Silk Road Map - International Online -  project 18 of 42  
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luca cosimi (italy), emiliano ciarletti (italy), elisa fochetti (italy), paola celletti (italy)
THE PROJECT IS THE UNION OF THE TWO REALITIES,CHINA AND ITALY,THROUGH THE REVITALIZATION OF THE ROAD,HISTORICALLY KNOWN AS “THE SILK WAY”.THE IDEA IS TO DESIGN A TRAIN COACH, PAYING ATTENTION TO THE ROLE OF THE SPACE GENERATED BY A SERIES OF FOLDING SURFACES.THE CONCEPT IS INSPIRED BY THE SHAPE OF SILKWORM,IN SINERGY WITH THE DYNAMIC MOVIMENTS OF THE FOLDING SURFACES.THE COACH WILL BECAME A MEETING POINT BETWEEN DIGITAL AND PHISICAL SPACE,A THIRD NATURE DIMENSION, IN WHICH, BOTH THE EXPERIENCES,FIND A COMMON GROUND.THE CRUCIAL STEP IS THE ”NETWORK” CREATED BY THE SINERGY BETWEEN HYPERARCHITECTURE AND THE WORLD WIDE WEB, FROM WHICH A MULTIFACED ENTITY WILL BEGIN A MOVING SKIN.THE VIRTUAL COMMUNICATION,MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE SURFACES THAT TRANSFORM THEMSELVES IN A INTERACTIVE SKIN,WILL SHOW,INSIDE THE COACH, INFO ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE PLACES THAT THE TRAIN IS GOING THROUGH, WHILE OUTSIDE,IMAGES,SYMBOLS AND WORDS WILL BE RELATED TO THE BOTH COLTURES,CHINA AND ITALY.