Resonance Visitor Centre is the final chapter of a 3-year journey shaped by intensity, resilience and an enduring love for creativity. It explores architecture as an instrument: echoing cultural memory through rhythm, mood, and sensory experience. Rooted in the Tuscan town of Mulazzo, the project reimagines heritage through layered space, sound, and form.
Design began with personal soundscapes: fragments of music and memory that later evolved through research into Tuscan festivals and traditional instruments. Inspired by the Malaspina family crest, mandolino forms, and the layered terrain, the proposal uses segmented movement, lifts and stair sequences to guide visitors through a poetic spatial journey. Moments of gathering, such as the performance piazza and café terrace, invite connection, joy and reflection.
The design inserts itself into the existing fabric through a self-structured U-shaped stair core, multiple lift bridge systems and layered public elements, such as a gift shop, archive space and library. Though personal battles with health and discipline remained in the background, they quietly shaped the focus and drive behind the work.
Resonance is about that tension between history and now, struggle and beauty, structure and soul. It offers not just a space – but a feeling of home, belonging and being heard. In the end, my project’s purpose is to honour what architecture gives: freedom to feel, imagine and keep going.
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