BIENNALE ARCHITETTURA 2021
‘HOW WILL WE LIVE TOGETHER?’
Venice, 22.05 - 21.11.2021
Στη
17η Διεθνή Έκθεση Αρχιτεκτονικής της Βενετίας (22 Μαϊου - 21 Νοεμβρίου
2021) διαγωνίζονται 112 συμμετοχές από 46 χώρες. Η Έκθεση οργανώνεται σε πέντε επίπεδα: Among Diverse
Beings, As New Households, As Emerging Communities, Across Borders και As One Planet.
Η
εγκατάσταση της Biennale εν μέσω πανδημίας,
ανάγκασε τους συμμετέχοντες να εργαστούν
με πιο συλλογικούς και βιώσιμους τρόπους, σύμφωνα με τις θεματικές
της Έκθεσης που όρισε ο επιμελητής της, Hashim Sarkis, πρύτανης της Σχολής
Αρχιτεκτονικής και Σχεδιασμού του MIT. ‘How will we live together?’ («Πώς θα ζήσουμε μαζί;») είναι
το ερώτημα που τίθεται, με σκοπό τον οραματισμό χώρων όπου άνθρωποι από όλον τον
κόσμο μπορούν να συναντηθούν έτσι ώστε να μοιραστούν τις λύσεις τους απέναντι
στα παγκόσμια προβλήματα. Όπως αναφέρει ο curator, «Χρειαζόμαστε νέο παράδειγμα όσον αφορά στο χώρο.
Στο πλαίσιο της βαθιάς πολιτικής πόλωσης και της αύξησης των οικονομικών
ανισοτήτων, ζητάμε από τους αρχιτέκτονες να αρχίσουν να φαντάζονται χώρους μέσα
στους οποίους μπορούμε να ζήσουμε μαζί, με αφθονία.»
Η Χαρά Χαρατσάρη παραθέτει έξι ενδιαφέρουσες προτάσεις βασισμένες στο Βιοφιλικό Σχεδιασμό (Biophilic Design) και την Οικολογική σκέψη.
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The 17th International Architecture Exhibition is open from
22 May to 21 November 2021 at the Giardini, Arsenale and Forte Marghera,
including 112 Participants in competition from 46 countries. The
Exhibition is organized
into five scales: Among
Diverse Beings, As New Households, As Emerging Communities, Across Borders, As
One Planet.
Installing the Biennale during the pandemic has forced participants to
work in a more collaborative and sustainable way in line with the event's key
themes, according to curator Hashim
Sarkis.
This year’s question ‘How will we live together?’, aims to answer the question by
asking participants to envision spaces where people’s from around the world can
come together, in order to share their solutions to global problems. As the
Curator says, “We need a new paradigm when it
comes to space. In the context of the widening political divide and rising
economic inequality, we ask that architects start imagining spaces, within
which we can live together generously”.
A selection of six interesting proposals regarding Biophilic design and Ecological thinking are
described below, by Chara Charatsari.
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GIARDINI
NATIONAL PAVILIONS
Country: DENMARK
Title: CON-NE-CTED-NESS
Architects: Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects
Water
collected from the roof of the pavilion is made visible and tangible and flows
through the exhibition.
- Who knows where it has been before and
where it will go next?
- Who knows what other bodies,
countries, and centuries it has passed through?
The cyclical flow and immanent
boundlessness of water tie past, present, and future together and preclude any possibility
of isolating ourselves from each other, acknowledging that we are connected. The water carries time, disaster, life and
others. It flows through our shared
spaces.
From the outside, a wall made up of many potted herbs placed
on wooden shelves which creates a sort of counter-facade for the Danish
pavilion, invites the public to go into a warm, welcoming entrance space where
people could drink a complimentary cup of tea before following a rivulet
of water that enlarge progressively to become eventually a large reservoir.
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GIARDINI
NATIONAL PAVILIONS
Country: GREAT
BRITAIN
Title: The Garden of Privatised Delights
Architects: Unscene architecture
Why can’t all
public spaces be delightful? The British pavilion has been
transformed into the garden of privatised delights.
Inspired by the garden of earthly delights — the famous triptych oil painting by Hieronymus Bosch –, the exhibition commissioned by the british council takes
visitors on a journey through six immersive environments, each of which
explores the theme of privatized public space in the UK. Outdoor space
specifically was the only space we could safely come together in the last year. How
can we start to work both in private and public sectors to really open up
public spaces so that everyone can use them?
‘‘We were really inspired by the
triptych format of the painting and the two extremes of heaven and hell on
either side, and then this middle ground of earth in the center. in our version
of the painting, we looked at two extremes: the utopia before the inclosures
act of the 18th century, and then the dystopia of total privatization.’’
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SALE D'ARMI
NATIONAL PAVILIONS
Country: PERU
Title: Playground, Artefacts for Interaction
Architect: Felippe Ferrer
“Most of the
time, the things we don’t notice are the things right in front of our noses,
such as gates and what they represent.”
The project proposes removing the gates
enclosing public spaces throughout Lima
and Peru’s other urban centers, inviting residents to freely enter and
interact with the spaces. By removing these “security” mechanisms, which really
serve as tools of segregation, and installing benches, playgrounds, and soccer
fields, the project aims to divert all the energy, time, and resources put into
installing fences and channel it into bringing new life to these public spaces.
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ARSENALE
AS EMERGING COMMUNITIES
Title: ENTAGLED
KINGDOM
Architects: Doxiadis +
How will we
live together on this multispecies planet? By understanding, respecting, and
connecting to the web of entanglement that is life on Earth.
An unsung hero of this web is the
kingdom between plants and animals, that of the fungi. Creators and facilitators of life, fungi are as
resilient as rock and can turn rock into soil through edafogenesis. They
form mycelium networks making extraordinary sentient connections among trees.
They are recyclers, metabolizing the decomposing organic matter,
returning it to the biological circle. Without
them life on Earth cannot exist.
Entangled Kingdoms presents fungi spores
collected from the two rooms of the Arsenale cultivated in the mycology
department at University of Athens. At the Biennale, these return as a “fungi
garden” in a two-part installation. Having first placed humanity in the wider
context of the plant, animal and fungi kingdoms, this project invites reverent
reflection upon the complexity, beauty, and also invisibility and ubiquity of
fungi in the world around us.
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ARSENALE
AS EMERGING COMMUNITIES
Title: EGO
TO ECO
Architects: EFFEKT
“Ego to Eco” is
based on the idea of creating something with
a lasting positive impact, an approach we all ought
to apply to any temporary event held today to limit its environmental impact
and create something for the future.
In this installation, EFFEKT
demonstrates that all this is possible, and that an installation can be
educational, elegant and environmentally friendly, all at the same time.
The Nature
Village project, an example of how real estate
development can enable ecological restoration, and Build for Life, illustrating
the possibility of living in a more sustainable, connected, healthy way.
The most striking feature of “Ego to
Eco” is the circular idea inspiring the studio’s participation, in perfect
harmony with EFFEKT’s major focus on the environment.
In the heart of the installation is a
miniature forest of 1200 tree seedlings that will continue to grow throughout
the Biennale, thanks to a hydroponic cultivation system remote-controlled from
Copenhagen.
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ARSENALE
ACROSS BORDERS
Title: MIGRATING LANDSCAPES
Architects: VOGT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS
Migrating Landscapes consists of a
megastructure that works as a model of the city on which it stands: a topography
made of architecture.
The hard-pressed bricks that make up
this urban landscape are made of soil from different regions across Europe,
offering a sort of architectural, material mapping of a region whose flora,
like that of the world, is constantly changing. As the vegetation grows between the cracks of
this city model, architecture is transformed into landscape.
The installation not only maps the
territory through a deconstruction of its architecture, but also acts as a timeline of the changes in
vegetation undergone by the city of Venice. These are made visible in the form
of a faded planting scheme of non-native flora introduced to the city. The
project presents a synthetic history of ecological change and the manipulation
of land.
The urban landscape gives way to a rugged topography
accommodating the seeds of change, giving way to a new type of landscape that
reimagines the implicit relationship between landscape and architecture.
