Discovering the Alps.
Art, Landscape, Architecture: Designing the Future
An emotional storytelling journey through the pathways of a widespread exhibition across the territory.
The Fort of Exilles hosted the heart of the exhibition: its central piece was the Metavisual Model, an innovative multiprojection system on a model using three-dimensional videomapping, capable of offering a captivating overview of the Susa Valley. It places the Fort and its historical events in a broad and contemporary perspective.
Additionally, within the Fort’s halls, visitors could consult ancient volumes about the Alps, thanks to two advanced digital bookstands; explore the semantic interweavings in toponymy, with the aid of videographics that intersected languages and cultures, signifiers and meanings; and view the Alps from multiple perspectives simultaneously, thanks to a multi-screen wall dedicated to the landscape’s progressive transformations by climate and, inevitably, human action.
The Diocesan Museum of Susa was the setting for a multiprojection aimed at delving into the dimensions of mystery and sanctity. Here, the space within the magnificent Church that houses part of the Museum was electronically modeled to break through perspective and extend the view to the sacred peaks worldwide, proposing a panoramic, high-definition, moving scene.
In Bardonecchia, the theme of modernity as the threshold of mountain change was tackled: a narrative around the discovery, invention, and conquest of new dimensions of the Alpine space; towards the relationship between city and mountain; towards the physical transformation of the Alpine territory and its connected architectures; and finally, towards eco-sustainability and future resettlement projects.
Considering the theme of the exhibition – unwinding along an ideal vertical axis from the city plains to the Alpine peaks – and guided by the layout of the Palazzo delle Feste in Bardonecchia – spread over several floors with a large central void – it was decided to narrate all this with a large multiprojection on a horizontal board, clearly visible from the balconies of the upper floors, where the visit continued. The multimedia setups were completed by ten monitors where a decomposition of elements from vintage postcards proposed, as with the horizontal board, a fascinating journey back in space and time.
Client: Mountain Museum
Locations: Fort of Exilles, Diocesan Museum of Susa, Palazzo delle Feste in Bardonecchia
