The project proposes an "architectural landmark" that becomes the symbol of the Underground City of Stone, representing a "Bridge between the historical and the contemporary

Our project is revealed as a Transversal Axis that allows to revalidate the artificial and recover the natural of the city of Matera at the same time. To become a new conjugation between the natural - the landscape - and the artificial - what was built by man throughout history. The manifestation of the duality between the inert and life.

It is a metaphor between the diagenesis that allowed the characteristic Sassi di Matera, that is, the history of the sedimentary calcareous rock, and the green mantle with which they coexisted in harmony until the present.