The Edicola

July 2025

Mantova

TEAM:

Tutors

Marco Frassetto

Riccardo Giuseppe Meneghello

Sara Raffaglio

Savelii Siniagin

Students

Davide Mihai Amairei

Sokol Cepani

Rebecca Esposito

Aurelio Lupo

Francesco Nasi

Valerio Vitali

Edicola:

1. Small architectural organism, consisting mostly of two columns with a pediment superimposed to serve as protection for sacred images.

2. Sometimes used to indicate structures or shelters such as light fortified positions that offer protection.

The edicola is small, and it may go unnoticed. It cannot exist without the human scale of the individual. Its primary role is to cover, block the vertical with a resistant roof. Not essential but desired are side closures, one, two or three. , not four. Whoever is inside must be protected, hidden, camouflaged, but must have clear and broad control of the surroundings. She's light, temporary, moving fast.”

To celebrate the conclusion of Mantovarchitettura 2025, we brought the city to life once again with an Architectural Parade, following the tradition started last year. This year’s parade featured five mobile micro-architectures designed and built by students to parade through the streets of Mantova, transforming the urban space into a moving stage of creativity, collaboration, and celebration.

Each mobile architecture was conceived as a scenic machine, inspired by archetypes of medieval war architecture such as bridges, aediculae, siege towers, and tribunes. These structures moved through the city, appropriating public space and transforming how people experience and interact with it.

The pavilion was built and designed in collaboration with a group of students from the Politecnico di Milano's Bachelor's in Architectural Design of the Mantova Campus. This was the first occasion for most of the team to develop an idea from the sketch to the elaboration of the executive drawings until the final step: the Architectural parade around the city.

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