This project is the result of some unconsciousness mixed with a lot of admiration. The unconsciousness came from the side of the clients, Neus and Kenji of Can Kenji team, commissioning his new Japanese restaurant “izakaya” to a team that had never designed a restaurant and not even been in Japan. The admiration is ours to a culture as unknown as admired.
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Which one is our Japan? The one of the videogames and the lights of Tokio, the Japan of Frank Lloyd Wright, in the mood for love, their admired tradition of periodically rebuilt some temples to preserve the touch and smell for its sensorial perception, the House of Sugimoto and of course In Praise with Shadows of Tanizaki.
Later came the 85cm jump from the street to the inside, that’s when the toilets started to play making a virtue of disadvantage moving from almost the bottom space to the front assuming the allegorical and light prominence of the restaurant and at the same time providing the essential accessibility.
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The materials? Oak, the Shōji, carpet at the expense of tatami, the ceramic and the lighting, of shines more than lights… insinuations dancing so quite all over the space, at different highs, with golden reflections and a dark blue body, almost black.
To seat down 2 bars, the first one panoramic in descending diagonal towards the other one, connecting visually what the preexistence separated; and 2 tables, one protected (almost hidden) and the other shared, with 13 legs just in case.
But it wasn’t til 1 month before the opening, when Kenji and his team castled inside the kitchen behind a plastic membrane, that we returned to our place. The art of AIUEnO happens between fires and we have just built the air around the delightful quality of his dishes. Bon Appétit… Itadakimasu!
From the architect. Arkvista is located in Caddebostan where was used as Istanbul’s summer residence neighbourhood. This neighbourhood has been transformed for years, and became today’s quiet residential appearance. Nowadays, Caddebostan and the district around are going through another transformation. This transformation aims to renovate buildings which are old and weak for earthquakes. In this context, Arkvista was designed to bring the traces of modern architecture into the district.
Arkvista has a rectangle land which is located at the back parcel of the main beach axis. Accordingly, while the large facade is looking to a narrow street, the narrow facade is looking to the busy traffic of Cemil Topuzlu Street. From the fourth floor to the top floor, the apartments are looking through Marmara Sea which contains the view of Prince Island. Consequently, there is the plan scheme of a broad view of the building at the front with a balcony and the living room, followed by the kitchen, bedrooms and baths as one apartment per floor.
Narrow facade, which has a sea view from the balconies, is shaped by movement of a vertical line that continues all over the surface. Balconies are set back at the point where they meet the line and these movements are reflected in each plan on each floor. Through this movement each floor gets a unique and distractive schematic plan. However, the balconies are not too tight they have a sufficient range of use.
Wide facade, which is perceived shore line of Bostancı, is divided by narrow vertical panels in order to soften the width of the facade. These panels are continuing for fourteen floors. Alucobond aluminium composite panels, which reflect the sky, and Kale Sinterflex panels that are lightweight and has a stone appearance, are used for the facade. These vertical panels are divided by horizontal Alucobond panels in every three floors in order to balance the height of fourteen floor building.
Floor 14
Landscape is designed with grass pavers the public street and the site of the building is designed with plants instead of high walls that create a pressure to the street.
From the architect. Campus of Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Suchdol was built in the 60s of the last century and represents an exceptional example of urban and landscape creation of that time. Campus includes the rector’s office, classrooms, laboratories, lecture hall etc. The entire complex is built in a single architectural style of neo functionalism, which is recognized by monolithic reinforced concrete frame with inserted sheet cladded with mosaic tiles. Buildings of individual faculties are distinguished from each other by color of the mosaic. Thanks to the consistent format and window structure, it creates a unified style for all individual buildings.
Before start of Atrium construction, existing building of Faculty of Economics and adjacent building of lecture hall were interconnected by connecting corridor. Place for future completion of the atrium is located in the place of former connecting corridor.
This outbuilding replaces the original connecting corridor, which did not fit for the capacity and functionality. Basic functions of Atrium were to connect two parts of a faculty and to enhance place for relaxation and social activities. The building contributes to solve the lack of capacity of faculty and responds to the lack of common space with the onslaught of a growing number of new students. Current PEF space for the free movement and dispersal of students are poor and Atrium will serve students in the time between lectures. This space will allow students to work independently in their own free time in satisfactory conditions, and it will provide space for work or entertainment.
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The design of Atrium has a continuity to the existing architecture of the surrounding buildings and creates a natural connection between the main building Faculty of Economics and the lecture pavilion. Its shape comes from the surrounding buildings and it fits into an existing context. We applied same skeleton structural system like surrounding buildings from 60s. The main advantage of the proposal is that building is ideally situated on the site and therefore students gain access to the northern part of the garden that was previously for closed for students. Students will be able to actively use the garden in the summer period when inner space of atrium will be extended out.
The building is based on drilled piles in 600mm or 900mm diameter, where monolithic reinforced concrete plates are placed, these go around the whole circuit of the object grouplan. The supporting structure of the building is made from reinforced concrete. Supporting columns are of constant cross section of 350mm x 350mm. Bearing walls are thick 150, 200, 350 mm. Ceiling structure of the 1st and 2nd floor is made as a reinforced concrete in 300 mm thickness. The roof has flat design.
Facades are designed as visible reinforced concrete walls with structural glass.
Inner space is without paint and exposes a texture of concrete. Interior wall attached to the lecture pavilion is an acoustic wall and is made of veneered perforated sheet.
1st Floor Plan
Glass facades are made with aluminium construction system. The height between the floor and ceiling is 6800mm. From an architectural point of view we preferred vertical character, which we achieved by slimming the supporting aluminium columns so it looks like blades. Those are designed in T-shaped. All aluminium surfaces are covered by powder color in RAL 7016 FINE TEXTURE shade.
Total floor area is 250.8 square meters ( -173.5 m2 1st floor and 2nd floor – 77.3 m2 ). The total built -up area is 236.4 square meters. The orientation of the building – main façade of atrium looks southern.
Materiality: Metal, decking plate slab structure, EIFS Exterior insulation in walls and roof projected polyurethane. Outer skin dry pine wood treated and painted with enamel.
The main intention of this house renovation project was to create an area of a main and dominant garden (nonexistent due to the original location of the house) and at the same time highlight and enhance the situation of confrontation to the hill, originally ignored.
In that order, the demolition of 60% of the original house was considered bailing only a parallelepiped volume with gabled roof, which it was used as the module compositional project. A second outer skin of wood sticks was disposed to cover all this original volume. With the intention of generating, on the one hand, the desired volumetric reading element and on the other, a ventilated facade (poorly thermal insulation in original house)
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The project was composed using 3 volumes; ground floor 1 original volume + volume second floor turned to the view that dominates + new volume ground floor, turned over prior to maintain independent reading of the 3 elements.
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Special emphasis was placed on the coherence between the exterior and the interior, both volumetric reading and its spatiality. Showing up in the interior the volumes spanning from the outside and inside roof respecting the original configuration module.
In this sense at the meeting of the 3 volumes it is evidenced both outside and inside, by a double-height space formed by the three geometries, which constitutes the geometric articulator facing access and containing the stair way also became the functional articulator of the house.
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The outer skin of wood sticks allows not only have a ventilated facade but also generate reading an entire volume that makes both wall and ceiling, in a simple and recognizable geometry but with a visual texture that enriches the experience of the approach by discovering the details.
OMA‘s first building in Manhattan will be a condo project at 122 East 23rd Street, built in collaboration with Toll Brothers City Living. Designed by OMA‘s New York principal Shohei Shigematsu, the residential tower culminates a decade leading the office and several previous attempts to realize a project in the region.
Renderings of the Toll Brothers City Living project will be released next month. See previous designs by OMA for the New York region in the images below.
2008 Proposal for 23 E 22nd Street. Image Courtesy of OMA
This project concerns the renovation of a part of a reinforced concrete building of the eighties. The project idea is to create a multifunctional space where the bathroom element, which seems to be a little living room, is central to the architectural composition.
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Organization and practicality are the keywords of the renovation, all spaces are homogeneously interconnected, the use of the same materials (wood, grey colour, glass, mirrors)helps to create a sense of uniformity. The wood MDU furnishings solutions, entirely designed by LdA.iMdA design, are strategic in demonstrating that even a small apartment with the right interior design is nice to live and see.
This house corresponds to the ambitions and life project of a young heir and collector. The site, exhaustively searched, is located beside Graciosa Country Club, the most exclusive club with the golf course most centrally located in the city. Its particularities: dimensions, format, legislation and neighborhood shaped and conditioned several design decisions.
The house entirely built with reinforced concrete was a proposal of this office, which saw in this project an alternative to a powerful architecture for its volume and without the conventional stylistic concessions.
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The site of 1200m2 was relatively small for the large program to be installed, and the triangular shape with one side in an arch did not facilitate the design of the building. A narrow strip of maintenance sheds of the golf course along a high wall would only allow the desired views from the second floor of the house. The vertical guideline of the project came from the relationship between the difficulties presented by the lot, together with the most important requirement of the client: to make the most out of the views of the golf course.
This way, the main uses only happen from the second floor of the building.
The house consists of five floors – the groundfloor and four more. The ground and the first floors were intended to: accesses, patio and car shelter, services, staff apartments and facilities, and with an independent entrance from the same square that accesses the house, the gallery for the private collection.
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The gallery space was not included in the inicial scope of the project. The main idea was to install the artworks among the different spaces of the residence. However, due to the surplus of areas in the first floors and the inclusion of large scale art pieces to the collection, we thought it would be good to suggest the creation of a gallery, idea that was rapidly absorbed by the client. Thus, the exhibition space was intalled in a “T” shape plan with double-height ceiling, with one leg of the “T” reserved for a garden between walls, planned for sculpture exhibitions, water mirror and water garden. The coverage of this gallery, a roof garden, recreates the site two floors above the ground , providing a grassy area accessible from the floor of the rooms and from the main hall installed in a glass box.
The contemporary art collection began to be formed twenty years ago, when the owner assigned us to design his first apartment. We started with a series of local artists from the 80s generation. In the next years the collection has housed a series of artists with national and international scope, and has became a reference to local museums and important Brazilian artists and marchands.
The house, of approximately 1750m2, was designed for a couple and two girls.
On the groundfloor, apart of the vehicle access, a large square partially covered by the glass box with no walls and monumental proportions is the access to the main lobby, (also accessible for those who come by car from the back of the house), and to the private art gallery. The four upper floors can be accessed in three different ways: by lift or ramps to the main areas, and by stairs to the service areas.
From the main lobby on the groundfloor, we go up two floors to access the level with the rooms separated by the magenta woodwork, ripped by a ribbon window of 26 meters long with the first views of the golf course and access to the secret garden. This one contains 3 species of Pau-Ferro (Caesalpinia Ferrea), a native tree from the Brazailian Atlantic Forrest. This floor is dedicated to the daughters rooms, the guest room, and the rooms that accomodate daily uses such as the main kitchen of the house, which connects itself with the other two kitchens by a freight elevator . There is still a fourth kitchen for staff use.
The third floor contains the larger spaces and it is the floor dedicated to the bigger family interactions and large receptions. It is the floor with the double-height glass box, which runs transversally through the large concreteblock, poring over the golf course in one end and facing the city skyline at the other end. This floor also houses the master suite of the house, with access to the secret garden containing the external staircase to the rooftop swimming pool, and access to the side terrace with views of the golf course.
The fourth floor accomodates the social and family activities for daytime use, such as deck and swimming pool, lounge and bar, all of them with broad prospects of the golf course, plus sauna and kitchen with barbecue grill for lunch. The pool is covered in glass mosaic from an original drawing by the artist Paolo Ridolfi. It was executed, disassembled and boxed in São Paulo and brought to Curitiba for its final installation. The internal space, in the mezzanine between the two voids of the glass box, houses a table for a DJ and a dance floor.
The plastic language adopted prioritized the volumetry of solid blocks made out of reinforced concrete in a work of additions and subtractions of masses, where the circulation tunnels of the ramps and the vertical circulation volumes of the stairs rip the main body of the building, causing the facades to be represented by the circulations that run through the building.
The front facade, more volumetric and sculptural, has few opennings as opposed to the glass box, aerial and transparent, which covers the triple-height entrance square. This is where the two stainless steel doors are – one to access the house and the other to access the private gallery – with the background of a 12 meters high U-glass cladding.
The rear facade, more extroverted and permeable, is volumetrically more stirred, conditioned by the shape and proportions of the site and by the urban legislation. It includes several openings and terraces for a better integration with the landscape.
The proposed furniture, also understood as a collection, is a mix of international furniture brought from the previous houses of the owners, and a collection of Brazilian copyrighted modernist and contemporarty furniture, created by leading architects and designers of the twentieth century and the present generation.
Manuelle Gautrand Architecture, DesignInc, and Lacoste + Stevenson have won an international competition for the design of a civic and community building in the Australian city of Parramatta. The six-story, 12,000 square meter building, a mixture of rectilinear sharpness and parabolic curves, extends back from the city’s Victorian Free Classical style town hall. The new structure will include a variety of spaces, including: council chambers and offices, a library, public roof gardens, a customer care center and visitor experience center, community meeting rooms, a technology hub, and an innovation space.
Courtesy of Manuelle Gautrand Architecture
The design was endorsed by the Parramatta City Council after the consortium design was unanimously chosen by the jury. According to Parramatta Mayor Paul Garrard, “The jury was tasked with selecting an iconic design and they have certainly fulfilled that brief. The architects have produced a contemporary and thought-provoking design that is sure to become a must-see destination for visitors to Parramatta, and we congratulate the team on producing a spectacular winning design.”
Courtesy of Manuelle Gautrand Architecture
The building budget is $AUD 50 million, and is part of a larger project to overhaul the adjacent area in the “Parramatta Square” Urban Development project, a $AUD 2 billion masterplan. The concept designs will undergo analysis before a Development Application can be made. The building is expected to be completed in 2020.
From the architect. In our approach to the design of Weinblick we focused on the themes of wine-tasting and lingering. The formerly simple and classic architecture of the building on the side of the garden was radically changed, so that a landscape of seating steps now offers the perfect place to look out into the vineyards while relaxing and tasting wine. This architectural detail has thus provided the name for the project: “Weinblick”, wine-view. The step form outside is continued inside the building, winding as a staircase or in the form of shelves into the cellar. Arriving in the cellar, visitors find themselves on an illuminated presentation bridge.
The loess clay typical for this region was left in its unfinished state – the cellar offers an insight into the ground soil and the deeply rooted grapevines. For the presentation of the wines we created surroundings that are elegant without being aloof. We wanted to highlight the production character of a vineyard and we focused here too on earthy materials: metal, cement, and cluster pine conjoin the new architecture with parts of the old remainders of the building. In this way, we achieved an optimum use of the only 70- square-meter small room. Honored with the AIT – AWARD 2016, 2end prize in the retail category.
The Venice Biennale has released a list of 19 Collateral Events that will take place alongside the 15th International Architecture Exhibition, Reporting from the Front, curated by Alejandro Aravena and chaired by Paola Baratta. Previews of the main even begin May 26th and 27th, and it is open to the public from May 28th to November 27th 2016.
The collateral events, each selected by Alejandro Aravena and promoted by a non-profit sponsor, take place around Venice, and, in the words of Paola Baratta, “[they] contribute, along with a good number of participating countries that do not have a pavilion in the Giardini or in the Arsenale, to spread the 15th International Architecture Exhibition by turning it into an urban phenomenon, that would engage every corner of the city.”
The complete list of events can be found below, and make sure to follow ArchDaily’s complete coverage of the Venice Biennale.
Across Chinese Cities is an international program organized and promoted by Beijing Design Week (BJDW) since its launch at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2014). As part of this ongoing series the exhibition curated by Beatrice Leanza (BJDW) and Michele Brunello (DONTSTOP Architettura), stems from theHouse Vision project, a Pan-Asian platform of multidisciplinary research and development started by designer Kenya Hara for Japan in 2013. House Vision is an exploration in ‘applied futurity’ in domestic habitation exercised by match-made teams of architecture practices and industry-leading companies from various sectors.
Across Chinese Cities – House Vision features for the first time the body of research so far produced with a team of China-based architects and experts. It addresses the changing role and habitat of architecture practice in today China by rendering manifest the contextual phenomena and research trajectories behind 14 architectural proposals. Grouped in five thematic clusters (The Hybrid Unit, Dematerialized Space, Rural Frontiers, Community Plus and Home Kitchen) they are presented by way of an integrated system of material, digital and documentation archives devised to guide visitors’ fruition in a series of interactional scapes.
Aftermath_Catalonia in Venice. Architecture Beyond Architects
Aftermath focuses on lived-in architecture when architects are no longer present and users continue daily the architectural experience. The selected works have been created over the last 10 years by Catalan architects. The audiovisual representation of the structures invites you to evaluate their quality and observe and listen how they are inhabited and roamed in multiple and changing ways. All of the works selected share a distinctly public character and the ability to integrate the natural, urban and human landscapes, extending architectural functionality to the creation of common good.
Architecture Ukraine – Beyond the Front begins a dialogue on a crucial issue of our time: how to envision rebuilding and revitalizing cities in places of ongoing conflict. The exhibition features work from Izolyatsia’s research residency program, “Architecture Ukraine 2015”, which brought together professionals from diverse creative fields to examine the infrastructure challenges marking Mariupol, an embattled border city in Eastern Ukraine. It further explores a parallel examination of the foundation’s home city of Donetsk, currently under conflict, as circumstances create a divergence of the sister cities of Donbas to outposts on either side of a volatile de facto border. The exhibition seeks to hold up a mirror from beyond the front, examining anthropological, economical, social and cultural history, while analyzing social and geographical boundaries that limit or expand the cities’ dynamics.
Spazio Ridotto, San Marco, 1388 (calle del Ridotto) May 28 – June 30 Promoter: Izolyatsia http://ift.tt/1pJ30gt
Branding Islands Making Nations
Branding Islands Making Nations is a case study competition intended to open the discourse on added value in design, expanding upon the 15th International Architecture Exhibition’s call to arms by inviting an extended field of spatial practitioners to the Biennale Architettura 2016. Consultants and communication designers, marketing and advertising experts shall speculate on the role of branding in the making of a place. Facilitated by the Vertical Geopolitics Lab think-tank, the conceptual framework is based on the understanding that the politics of representation determine the success of an intervention in the built environment. In the case of a government seeking to determine the feasibility of a territorial claim, entrants are tasked with the presentation of a branding package surrounding an artificial landmass instrumental in legitimizing a nation’s territorial claim. Select teams will represent the mix of stakeholders and issues at play, expanding possibilities rather than shifting responsibilities by exposing the glitches, loopholes, and grey areas in systems as first step toward conflict resolution.
Ca’ Tron, Santa Croce, 1957 November 25 and 26 Promoter: Vertical Geopolitics Lab www.vg-lab.net www.bi-mn.net
Coexistence
Macao, a lucrative port of strategic importance in the development of international trade in Chinese territory, became a Portuguese settlement in the mid-16th century and returned to China in 1999. The “Historic Centre of Macao” is a collection of a series of locations in the old city centre that witness the unique assimilation and coexistence of Chinese and Portuguese cultures. It was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2005, and represents the architectural legacies of the city’s cultural heritage. This exhibition provides the interactive opportunity to review how we can learn from the “old” buildings and the existing urban context of Macao in a “new” way. The exhibition explores the idea for reconditioning historical spaces for domestic use. By presenting a series of recent restoration and regeneration projects, as well as displaying the traditional (perhaps disappearing) building techniques and local materials that are being rediscovered, reused and applied during the re-making process in the past and present days, one might be able to understand the coexisting east-and west relationships between the architectural approaches and the Historic Centre.
Arsenale, Castello, 2126/A (campo della Tana) May 28 – November 27 Promoter: Instituto Cultural do Governo da R.A.E. de Macau (I.C.M.) www.icm.gov.mo
Gangcity
Gangcity documents the phenomenon of urban clusters devoid of any kind of legal controls, in order to enable processes of reappropriation and the care of private and public spaces. The project aims to reveal the reciprocal influence between the violence and geography of cities, paying particular attention to the gangs as primary groups born in, and spread throughout the urban ghettos, predominantly through the involvement of teenagers. Encouraging a mix of disciplines and methodologies, Gangcity will be staging an international symposium and a photography exhibition in addition to a variety of events and scientific workshops. The narrative tone that emerges from the scientific analysis of the gangs complements the narration of social scientists, architects, urbanists and artists, who, along with the inhabitants, are also players in the new life cycles of urban clusters. However they’ve finally been freed from gang violence through socially inclusive practices rather than repression.
Arsenale Nord, Spazio Thetis May 26 – November 27 Promoter: DIST – Dipartimento Interateneo di Scienze, Progetto e Politiche del Territorio – Politecnico di Torino, Università di Torino www.dist.polito.it www.gangcity.it
Prospect North
Prospect North explores Scotland and its relationship with its northern neighbours with a focus on people and place. This macro to micro approach delivers a series of innovative mapping strategies, individual narratives, portraits and imagery highlighting Scotland’s place and identity within an economically emerging northern region. Prospect North explores the relationship between people, culture, places, industries and economies and how ‘peripheral’ communities are re-energising through grassroots actions and local endeavours whist at the same time recognising Scotland’s geographic horizons are expanding.
Ludoteca Santa Maria Ausiliatrice, Castello, 450 (fondamenta San Gioacchin) May 26 – June 26 Promoter: Scottish Government http://www.ads.org.uk/scotlandvenice16/
Re: Made in Taiwan – Common Construction
In responding to the theme of REPORTING FROM THE FRONT, the exhibition explores the aspirations and possibilities demonstrated via common civilians creations around their daily architecture. In the face of global / local environmental challenge and social issues, the event re-investigates the concept of civic construction and re-invents materials from recycled waste to set forth the next-step towards “improving the quality of the built environment and, consequently, people’s quality of life”, as stated by the Curator of the 15th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Alejandro Aravena.
Palazzo delle Prigioni, Castello, 4209 (San Marco)26 May 26 – November 27 Promoter: National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) http://ift.tt/1pqM6Gh
Revitalisation by Reconciliation
The IBA method, giving cities and regions an economic, social and cultural boost, will be presented for the first time at the International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Roundtables and conferences will contribute to this discourse by focussing on relevant experiences from IBA Parkstad and others, and their cross-border regional impact. They will explore new ways to address the urgent need of democracy in spatial design, urban transformation in Europe, sustainability, and the potential of cross-border cooperation. Experts, politicians, stakeholders and architecture students from throughout Europe will contribute to the debate.
Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Castello, 5252 (campo Santa Maria Formosa) May 28 – November 27 Promoter: IBA Parkstad www.iba-parkstad.nl
«Salon Suisse»: “Wake up! A path towards better architecture”
Curated by Leïla el-Wakil, the two-fold aim of the 2016 Salon Suisse is to discuss and re-evaluate fundamental ideas resulting from a balanced conception of modernity, and to participate in setting these as adapted guidelines for architecture in the 21st century. Currently, thanks to the global diffusion of ideas, a multitude of innovative, cost-free and meaningful architectural solutions, often based on lessons from the past, proliferate worldwide. One can observe an empowerment of architecture by the users themselves. The Salon Suisse will offer a space for reflection on topics such as tradition as modernity, reuse and recycling, auto-construction, the priority of human beings and human needs, “Small is beautiful”, Existenzminimum for all, and bio-climatic methods. Swiss and foreign architects, engineers, researchers, crafts(wo)men, filmmakers and artists are invited to share their knowledge and experiences around the theme of “a better architecture for tomorrow”.
Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi, Dorsoduro, 810 (campo Sant’ Agnese) May 26 and 28; June 16 – 18; September 8 – 10; October 20 – 22; November 24 – 26 Promoter: Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia www.prohelvetia.ch www.biennials.ch
Sarajevo now: People’s Museum
For centuries, Sarajevo has served as a crossroads and urban frontier. Like other cities transformed by exponential growth or unanticipated shrinking, post-conflict Sarajevo is confronted with its very own modes of informal practice. These conditions expose emerging practices and lessons from a city breaking down divisions and energized as a site for the production of citizenship.
These dynamics echo similar forces running through Urban-Think Tank’s research and design projects, which inspired a collaboration between ETH Zurich, the City of Sarajevo, and the Historical Museum through the ‘Reactivate Sarajevo’ initiative. One of the highlights of this partnership is the collateral event at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, presenting emerging lessons and practices.
Arsenale Nord, Tesa 100 May 28 – July 1 Promoter: Matica of Bosnia and Herzegovina http://www. matica-bih.org
SENZA TERRA / WITHOUT LAND
In an agreed upon and fixed point, an aerostat with the features of a terraqueous world map is raised. It will show the writing WITHOUT LAND that keeps rotating around itself. It will be a sign for all who do not have a land of their own, a place where to pause, a place where to meet, to converse and argue, to relate with others. At the bottom of the aerostatic balloon, a plate will be placed with the inscription of all the names of the artists participating in the projectWITHOUT LAND. The names will be in alphabetical order but without the mention of functions and activities as sculptor, painter, photographer, musician, literatus or whatever else. There will be only names and last names of human beings who have zeroed their social functions.
Isola di San Servolo May 27 – September 30 (aerostat until June 30 only) Promoter: A.I.A.P. (Associazione Internazionale Arti Plastiche)
Shaping European Cities. Urban confrontation, democracy and identity
Young Talent Architecture Award Granting Ceremony
The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe in Barcelona will organize the debate Shaping European Cities. Urban confrontation, democracy and identity and will grant the Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA).
Both events, funded by the Creative Europe programme, will highlight the conviction that high-quality architectural solutions foster growth, social inclusion, democratic participation and – ultimately – individual and societal well-being for city residents. The newly created Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA) of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award brings under the spotlight the architects’ education and their first steps into professional life. Speakers and participants will be announced at the beginning of Biennale Architettura 2016 and the discussion will be open to people involved in the construction of our territories, from citizens to stakeholders, from policymakers to architecture experts and from critics to students.
The exhibition takes human beings demands and desires about their livelihoods as the starting point. It especially aims at the residents simple wishes about their lost space: appeals and dreams that are buried deeply in their minds and never before have been woken up. The exhibition consists of three parts: the regeneration of urban central areas, the regeneration of countryside, and new experimental areas. It can be schematically represented by a series of concentric circles, going from the city internal areas to the outside and vice versa, representing the idea of sharing: sharing of knowledge, skills, emotions, thinking, wishes, cares and respect of our common past looking towards the future. These projects represent the process that goes from the reconstruction of community relationships to the reshaping of city and rural images, in which architects play an important role. The transition from a blueprint-led planning / design process to an action-led, communication oriented, and culture-based planning / design process can give an important contribution to the renewal of social development ways.
Palazzo Zen, Cannaregio, 4924 (Gesuiti); ex Chiesa di Santa Caterina, Cannaregio, 4941/4942 May 28 – November 27 (closed in August) Promoter: Fondazione EMGdotART www.EMGdotART.net
Stratagems in Architecture: Hong Kong in Venice
Hong Kong is a city known for its versatility and resilience; yet what is often seen in daily life is rigidity and lack of alternatives. Architecture, under such circumstance, becomes an agency reflecting on human, social and even political conditions, and at the same time moulding the values of the public. On one hand, it conforms to the rules of capitalism and private demand; on the other, it seeks to transcend the norm and open up imagination. What lies in between could be conflictive and creates endless and ever-changing battlefields. New ideas are put to test at the borderline; they may fail or they may transform into new set of values.
The classical Chinese essay Thirty-Six Stratagems is a collection of military tactics applied at wars in ancient China that categorized into chapters that illustrate different situations. The wisdom provides guides in politics, business and civil interaction in modern time. Drawing reference from the classic, the exhibitors examine the challenges they face and attempt to provide solutions to the complexity of reality.
Initiated by Kjellander Sjöberg Architects and curated by Jan Åman, the exhibition presents a sensual, thought provoking spatial installation in the Serra dei Giardini, a greenhouse from 1894. It suggests wood as a regenerative construction material, elucidating a vision of architecture and urbanity co-existing with nature in a restorative and adaptive way. Cities worldwide are threatened by rising sea levels, Venice – a city built on ten million trees – can serve as an example of how to handle this global problem. The exhibition investigates if ten million new trees could become a solution, creating new ecological and adaptive urban landscapes. Seven Swedish architects have been invited to transform an element of the Venetian palace into an architectural strategy for our time. The starting point is the fact that Venice is the result of a dynamic process between the natural environment and civilization.
Serra dei Giardini, Castello, 1254 (viale Giuseppe Garibaldi) May 28 – September 18 Promoter: Swedish Institute www.si.se
The Horizontal Metropolis, a Radical Project
“Horizontal Metropolis” is an oxymoron to conjugate the traditional idea of Metropolis (the center of a vast territory, hierarchically organized, dense, vertical, produced by polarization) with horizontality (the idea of a more diffuse, isotropic urban condition, where center and periphery blur). In contrast with main trends that see figures of urban dispersion mainly as a phenomenon to be contrasted, the Horizontal Metropolis concept consider them beyond the theme of “peri-urban” and as an asset, not a limit, for the construction of a sustainable and innovative territorial project. Here horizontality of infrastructure, urbanity and relations, mixed use and diffuse accessibility can generate specific habitable and ecologically efficient spaces. In this frame of thinking, the Horizontal Metropolis works as natural and spatial capital, as a support and place of potentiality.
The exhibition investigates the Horizontal Metropolis, its space, its traditions and its inhabitants’ lifestyles, its relevance today as an energetic, ecological and social design issue, it explores scenarios and design strategies for the re-cycling and upgrading of cities-territory in a radical project.
5,000 years of respect of Natural Environmental, wearing jades of Heaven as research of quality of life,translated in today creations
Living – or the inherently architectural datum thereof – as the research for a better quality of life. Today, it cannot but be influenced by social, cultural, geo-political, historical, environmental, scientific factors. Project THERAPY OF LIVING/Terapia del vivere revolves all around man and evolution with respect to the primary architectural environment, that is, living space (the body) and a space to live in (the environment). Our reflection starts with history, the history of the Near East in particular, and writes it by means of a capsule collection, a precious collection of jade artefacts – symbol of protection of the individual from curse and hazard. Hence, a lesson and principles to understand, translated into the contemporary languages of art and scientific research (three artists and one hundred students of local “Marco Polo” Art School of Venice).
Magazzino 11, Stazione Marittima (San Basilio); Liceo artistico “Marco Polo”, sede di Santo Spirito, Dorsoduro, 397 – 460 (Zattere) May 28 – November 27 Promoter: Biobridge Foundation http://ift.tt/22zqJB3
TIME SPACE EXISTENCE
The exhibition Time Space Existence presents architects from 6 continents brought together in an extraordinary combination. It shows current developments and thoughts in international architecture, presenting architects with different cultural backgrounds and in different stages of their careers, what they have in common is their dedication to architecture in the broadest sense of their profession, presenting architecture through a focus on the concepts Time, Space and Existence. Architects should be very conscious about the impact their activities have on living beings and on our environment. This exhibition aims to enlarge our human awareness of our own personal existence as human beings within a specific space and time.
Palazzo Bembo, San Marco, 4793 (Rialto, riva del Carbon); Palazzo Mora, Canaregio, 3659 (San Felice, Strada Nova); Palazzo Rossini, San Marco, 4013 (campo Manin) May 28 – November 27 Promoter: Global Art Affairs Foundation http://ift.tt/1pqM6Gd
Sig Nordal 