New bridge in Genoa, the exciting lighting to remember the victims (and monitor the pollution)

The new Genoa bridge will have eco-friendly lighting so as not to forget the victims.

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He will remember the 43 victims of the Morandi bridge and monitor the pollution: here is the lighting project for the bridge over the city of Genoa

An eco-friendly lighting not to forget. This will be the leitmotif that will lead the construction of the new bridge over the city of the lantern: a "monument of light" that will also inform at the same time on the level of air quality.

In short, the new viaduct over the Polcevera, presented in recent months by the architect Renzo Piano in the Region to replace the one that collapsed on August 14, will have luci evocative e commemorative and all the lighting will wink at environmental sustainability.

To say it Romano Baratta, Light Artist and Lighting Designer among the best 40 in the world under 40, who is ready for “a hybrid intervention between light art and lighting design”, as he himself defines it.

“Light can make an area that requires it monumental. It can give identity to an ancient place or to another that, albeit recently, has been destroyed or collapsed. A light monument - continues Romano Baratta - so as not to further burden the soul of a seriously affected city ".

It will also be a lighting project that will be able to inform about the level of air quality: the bridge until midnight will be an air pollution detector with specific colors:

Blue light for clean air
Yellow light for mediocre air
Red light for polluted air

“A bridge that sorts and reduces traffic cannot cancel atmospheric pollution - says Baratta-, but it can be capable of informing citizens about the level of goodness of the air. The lighting will be functional to the citizen's well-being and will increase the critical sense on the issue ".

New bridge in Genoa, the exciting lighting to remember the victims (and monitor the pollution)

And the memory of the victims? From 24.00 the pylons and stays are they will manifest with light to recall their physical presence. Luminous elements that will look like human figures spreading their arms to unite two parts of the wounded city.

"The memory is sterile if it is an end in itself, but - concludes Romano Baratta - if the memory becomes a warning but above all an action for effective improvement, then the lost lives are a reason for hope".