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Urban Light Installation / Cross-border Cartography
International Competition
Gorizia, Italy / Nova Gorica, Slovenia, 2020
Hieroglyphs of Light is an urban floor-light installation conceived as a luminous cartography between Gorizia and Nova Gorica.
The project works with light as a form of writing on the ground: a system of signs, traces and crossings that reveals the memory of the former border while activating new transversal connections between both cities.
A discontinuous line of light follows the trace of the former border, marking absence, interruption and memory. Across it, continuous lines of light create transversal movements, gestures and relationships, transforming the old division into a field of crossings.
The installation blurs the perception of the border through illumination. What was once a line of separation becomes a nocturnal language of connection — a series of luminous hieroglyphs inscribed across the public floor.
Former border line: discontinuous light
Transversalities: continuous light
This urban regeneration project connects the two cities of Gorizia, Italy, and Nova Gorica, Slovenia. The cross-border competition addressed the challenge of uniting a city once divided by a border that no longer exists as a physical barrier within today’s European Union.
Client: EGTC GO, Municipality of Nova Gorica and Municipality of Gorizia
Endorsed by: International Union of Architects — UIA
Programme: Urban cross-border concept, Europe Square and Transcultural Hub EPICenter
Location: Gorizia, Italy / Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Year: 2020
Authors: Karla Montauti and Juan Vicente Pantín
Team assistance: Pablo Zapata and José Vicente Fazio
Renders: Pablo Zapata and Karla Montauti