FRAMES - The framework of the landscape of Alzano Lombardo
Former cement factory Italcementi placed in Alzano Lombardo, Bergamo
12th-19th September 2015
After a long work of analysis of the landscape of Alzano Lombardo OKAM Studio will show its description of the structure and the history of the city.
The aim of the exhibition is to give the citizens of Alzano Lombardo elements to understand the current structure of the city and help them to interpret the environment where they live.
The exhibition is the outcome of the work of the four architects from OKAM Studio, who have cooperated with the municipality of Alzano Lombardo.
The exhibition is dedicated to anyone interested in the urban and social dynamics, due to its simplified research easy to understand even by non-experts. OKAM Studio's research focuses on the transformations of important areas and places of memory in Alzano explaining how they have changed throughout the years.
The title of the exhibition " Frames" refers to the scaffolding used in construction sites on which a series of graphic tables are hung. The tables represent the territory of the city decomposed so that the audience can see the essential parts that constitute the municipality of Alzano Lombardo.
“Frames" are as well images, fragments of the city that Francesco Deiana of Sartoria Video has gathered together in an evocative video that gives a new interpretation of the areas of Alzano, showing a new reality of shapes and spaces that recall the real structure of the city.
For this reason the former cement factory of Italcementi is the best location for the exhibition as it is a no longer in use industry that was historically important for the city and for the industrial development of Valle Seriana , the area that covers the district of Bergamo.
