Linked Cities Museum
International Competition
Client
EGTS GO, Municipality of Nova Gorica, Municipio of Gorizia
Endorsed by
International Union of Architects (UIA)
Location: Gorizia (Italy) + Nova Gorica (Slovenia)
Program: Urban Cross-border Concept, Europe Square, Transcultural Hub EPICenter.
Project Year: 2020
Authorship: Karla Montauti & Juan Vicente Pantín
Assistance: Pablo Zapata, José Vicente Fazio.
Renders: Pablo Zapata and Karla Montauti
Urban regeneration project for connecting the two cities of Gorizia and Nova Gorica by designing a common central area: the Europe Square - Piazzale Della Transalpina and the transcultural hub EPICenter. This crossborder Competition address the problem of uniting a city once divided by a border which no longer exists as a physical barrier in today’s EU.
"Fate be changed, look inside, mend the bond torn by pride." Architecture can be an act of repair. Our project strategy is to design following the path of this line in time: first into the past, burying it, not in order to forget it but as a reminder of human arbitrariness (20th century museum). Then, towards the present, converted into light, a common edge and a space for celebration (Europe Square). And finally towards the future, saying no to divisions and conflicts, making a cross out on the old border. This sign is also a crossroads, a landmark for the new transshipment culture.