Following a River to Draw a Forest | Bologna, Italy | Unit 21 | 2026
Cineteca del Fiume is a cinematheque, café, film archive, and outdoor cinema sited on the Po River floodplain in Northern Italy, within an ongoing ecological restoration of a reconnected oxbow lake. The building’s geometry is generated by a parametric drawing tool built from satellite data along the entire river: the Po draws the architecture. A glazed enclosure sits beneath a curved aluminium canopy within a field of slender columns, projecting into the characteristic fog of the Po Valley and dissolving architecture into atmosphere.

Aluminium canopy

External projections on frosted glass screens

Projection beneath canopy

Projection infrastructure extends out into the landscape

Sketches and plans