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Wood is De Lucchi great ally. It seems that you come into harmony with this natural material and handle it. It is like that?
I like wood more than any other material because it comes from the earth and it is born from nature. The architecture must always maintain a link with its surroundings and often the material helps to do so. The beauty of the wood comes from the fact that the more you work it, the more you handle and know it and the more the head creates possible inventions and ways to treat it. So you never finish designing wood.
In your works glass plays with natural light. Large windows that give the feeling of living directly outside…
Glass is another material that exists to create a dialogue between man artificial space and natural landscape. The organization of space in an interior perception of the context is crucial because the man continues to feel himself as a part of it. One of my latest works, the chapel of St. James in Auerberg in Germany, is a small inside, fully enclosed in itself, where only the light filters through the little windows in wood. Here the glimpse of the landscape is restricted to a glass oculus on the back wall, from which is visible a cross planted in the area surrounding the chapel.
Wood and light make me think of the entrance of the Public Library of Lodi, for me a work of art. How to combine immense spaces with the functionality of a service to the community not leaving anything to chance?
The answer is in the design of architectural adaptation, where a library is now understood as a place of consultation and book loaning but also as a social gathering. In compliance with the architectural constraints have been put in communication the cells of what was once the home of the Oratorian Fathers in order to ensure the orientation of the visitor. For the use of the interior of the building has been created a loop. The functions of the library and civic center were separated and allocated into two different areas. The new portal in wood and glass connects via Solferino with Corso Umberto, enriching the Library of the value of a place of transit within the city.
Speaking of light, why not to think of Ptolemy, so current, “despite his age”, a great success that continues over time
I always tell my students to copy this lamp without fear of being criticized. The same data by Ptolemy is copied from Naska Loris, from Tom, from Anglepoise and all the more efficient lamps arm who were born before me.
