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FEDERICO ZANFI STUDIO	page 1 (page 2)
federico zanfi (italy), francesco pergetti (italy), david giraldeau (canada), filippo losi (italy), carlo callari (italy), enza santangelo (italy)
Sunlight is Mediterranean culture DNA. It is the spring of life for natural ecosystems, stamina for agriculture and a climate factor for the people that developed specific material cultures. But sunlight is also a metaphor for the "meridian" condition which Franco Cassano identifies as the eventual future for the Italian Mezzogiorno: a way of liberation from a twisted, imposed and failed modernization, a condition from which the territory should start rethinking itself. MERIDIAN DNA is a research lab to cultivate this future plan. It brings together ecosystems, cultures and artifacts that developed through the Mediterranean sun to protect, to study and reform them. The 7 km of the highway have a different range of environmental conditions, altitudes and conditions of irradiation of the overpasses: they allow to arrange a sequence of "experimental situations", climatically controlled, where the biological processes and technologies are implemented to research for new development trails.