COLTANO: TERRA PROMESSA

by Tanatswa Borerwe

A mixed-use proposal for the abandoned Guglielmo Marconi radio research building site in Coltano, near Pisa, Italy. The programme includes a new precision farming research centre, a radio station studio, and a museum dedicated to Marconi, addressing the contextual requirements of the site today.The main aim of the project is to create a complex mutual relationship between the urban and the rural, but also to propose a way to visualise the invisible radio waves which define the site.