Paesaggio elettrico

In 2007, the But valley in Carnia was involved in a debate regarding the possibility of burying the power line to finally eliminate the poles that had always dotted the landscape. The assignment, entrusted by Secab, started from the reflection that, in a contemporary vision, the perception of the landscape increasingly passes from instruments that ‘fly over’ the territory, flattening its morphology, characteristics and peculiarities to return it to the homogeneous two-dimensionality of a computer screen. To counter this attitude, every project on a ‘large’ scale should take into account the characteristics and peculiarities of a place in order to establish a dialectical relationship aimed not only at responding to precise needs, but also capable of generating new possibilities. The need to integrate the electrical substations with the landscape was thus answered not only by aiming at the possibility of reducing the visual impact – as envisaged by the Municipal Regulatory Plan – but by providing an added value that would allow the individual, designed objects to constitute a territorial network, thus uniting the points of interest located in this portion of Carnia. This approach allowed for a direct dialogue between the client and the citizens, thereafter building a consensus space where the infrastructure was transformed into new and usable places scattered in the landscape.