02 21 In this issue: Where the Patriarchs walked The island of dreams 02 Temporary masterpieces 21 The ham that tastes of fireplace Viña Vik, with the mind and with the heart Wooden houses and light Half plus one of soccer That Balilla with umbrella 1 Start— #jerusalem #chile #mesolcina #leventina #grono #roveredo #bellinzona #argentina #geneva #boca #maradona #football #soccer #houses #wood #light #island #kitchen #furniture #wine #sustainability #art # engineering #tunnel #highway #ham #tradition #typicality #unitednations #un #scaffolding #robertoschürch #alessandroinvernizzi #chiaragiovannini #jorgeclemente #jaimelamoliatte #paololuisoni #ninifagetti #morenofagetti #fabioporzionato #mattiacanepa Contents 4 Editorial If you have the Spotify application on your smartphone go to ‘search’ camera icon in the top right and enter the code that is found next to each article. You can then listen to the playlist inspired by the article. 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April-June 2021 35 16 Half plus one Temporary masterpieces of football 20 39 The ham that tastes of fireplace That Balilla with a parasol They are building the neighborhood Alex Pini Josè Pedro Borges Monteiro Antonio Pistillo Alan Josh Bannwar Enzo Basile Asier Sousa Vincenzo Santos Bisciglia 2 They are quartierebirreria.ch building the neighborhood Steve Copat Giuseppe Pruneri Mario Franzé Teixeira Gomes 02 21 Sergio Carvalho Pires Vincenzo Antonio Fariello Floriano Fontana Bisciglia PH: Fotostudio Hsaskia Cereghetti To the readers Editorial When the first one is good... it is necessary think about the second. Only they, unlike a theater company, who create magazines must rewrite the script every time. That’s why we decided to permit you to be part of our behind-the-scenes look. How is an issue of Bistrôt born? For us it is important to always start from the why. We write articles because we want to listen to people who have something to say and then tell you about it. For this reason, we interview those who we have had the opportunity to know and appreciate, who, in some way, we feel are part of our world. People in whom we recognize values and passions similar to ours, those of Galli Group. 4 Download and have your digital copy You can download for free the digital version (.pdf format) of Bistrôt at bistrot.digital 02 First of all, we need to choose aspects of the projects. Matteo Riva 21 who interview. The suggestions is instead an art director who gives come from Andrea and Fabiana Bistrôt an elegant and contemporary Galli. Then we try to find the right design. Because the content mix of topics that inspire us, such speaks to reason, the container as: creating, residing and living. communicates to the emotions. Therefore, architects and engineers can hardly be absent. In this issue The photographs are usually we have the engineer who brings provided by the interviewees and Swiss technology into the heart of when new shots are needed we the Holy Land and the architect who use professionals such as Angelita designs wooden houses in Leventina. Bonetti of Officina Immagine (in the But we also talk about the restyling first issue) and Hsaskia Cereghetti of the UN building in Geneva and (in the second issue). We have given how the pandemic has changed the this behind the scenes look for two way people are living in their homes. reasons: the first is that we like the Then we move on to the pleasures of idea of making you become more life: a glass of wine, a slice of ham, a and more part of our community, kick of a ball, an old convertible. the second is because we have been asked by some readers, curious To transform the selection of about this new magazine that wants characters and topics into stories to to combine lightness to refinement. read and browse through is the team So we close by thanking you for the of Visiva, communication agency positive appreciations that you have from Bellinzona, led by Luca Del done after reading the first number! Boccio. Andrea Dallapina, with Thank you! They have spurred us to more than twenty years of seek for the applause for the encore! journalistic experience, guarantees depth and passionate interviews, Bis! also managing to make more comprehensible, the most technical 5 Why read this article? To travel in the Holy Land, along the way of the Patriarchs. To discover how Swiss high engineering in underground infrastructures is making biblical Jerusalem more modern, among futuristic underground caverns and incredible highway doubles. #jerusalem #pinigroup WHERE THE PATRIARCHS WALKED 6 In 1950 Luigi Pini founded his The excellence and experience own engineering studio. After a few decades of family engineering expertise of the Pini management, in 1995 begins the transformation into an international group. Group are landed in the Holy Land. It is being carried out by Luigi’s son. The doubling of the highway between Luigi’s son, Olimpio Pini, and his partner Daniele Jerusalem and Bethlehem, the caves Stocker who, together, took over the leadership of the and the tunnel company. Since the early 2000s, Pini Swiss has grown of the new hub of the station of considerably, in particular thanks to major projects Jerusalem and in the future also the such as the Ceneri Base Tunnel. Tel Aviv subway are some of In 2013 it opened the branch in Zurich. Then, it entered their projects. In Israel, Pini has the market in both western and eastern Switzerland, brought Swiss expertise and skills with offices in Lausanne, Chur and Ilanz, with the in the construction of tunnels and acquisition of further important mandates. underground projects. 02 Group companies are Even in a complicated land, marked by established in the Pini Group 21 in Italy, Austria, France and Israel. The Pini Group the characteristics of the territory and today counts about 350 employees and by political history, the “Swissness”, has mandates of great technological value at a the ability to find efficient solutions worldwide scale. The current Board of in difficult situations, has been administration is composed of Olimpio Pini (Chairman), demonstrated once again the reliability Daniele Stocker (vice- president), Giovanni of the Swiss companies. We have Leonardi, Roberto Gerosa, Giovanni Merlini, Peter Limacher and Andrea spoken with Dr. Roberto Schürch, Galli. project manager of the tunnels and responsible for the international market of Pini Swiss Engineers. Soundtrack Dr. Schürch, how was the experience So Grouchko became your partner, The first tunnel was built in the middle of the Pini group in Israel? but who was the first client? of the corridor, so now on the sides “It is necessary to set the premise, “The Moriah Jerusalem Development the space is reduced. At one point we with the new millennium Israel found Corporation. This is a company that will even have to enter inside the other itself in, a phase of great demographic aims to develop the infrastructure in tunnel so much of the available space and technological development, Jerusalem and carry out public works is reduced. therefore the need for infrastructure, for the local government. Their problem including underground, but the local was doubling the capacity of Road 60, Are the tunnels already under market was in short supply. Suffice it to in a track from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. construction? say that the few existing tunnels were The intervention is very complex, “Yes, the first tunnel is already finished almost designed by a single engineer, perhaps unique. This is because two and will be opened to traffic by the end Arnon Rozen. Therefore, the Israelis new tunnels have to be built alongside of 2021. have decided that in order to have a existing ones without interrupting the Work is currently focused on the contract in this sector, local companies traffic on the existing track. The first is second one. We are using a technique had to have an internationally about 300 metres long, the second one that involves the construction of a recognized partner in the field of is one kilometer long. tunnel, then an adjacent one. design of underground works.” The great difficulty lies in the fact that To put it in a non-technical and easily the new tunnels must be built close a understandable, it’s like removing one Of course the thought must have few meters away from those existing piece at a time from the the mountain, gone to Switzerland and its tradition ones. After the completion of the so the mountain doesn’t realize that in digging and crossing mountains? new tunnels, the existing ones will be we have pierced it and its structure “Exactly. The managers of an office in restored in order to guarantee a level adapts without trauma and above Jerusalem, the Grouchko Structural of safety and durability in accordance all, without causing problems to the Engineers, thought: where can we with modern requirements.” tunnel in operation”. find an international partner with experience? Llet’s try Switzerland. Is it a problem of conformation of the Did you have to use any special safety So in 2016 they contacted a Swiss territory? precautions? engineer they knew and the latter “Not only that. According to the Oslo “A careful risk analysis has been pointed them to the Zurich office of agreements, precise corridors have carried out during the development Pini Swiss Engineers.” been created within which Israel can of the project in order to guarantee build in the West Bank territories.