Cardillo

Echoes

Trapani,

The Echoes project is an early version of Cardillo’s degree thesis at the University of Palermo. The architectural project features linear and curvilinear concrete structures for the port at the bottom of Viale Regina Elena, also called Marina. Highlights include distinct and interconnected elements like an osteria, an emporium, a ballroom, and a stage on the water

Text

All things are in the universe, and the universe is in all things.

 

— Giordano Bruno, De l’Infinito, Universo e Mondi (1584)

Some paths lead to places bathed by the sea. They curve against the wind, like the streets of the ancient city of Drepanon.

An osteria, an emporium, a ballroom and a stage on the water, appear distinct and linked according to an urban poetic: towers, piers, a red house on stilts, a petrified ship and a wall opposite the beach.

Each shape changes, as its living together makes it something else. Each part of the building resonates in the other, as in an ancient village, where life and time settle the earth.

, vol. I, Rihan, Hong Kong, June 2010, p. 242.

Data

  • Time: Design (Dec 2001)
  • Place: Viale Regina Elena, Trapani, Italy
  • Area: 6,000 m² (three storeys)
  • Typology: Pier

Images

Echoes
Echoes
Echoes

Publications

2025 – 2010

  • , ‘Simulazione come ermeneutica della realtà’, [television programme], ed. Didi Gnocchi, La7, Milan, 6 March 2025; transcript published on , 6 March 2025.
  • , ‘’, build Das Architekten-Magazin, no. 5/11, ed. Ralf Ferdinand Broekman, Olaf Winkler, Wuppertal, Oct. 2011, p. 46.
  • , ‘’, New Concept Architecture, vol. I, ed. Xing Rihan, Rihan, Hong Kong, June 2010, pp. 242‑247.

Credits

  • Architecture: Antonino Cardillo
  • School: Facoltà di Architettura, Università di Palermo (degree’s thesis tutor: Giovanni Sarta)
  • Translation: Charles Searson