The Fontivegge Business Center in Perugia is a complex of buildings designed in 1983 by architect Aldo Rossi, intended to redevelop the area where the Perugina chocolate factory once stood, with only the chimney remaining today. The group of buildings is characterized by imposing volumes, simple lines, and colors, in a design that Rossi himself described as follows: "The project aimed to construct a part of the city, an urban center where public and private buildings are integrated, not just following a sociological pattern, but repeating the essence of daily life and the ancient stone from which the Umbrian city is built."
However, the Fontivegge Center, with its "Piazza del Bacio" and buildings housing regional administrative offices (the so-called "Broletto"), has not become a backdrop for social life. On the contrary, probably due to its location in a fragile neighborhood that includes the train station and is in gradual decline, it awaits a project that could revitalize the entire area.
The photographic project, part of a personal exploration of metaphysical places, focuses on Aldo Rossi's architecture, aiming to highlight the clarity of the forms and the sense of mystery that this urban space conveys—lying between the real and the imaginary, immersed in still silence, where only occasionally does a human figure or a flight of birds appear.