Marco Navarra – NOWA

Strip Park

The project is a part of a general hypothesis for re‑using the old railway line, that connected Caltagirone with Piazza Armerina and Dittaino. The railway’s abandoned real estate, its slow deterioration, the transformation into ruins; this has all acquired an unsuspected role and form. These buildings, like magic boxes, permit us to see and discover the landscape. The park, like estrange machine, disassembles and reassembles the worldly things we know.

The project tries to define a light infrastructure, gained from a regeneration of objects that have found different forms and reasons for remaining. We propose, therefore, a transformation which acts through small significant transfers and changes capable of giving new power to all of the resources available.

This naturalistic walk must be considered as a newly conceived infrastructure, that, innervating a linear park developed on the solid railway, is made up of a row of cypresses and a compact and variegated ground surface along the sides of which are planted rows of bushes.