Rather than demolish an old road and its substantial reinforced-concrete structures, now embedded in the landscape and collective imagination, this proposal calls for reusing and redeveloping selected sections. They could support renewable-energy production and experiments with environmentally friendly technology, improve connections between villages and access to valuable mountain-ridge landscapes, and accommodate environmental and land art that encourages responsible tourism.

Modern infrastructure is large. It connects major urban centres and allows cities to expand. It crosses deep valleys, bypasses difficult routes and cuts through mountain peaks. In doing so, it can bypass smaller, more remote communities and their local connections. This project emerges at a critical moment, as the failure of one of these infrastructural giants comes into view.

A motorway is about to be dismantled because a new route will provide an even faster connection. Our proposal is a ramp-like platform that gradually links the motorway above to the valley floor. Over time, this platform could allow a new form of life to emerge.

The single-purpose structure that once overshadowed its surroundings would become a distinctive combination of habitat and infrastructure. The gradual emergence of smaller elements would help preserve the larger structure while suggesting another way for the two to coexist.

The proposal is not a solar park designed to generate more energy for existing modes of travel. It questions the very idea of moving through the territory so quickly. It is sceptical of clean, fast, technologically advanced solutions and locates itself precisely where such an engineering solution has failed.

The project does not seek a compromise between slow and fast, or fast and faster. It supports life with all its weight, waste and shortcomings.