The structure serves as a gateway to the city of Florence, embodying and expressing its identity. It stands at a delicate threshold between city and landscape, where architecture intersects with infrastructure. Here, it confronts a suspended condition – marked by complex relationships between urban order and territorial chaos – translating this tension into form and material.

The project reinterprets the figurative identity of Tuscan architecture: restrained volumes, clear tectonics, geometric rigor, and traditional materials. Like a contemporary orangery or a fragment of a historical “Spedale,” the building evokes memory and belonging through section, shadow, and substance.

At the same time, it opens up to new architectural logics: the influence of the viaduct and the highway introduces fragmentation, assemblage, and contrast. The structure is articulated through recognizable elements – rhythmic façades, sculptural pillars, and materials that oppose and complement each other – creating a composition in constant equilibrium.