Un mondo d’amore has been designed to enhance a complex urban junction, in front of the Triennale palace in Milan, where a net of wires and mirrors of light have been designed to turn important resources of the city from passive to active. Through the interaction of light with surfaces, the design achieves the goal to educate and tell about existing resources and their respect. On the other hand, the activation of this awareness allows to experience a new urban quality. In fact, light activates:
1 – a new environmental quality. It enlightens the near park and the bridge over the railway, covered with a surface that reminds a flowery meadow; at the same time it encourages natural processes, such as photosynthesis, and it interacts with photocatalytic paints according to the equation: 1 square meter of active surface = 200 cube meters of fresh air.
2 – a new social quality. It lights up a residential space normally in the dark, making routes and points of connection safer.
3 – a new perceptive quality. It provides to citizens a new vision of the whole area, literally “reflected and illuminated” by mirrors; this creates a synergic perception of light, colour and space, completing a visual and emotional experience communicating positive values.
“Un mondo d’amore” is therefore an installation in which light tunes the space of nature, city and humans opening a responsible and contemporary vision on the future of the city.
