The Great Visby

A tall city-wall enclosing the medieval city, skeletons of ancient churches raising in the squares, an irregular maze of colorful houses shaping the urban fabric. This is the heart of Visby, narrating, through its architecture, a thousand-year-old history. Nevertheless, this narration seems to stop roughly looking outside the city-wall. The project aims to keep alive the memory and allure of the ancient city, adapting to the contemporary standards, to the new economy, and to sustainability requirements. The urban qualities that characterized the beauty of the ancient city for centuries won’t stay just as the memory of a majestic past, but will become the foundation of a new, Great Visby.

AUTHORS
JONATHAN LAZAR (IT), ARCHITECT
EDOARDO CAPUZZO DOLCETTA (IT), ARCHITECT
GABRIELE CAPOBIANCO (IT), ARCHITECT
FLAVIO GRAVIGLIA (IT), ARCHITECT
DAMIANO RANALDI (IT), ARCHITECT
COLLABORATORS
ANTONINO ZAPPULLA (IT), ARCHITECT


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