Raffaele Iandolo: design of public spaces at Grottolella (AV)

The redesign of some public spaces at Grottolella has highlighted the variety of local materials

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A new piazza was designed on the site of the chapel of Santa Maria di Costantinopoli, demolished in the 1950s. The bricks were salvaged from the crypt and the axis of the chapel was realised with paving stones in Breccia Irpina.

A wide range of materials were used in the making of the piazza, worked in a number of different ways: coloured concrete, Bisaccia stone, Bisaccia stone kerbstones with sawn and hammered finish, walls in yellow lavastone, mosaic made with cubes of Vesuvian stone, bricks, limestone, cubes and blocks of porfido, pebbles, Bisaccia limestone, salvaged white limestone, yellow lavastone.

The Pensatoio piazza has been made entirely in slabs of sawn Bisaccia with a natural quarried surface. At the centre sits the Albero del Vento e dell’Amore, winner of the "Premio Dedalo alla Committenza 1999”.

Public road, Grottolella (AV)
Design: Raffaele Iandolo
Artistic works: Giovanni Spinello
Completion: 1997-2001