The Stroll: La Passeggiata
Advised by Toshiko Mori
Perugia, Italy [2025]
perugia in cross roads studio description
masterplan design, landscape, and architecture
The Stroll is a landscape and architectural project situated in Parco Rimbocchi, conceived as a junction between Perugia’s microcities and as a mediator between land, culture, and collective life. Reflecting Perugia’s tradition of public walking—la passeggiata—the project treats movement through the site as a social and spatial act shaped by topography, shifting viewsheds, and moments of hide and reveal. In parallel, the project draws on this shared image of the farmhouse nestled into the terrain as a point of familiarity, bridging public understanding with architectural legibility.
Within this framework, the vernacular is imbued with something new: the language of curved retaining walls found throughout Perugia. These walls both reference the city’s infrastructure and actively negotiate the terrain, producing a contemporary reinterpretation of the farmhouse type. By working through topography, the buildings gain a double reading in elevation—appearing as a single-story form from higher ground while expanding into two stories below—allowing architecture, landscape, and movement to remain in constant dialogue as one moves through the park. Through this negotiation between the familiar and the new, The Stroll frames walking as a shared cultural experience, where architecture and landscape work together to produce moments that are both recognizably grounded and quietly surprising.