the future, the new town
100-thousand people to design and implement in the coming years, who knows how many.
is a new story coming from the Northeast. The adventure of an "architect of the province" (his words) that
without the help of Prodi, Berlusconi, a minister, Confindustria, ICE in the region, a
party, a lobby, but only thanks to his work and his ideas, found an Eldorado in Asia. The leap in quality
. The occasion is the vita.Chi Francesco Morena architect of the province? It is a professional foreign
the Italian star system, up to now: his presence at the Biennale Architecture (with a visit and praise the president Davide Croff
) is also the end of his anonymity. The project Tong Li is a mission to shake the wrists
: comprehensive plan for restoring one of the finest historic cities in China, a sort of Venice
small lakes; master plan and design the new city, development of a belt
ecological based on a model of environmental sustainability that is news here recently. All in a society with
Chinese colleague, indeed "a great and true friend," says Morena showing a picture of two of them discussing
with sweeping gestures in front of a stone door of some kind of dynasty. The friend I was Qiu (read: I Chou),
artist and architect of the Tiananmen generation, a head end, a star of the intelligentsia under 50
of Shanghai. How did all that?
Morena is Monfalcone, a town of yards behind the Carso, in front of the sea. He lives in Duino, water, not far from the castle where he stayed
Rilke and charmed the British travelers and Danube. He has fifty
short hair, blue eyes with a metallic glow. She is wearing black pinstripe jacket and T-shirt Versace
looked like a German, plus a black Porsche Carrera with mustard-colored leather interior. A
Frankfurt, looks a bit ', has left a German ex-wife, with her son. Porsche reports the first money
Chinese? He chuckles, his new studio in Monfalcone, 1,200 square feet in a building designed by him
with large windows next to the church of St. Ambrose, it will cost over one million 200 thousand euro. Morena
has a curious former life. He graduated in Venice with Aldo Rossi, in the early eighties he was uncertain whether to keep or
the architect as a pianist and blues singer with his band Venice. "In Germany
I played a lot, but also in Los Angeles, and worked, We cut something, "says:" A
Frankfurt was the time of the project 'Das neue neue Frankfurt', I studied well, because I saw them arise, the construction of new museums
Richard Meier and Hans Hollein. I opened a studio, I worked two years, then went back into
Italy. I thought I would be what I felt, a local architect, who works at home ".
He was wrong. It began with homes, houses, shops, houses. Then condominiums, hotels, shopping centers,
Fincantieri ship interiors, then shopping center next generation, those who have covered
'Schei' Northeastern many entrepreneurs. Finally, the restoration of a large disused mining area in south-
Brussels, be transformed into The Citadel, neighborhood, multi-use residential, shopping, sports fields
and a little 'holes of mineurs as memory and as an attraction.
"But I was missing something. I felt that I was changing, looking for more quality, more depth, more meaning," says Morena
while attacking a scorpion fish baked in front of the calm sea of \u200b\u200bDuino: "More than a
architect seemed to be a waiter in a fancy restaurant. The managers felt the pay.
And the neo-baroque architecture in this era had come, from Vanity Fair, and technology exhibited
self-congratulation. And I was starting to wonder: do the new shopping center, but we
citizens live better? Either we are all approved, a bit 'like the turbo effect? With the station-wagon at traffic lights
that scoured more than me in the Porsche? ".
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In 2004 comes the lightning. From Switzerland, is discharged in China and illuminates his old studio
in Monfalcone. A society of Lugano working with Chinese developer, the Eurofinanziaria invites Morena
to hold a conference in a big hotels in Shanghai on relations between China and European architecture.
Morena is not trained on the study and is thrown . The intervention like.'s a message arrives from a manufacturer, but Xiao Ping:
wants to know. The result is the assignment for a hotel of 500 rooms, fish-shaped, sloping to the sea, and
other buildings on an island in front of Shanghai connected to the mainland by a bridge of 32 km.
"Employment relationships in China are consolidated in a long time," says Morena: "If you want to design and sell
make money on the fly, is the wrong place. You have to build friendship and trust. And I would also exchange
spiritual. But he has spoken with the relationship between earth and sky, guidance Feng-Shui.
like nothing ever happened with my Italian customers. " The Chinese surprise: "For their narcissism," he says. But it is clear their
admiration for Italian culture, built on individuality, subjectivity, the authors of grand gestures.
Chinese entrepreneurs have the Mi Qiu, an artist and architect who had emigrated after Tiananmen Square in
Sweden, Germany and France. Magro, nice, well educated, long hair rock star.
become friends talking about everything, archeology, philosophy, music. "All night talking with a spontaneity as
not happen to me since I was a boy." I introduced him to the administration of Qiu Tong Li,
the governor of the province. Tong Li, old and new, it is theirs. The project covers 4 million square meters
six times the area of \u200b\u200bMilan-Bicocca. For three people his office has grown to twenty, from evening to morning.
The Chinese developer who will land in concession for 50 years have financial partners in Switzerland. It
must return, after its restoration, the old town to the inhabitants. Here, domestic tourism grew by 200 per cent
few years. To design the new city, in a complex topography of lakes and canals, woods
intact, but also light bluish mists and gray, we need to create teams of specialists, planners, landscapers
, mobility experts. "We will make an Italian team," Moreno has already contacted his colleague Aldo Cibic
Veneto. We must value the important buildings on the water, the town hall, theater, convention center
, think about hotels, area business and residential areas: a huge amount. His first Reference
European development in the sea in Barcelona. Will it work? The computer is a picture of him with me Qiu
in a forest along with the governor: "Romulus and Remus," she smiles. It seems incredulous, and all adrenaline. "In the beginning
China is very, very slow. It takes patience and modesty. But once you leave you do not stop anymore."
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