The tower on the water, just like a gateway, is set on the edge of a deep and dark lake. The tower is mainly cladded with slabs of grey granite (silver cloud) and thin black granite strips (from zimbabwe). The surface of the blocks is treated with different processing techniques, from the roughest on the base, to the smoothest on the top.

Such simple and austere composition seems to be hanging or fluctuating, thanks to the black cladding effect! The big blocks of grey granite, fragmented on the base, reunite at the top to form a homogeneous composition with a central passage. The set-up is brought out by an opposite bay and by glares on the water. The black sea bottom contributes to bestow a peculiar atmosphere of suspension and mystery.

I’m a professor in the Urban and Architectural Design at the University of Catania, based in Syracuse. I’ve tought at the Architectural Mendrisio Accademy. I’ve exhibited my works in more editions of the International Architecture Exhibition at Biennal in Venice. I received several awards and honors: in 2015 I won the national prize “ Italian Architect Prize 2015”, from National Council of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects and Conservationists; in 2013 I won the first prize for an international competition “ARCH & STONE’13” Stone Architecture of the New Millennium International Award Architecture in Stone 2Nd Edition; in 2012 I was selected (Phase I – II) for the Mies van der Rohe Award. Barcellona 2013; in 2012 I won the Gold Medal for Italian Architecture 2012, which is awarded from La Triennale di Milano.

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Curated by Vincenzo Pavan

Water, in being a fluid and luminous entity, helps valorise stone materials by enhancing their material-perceptive aspects. With the aim of creating a relationship between marble and water in architecture, Marmomac presents the Architetture per l’acqua exhibition. In keeping with this year’s theme concept – Water and Stone – world-famous architects teamed up with companies in the sector to create installations that experiment with innovative stone processing technologies.
The result is a scenic exhibition comprising stone towers overlooking a large pond. In tackling the topic of cladding façades, marbles and natural stones of different origins were selected and processed by partner companies with advanced solutions to enhance their high-level technical skills, thereby allowing the architects to create works of impressive structural and design complexity in accordance with new formal languages.