BORBONIC TANK

Two oppositely inclined metallic elements denote the entrance to the hypogeal volume, which can be reached through a lift system enclosed within a box of weathering steel.

At the lowest level, the entrance to the tank is pointed out by a metallic net curtain, whose strip is lifted by stressed tie rods, resembling the pages of a book. This element aims to represent a temporal limit between two moments: the living present and the one when the tank was built, distant in time but merged in the human need to observe the past to elaborate the future.

The environment, partially filled with water to keep the memory of its use alive and tinted in total black up to the free surface, in order to heighten the effect of deepness, becomes both background and support of the walkway system, hypothesized on horizontal adjustable elements, able to provide a variable geometry system, sort of a dock remodulable according to the needs.

The illumination concurs to the general suggestion with overflow-designed elements. From the surface of the water, the light weaken in intensity, with a smooth fading to the cross vaults and a overall rarified perception built on the warm tones of 2700K light bulbs, which are able to artificially resemble the effect of the torches that were used at the time of the realization of the tamk.