“I would like to transform a simple road tunnel into something extraordinary, but above all to eliminate the violent division that it currently produces between a series A and a series B Ancona, between the center and the suburbs. I am working on behalf of the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, but soon I will be in Ancona. I want to bring beauty back to architecture.” The world-famous engineer and designer Enzo Eusebi will soon get to work, called by the municipal councilor for public works, Stefano Tombolini, to transform and revolutionize the interior of the Risorgimento gallery. For now there have been few meetings between the two, but the agreement seems total and based on mutual respect.
In fact, at the moment there is a basic design idea that will aim to change the general plant structure of the tunnel which in fact, as underlined by the San Benedetto professional himself, connects the suburbs to the city center. Soon the ideas will be discussed and applied, but in the meantime Eusebi’s intention seems quite clear. The municipal administration will soon budget, through an ad hoc variation, the intervention on the Risorgimento tunnel in which 400 thousand euros will be invested. Works that will concern exclusively the internal part: new lighting, much more attractive, energizing and compatible, new filtering and ventilation systems, new signage and services, as well as a structural analysis. Eusebi will be responsible for the creative and innovative part, just as the other artist, Giacomo ‘Run’ Bufarini, is taking care of the two external facades. The first, on the Piazzale della Libertà side, is about to be completed, the second will be discussed again after mid-May (Bufarini has work to follow in Shanghai). From June it will be the engineer’s turn: “I’m really happy with this assignment – Eusebi tells Carlino – and I’m happy that councilor Tombolini remembered me, from the times when we studied together at the engineering faculty of the Polytechnic University of Marche; we who jokingly called ourselves ‘the engineering boys from via Panisperna'”.
The well-known designer and leading lighting expert has worked for a long time far from Italy, from the United States to Georgia where he tells a particular anecdote: “Years ago the former AC Milan defender, Kakhaber Kaladze (mayor of the capital, Tbilisi) called me , ed.) He turned to a Korean group for the work on a bridge, then he turned to me and my team.”
Pierfrancesco Curzi
