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The former was designed to express the sophisticated technological capabilities of Italian industrial production, the latter to be an enabling facility 42 Portable Architecture Fig. 3 Magic Box rapid intervention unit, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, 1985. transported directly to a West African rural population to help them construct their own buildings by adapting local materials using vegetable fibre and mud. In 1979 Piano began an urban reconstruction project in Otranto in southern Italy to renovate the historic town centre buildings without loss of their urban character and identity (Fig.
Conceptual and presentation design drawings. led to modern ships’ construction being based on a continuous extrusion with a pointed section at the bow. Piano not only wanted to reintroduce some of the grace and organic, sinuous quality of the earlier ships, but also to design dynamic external forms that would create dramatic internal public spaces. The design team’s response was to create a domed observation lounge which changed the ship’s profile. The space was created with a rib-cage like structure that introduces the idea to the passenger of being inside a giant marine creature rather than a piece of man-made engineering.
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