Alexander Petrounine.

Status: Completed
Location: Weil der Stadt, DE
Partners: @urbanes.land, @bw.im, @stadt_weil_der_stadt
Team: Lorenza Manfredi, Lukas Riegel, Marie-Lise Hofstetter, Lisa Gross, Lorenzo Malloni, Caterina Selva, Molly Hawkins
Client: Camposaz
Team: Alessandro Betta, Irene Terenzi, Alexander Petrounine
Photography: Marie-Lise Hofstetter, Alexander Petrounine

Reclaiming space for pedestrians and children by taking it away from cars is the project’s main objective, developed for Weil der Stadt in collaboration with Urbanes.Land. At the entrance to the town's school complex, which houses a nursery, kindergarten, primary, and secondary schools, several small and modular temporary structures occupy the space around the bus stop, preventing illegal car parking while extending the area where children can play.

The design and positioning of these structures are conceived in dialogue with other art installations, which contribute in developing a path along one of the town's main streets. This project transformed this street an area where pedestrians and bicycles have priority. Imagining the street as a river and the area in front of the schools as a gulf, the structures are configured as islands that allow people to stop and rest while waiting for the bus or to play, imagining stories and landscapes.