palcosole open air stage inclines according to setting sun

Palcosole is an open air stage designed for community performances in the Apennine hills south of Bologna, Italy . The timber structure provides a reversible platform for cultural events and reinforces the clearing’s established role as a place for shared experience. Designed by studio GRRIZ, the main canopy inclines at exactly 30 degrees to trace the arc of a descending half sun. This civic gesture transforms a historic outdoor gathering space into a lightweight cultural infrastructure, assembled entirely without permanent fixings and removable without a trace.

The plan follows proportional rules derived from the Golden Section and the logarithmic spiral associated with the nautilus fossil, a form found in the Bologna Apennines. These geometric principles generate a layout that reads as organic yet rigorously controlled.…