Soft machine

This abandoned gasometer located in Italy is part of my series called Soft Machine. Architect Peter Davey defined Soft Machine as those constructions which, despite being based on the most advanced high-tech, present soft characteristics, i.e. qualities that are not only materially mechanical, but culturally and aesthetically expressive. I tried to create a visual representation of this concept by photographing structures in which there was a balance between invention and design, between seriality and uniqueness. Perhaps only in the relics of industrial archeology will it be possible to rediscover the charm of an "architectural imagination", of that mythopoetic quality that was present in many great buildings of antiquity.