2002
'SEPTEMBER 11, 2001'
COMMEMORATION OF THE
VICTIMS AT GROUND ZERO
|
project start
date |
2002 |
|
starting
time/day |
September11,
2002 ore 14,45 |
|
place |
Piazza del
Comune-Via
Ricasoli - Corso
Mazzoni - Prato
- Italy |
|
promoted by |
Assessorato alla
Cultura del
Comune di Prato
- Assessore
Ambra Giorgi
Circonscrizione
Centro - Rosita
Mattei |
|
project concept |
Marco Meozzi,
Architect
|
|
coordinator |
"LABORATORIO
COMUNE"
Roberta
Pasquinelli -
Cironi Mazzoni
Middle School -
Pasqualina
Previti
Pellicanò |
|
assistants for
students |
Franca Santini
- Barbara Noci |
|
road safety |
Polizia
Municipale |
|
video |
Elena Foresto |
|
bell sound |
Christian Cheli
- Leonardo
Sandretti |
|
operatational
assistance |
Massimo Falcini
- Antonio
Malenotti
-Antonello
Deiana-
Alessandro Gori
- Fabio Baffoni |
SETTEMBER 11, 2001
(Chronology of a late
summer morning)
8.45 a.m.
Boeing 767 (flight AA11)
crashes into the 80°
plane of the north tower
of the World Trade
Center.
9.03 am.
18 minutes after the
first collision another
Boeing 767 (flight
UA175) crashes into the
south tower of the World
Trade Center at the
height of about the 47th floor
10.05 am.
One hour after the
crash, the south tower
of the World Trade
Center collapses.
10.28 am.
The north tower, the
first one to be hit,
also collapses.
One year later, while
walking through the
streets of downtown
Prato and looking at the
shadow that a building
cast on the pavement, I
found myself wondering
“whatever became of the
shadow of the World
Trade Center”, which I
had observed one year
ago?... "
This is how this project
originated.
The children of the
Cironi - Mazzoni School
district observed
September 11th,
2001 at 8,45 am. ( New
York City local time),
marking the hour when
the first jet crashed
into the first World
Trade Center tower.
On a sunny day the
shadow of Prato's
buildings casts a
continuous line of shade
on the city's pavement,
marking the time as if
it were a large urban
sundial that separates
the light from the
shade.
The children used white
chalk to draw this line
to commemorate and make
others recall this
event.
The bell in the Palazzo
Pretorio tower rang 2823
times to recall the
victims of September 11th.