The school Lusitania Paz de Colombia School by Camilo Avellaneda
is an urban referent that integrates space and pedagogy and which also promotes an educational program where learning is established as a game and an adventure. The challenges and goals are overcome through science and technological tools that allow students to access to a transformative and creative knowledge.
Visitors
can experience this work of art by walking on it from Sulzano to Monte
Isola and to the island of San Paolo, which is framed by The Floating Piers. The mountains surrounding the lake offer a bird’s-eye view of The Floating Piers, exposing unnoticed angles and altering perspectives. Lake Iseo is located 100 kilometers east of Milan and 200 kilometers west of Venice. “Like all of our projects, The Floating Piers
is absolutely free and accessible 24 hours a day, weather permitting,”
said Christo. “There are no tickets, no openings, no reservations and no
owners. The Floating Piers are an extension of the street and belong to everyone.”
The Walkway
A
3-kilometer-long walkway was created as The Floating Piers extend
across the water of Lake Iseo. The piers are 16 meters wide and
approximately 35 centimeters high with sloping sides. The fabric
continues along 2.5 kilometers of pedestrian streets in Sulzano and
Peschiera Maraglio.
“Those who experience The Floating Piers will
feel like they are walking on water – or perhaps the back of a whale,”
said Christo. “The light and water will transform the bright yellow
fabric to shades of red and gold throughout the sixteen days.”
The New York Times
“I think this is a record in the history of Christo’s special projects
because he and the team realized it in 22 months; normally it takes
decades,” the director of the project, the curator Germano Celant, said
on Thursday. “So I will say that it’s an Italian and American miracle at
the same time.” http://nyti.ms/1V0ceBN
