Karolina Kielb Y5
Etna, Mountain of the Mind. The initial phase of the project culminated in a device for a visit to Mount Etna, that responds to our historical engagement with mountainous landscapes and applies them as a means of fostering a grounded emotional experience for the visitor.
As an alternative to data driven understandings of landscapes as signifiers of climate change, this project aims to restore the emotional connection between the mountain and the mind. This emotional engagement is used as a protective measure to remove the physical pressures of tourism from fragile mountain environments. A remote, alternative landscape is proposed in the town Zafferana Etnea to act as a pressure valve with the aim to reduce touristic impact on the important summit site. The proposed architecture exists as a series of architectural and landscape interventions situated along a new network of paths leading up the mountain, used to amplify specific qualities of the mountainous landscape in the mind of the visitor.
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