Installazione “Pensando L’Aquila”
Wooden scaffolding inserted between the arches in the cloister of the University of Milan: this is the AMDL CIRCLE installation for the “Mutant Architecture & Design” event during the Fuorisalone. The idea came about from a visit by Michele De Lucchi to L’Aquila after the catastrophic earthquake in 2009. In an attempt to save the buildings, the firefighters had built wooden consolidation structures between the cracks in the historic architecture. The heroic beauty of these structures amid the wounded buildings is reproduced among the arcades of the main cloister of the Ca' Granda as a homage to the firefighters’ expertise and an invitation not to forget how fragile life can be on Earth. These structures are an architecture on an architecture and, if it were not for the tragic reference, an evocative art installation. The relationship of wood with stone is humble and grandiose: the joists bear the enormous weight of the imposing building structures while the geometrical...
Read moreWooden scaffolding inserted between the arches in the cloister of the University of Milan: this is the AMDL CIRCLE installation for the “Mutant Architecture & Design” event during the Fuorisalone. The idea came about from a visit by Michele De Lucchi to L’Aquila after the catastrophic earthquake in 2009. In an attempt to save the buildings, the firefighters had built wooden consolidation structures between the cracks in the historic architecture. The heroic beauty of these structures amid the wounded buildings is reproduced among the arcades of the main cloister of the Ca’ Granda as a homage to the firefighters’ expertise and an invitation not to forget how fragile life can be on Earth. These structures are an architecture on an architecture and, if it were not for the tragic reference, an evocative art installation. The relationship of wood with stone is humble and grandiose: the joists bear the enormous weight of the imposing building structures while the geometrical design of this frame is in dialogue with the arcades, columns and reliefs sculpted on the stone.
- Humanistic Architecture and Design
- Humanistic Architecture and Design
- Humanistic Architecture and Design
- Humanistic Architecture and Design
- Humanistic Architecture and Design