Inside the 16th Venice Biennale, the Italian Pavilion, whose organization was entrusted to the architect Mario Cuccinella, deals with a very current and dear topic for the peninsula. Considerations that range from "green" or political issues, such as the redevelopment of mountain centers, today increasingly abandoned by the younger generation. Problems of connection of the territory, from the rural to the citizen, that are strongly felt in Italy, but that can also be analyzed in other parts of the world, now more and more interconnected.
Mario Cuccinela invested in this project, constituting a collective that could design five different multifunctional and avant-garde buildings, able to face the problem of depopulation of urban areas and their relative lack of services. The themes he mentioned are: "The role of art and cultural heritage in cities, reconstruction and the relationship between temporariness and permanence, new spaces for health, mobility and tangible and intangible connections, the forest and the supply chain productive ".
The pavilion does not just want to be a sensitization towards the fragility of the Italian territory but tries to give an answer to this fragility. Architecture, in all its forms, seeks to respond to human needs, which in some aspects (the fundamental ones) always remain the same, but for the most part, they change from society to society, and from one historical period to another. The answers are felt in the quality of the projects presented and their common thread. An architectural project can no longer transcend aspects that integrate the territory in its spaces. The constructive processes, so dear to the period of modern architecture, today must still raise their revolutionary cry of symbiosis with society. A society, today's, which is understanding how important our ecosystem is, without which we can no longer live. Let's take an example of the exhibition: the project is located in the Casentino Forests of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines and wants to be a multi-hybrid building. The geometry used for the design is simple. Lamellar beech beams that find their geometric origin in the triangle and that come together with an invisible knot to give more visual continuity. The various volumes are placed on supports of different heights, adjustable according to the difference in level.
Integration with the territory, sustainability, technology. These are concepts that come back often and will come back more and more. Young architects can not stop at timid ideas of integration but must dare in symbiosis.
Eastern Alps
Comano Terme (TN)
Trentino-Alto Adige
Casa Riga with farmhouse
Casa Riga con agriturismo
In this project the characters of integration in the territory are evident. Frank Lloyd Wright will tell about Taliesin that the house was not on the hill, but of the hill. What an extraordinary reinterpretation of the American master. The skyline is not obstructed by broken lines that so much characterize the mountain landscapes, but there is a simple glazed cut from the valley. From the mountain, the green of the mountains. The entire structure is in exposed wood, including the flat roof that supports the lawn cover.
Alpi Orientali
Castelbello
Trentino-Alto Adige
Werner Tscholl, Architekt
Also in this project, we see those characters of union with nature. In this case, the symbiosis is total, and the walls themselves are rock. Mountain. It is only in this way that one can have an architecture that knows how to be simply beautiful.
The theme of simplicity is greatly felt in the Italian Pavilion.
Baroque or sculptural architectures that tend to extremes the limits of the physics of materials, they are useless. The beauty of architecture lies in its modesty, it is inherent in simplicity.
It is no coincidence that I really appreciate a project like the one conceived by Davide Fancello, in Sardinia, Dogali.
The concept is to frame the landscape in a "normal" bus stop. Bring the home environment in a place unrelated to the walls of our home. It should be noted that there are no benches, but only chairs to wait for the arrival of the buses. The object can immediately be traced back to the house, the house that the inhabitants of Dogali see from another perspective. A simple glass, a screen, a filter stands between the observer and the object. It urges all of us to consider this problem: the rural is disappearing.
We look at things from a filter and we do not realize that it is time to patch up. To place. To reconcile. What? The big (the metropolis) with the small (the cities). Let's do it with simplicity and modesty.
Let's create simply beautiful spaces.
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