HM EX AEQUO AWARD

THE HEADQUARTERS, ICR ROMANIAN GALLERY AT BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 2016

location: Venice, Italy

architecture office: CRISAN ARCHITECTURE & ENGINEERING SRL

project, concept design: arch.Alexandru Crisan, arch.Ana Maria Crisan / collaborator: arch.Ioana Turcanu

EN:

PLAYGROUND | The HEADQUARTERS

Little Pavilion/ ICR Gallery/ Project Concept

A rezult. A continuation of the concept Ground 0 disclosed in the Romanian Pavilion, ICR Venice gallery space proposes a similar approach. If the Central Pavilion transposes the battlefield site resulted as a Playground where “battles for the leadership of the city” take place, such battles being generated by the semiotic field of the elements that allow multiple permutations according to perception, the gallery space was designed like a command bridge thereof, hereinafter its nomination as the HEADQUARTERS. This is the area where the important decisions related to the contextual disposition of the elements that will define some specific direction of the conceptual development will take place. The representation of the Headquarters takes specific elements from the Central Pavilion, namely two models representing tall buildings that are practical “swallowed” forcibly in the pavilion space, incorporating the existing pillars in the access area in the gallery. The orchestration of the possible games in the Romanian Pavilion is publicized in this exhibition space through a media presentation platform with projections from Pavilion’s Playground depicting aspects and variations of layouts for the scale models depending on the arrangement of separate methods, and the customized approach. Thus, the visitor is informed about events (Playground) which will take place in Giardinni Pavilion. Here he can receive cues about the Pavilion concept and documentary material that attracts him to visit the Biennale exhibition space. ICR space gallery shows in a simplified manner the outcome on a micro of the multiple permutations possible in the space of the Giardinni Romanian Pavilion. The simplified arrangement counts on the presence of the complex events taken out of the context and displayed in the Pavilion; it summarizes some of the defining elements of the architectural phenomenon in Romania. The two columns placed in the vicinity of the access area will be masked by the models of the two towers. On the side walls a story with reference to the tall buildings of the city will be presented. The topic of tall buildings was chosen in contrast with the space dimensions of ICR gallery; this is to highlight the discrepancy of the scale and the reported decontextualization existing space and neighbourhoods. Forced contextualizing in the city built limits is made explicit on a scale model presented in the exhibition. The walls are whitewashed while descriptions, diagrams and texts will be presented with black text. In the gallery is placed a table and 2 chairs for “advice” concerning architectural development issues and ways of composing, spatial decomposition and recomposition. The exhibition space of the ICR Gallery is 99% white.

PLAYGROUND | the HEADQUARTERS

Little Pavilion/ ICR Gallery/ Technical Description of the Project. The white scale models presented in ICR Gallery exhibition space are made on rigid wooden support on which sides are applied models in forex. The main model, showing areas of intervention in the urban tissue, is made of white plaster. The walls are painted in matt white. The floor of the Gallery stays as it is without significant changes. Similar to the intervention in Giardinni Pavilion at floor level, there will be text stickers applied locally and paintings reactive to light. The ceiling will be closed horizontally with drywall and painted in matt white snow. The exhibited pieces will be lighted through an independent facility.

RO:

Concursului naţional pentru selectarea proiectului care va reprezenta România la cea de-a 15-a ediţie a Expoziţiei Internaţionale de Arhitectură – la Biennale di Venezia

PLAYGROUND | the HEADQUARTERS

pavilionul Mic / Galeria ICR / Conceptul proiectului

O rezultanta. O continuare a conceptului Ground 0 prezentat in descrierea Pavilionului Romaniei, spatiul Galeriei Icr Venezia propune o abordare similara. Daca pavilionul mare transpune battlefield-ul concretizat sub foma Playground-ului in care au loc « batalii pentru suprematia orasului » generate de campul semiotic al elementelor care permit permutari multiple la nivelul campului perceptibil, spatiul galeriei a fost gandit asemanator unui punct de comanda al acestuia, numit in continuare The Headquarters sau Cartierul General. Acesta constituie locul in care au loc deciziile importante legate de dispunerea contextuala a elementelor ce urmeaza a defini conceptual o anumita directie specifica de dezvoltare. Reprezentarea Cartierului General preia elemente specifice Pavilionului Central, respectiv 2 machete reprezentand cladiri inalte care sunt asimilate fortat de spatiul pavilionar, ingloband stalpii existenti prevazuti in zona de acces a Galeriei. Orchestrarea jocurilor posibile in cadrul Pavilionului Romaniei sunt mediatizate in acest spatiu expozitional prin intermediul unei platforme media de prezentare cu proiectii din cadrul Pavilionului infatisand aspecte ale Playground-ului si al variantelor de dispunere al machetelor in functie de metodele distincte, personalizate de abordare. Astfel, vizitatorul este informat despre evenimentele (playground-ul) ce urmeaza a avea loc in Pavilionul din Giardini. Tot aici poate primi repere legate de conceptul Pavilionului si materiale documentare care sa il atraga sa viziteze spatiul expozitional din Bienala. Galeria spatiului Icr prezinta intr-o forma simplificata rezultatul la scara (micro) al permutarilor multiple posibile din cadrul spatiului Pavilionului Romaniei din Giardini. Amenajarea simplificata mizeaza pe prezenta decontextualizata a evenimentelor complexe expuse in cadrul Pavilionului si prezinta sintetic cateva dintre aspectele definitorii ale conturarii evolutiei fenomenului arhitectural in Romania. Cele 2 coloane amplasate in proximitatea spatiului de acces vor fi mascate de machetele celor doua turnuri. Pe peretii laterali va fi prezentata una dintre povestile orasului cu referire la cladirile inalte. In contrast cu dimensiunile spatiului Galeriei Icr a fost ales subiectul cladirilor inalte pentru a evidentia discrepanta legata de scara si decontextualizarea raportata spatiului existent si vecinatatilor. Contextualizarea fortata in cadrul orasului raportat limitelor edificate este explicitata pe o macheta de caz prezentata in cadrul exxpozitiei. Peretii vor fi zugraviti in alb iar descrierile, diagramele si textele vor fi prezentate cu text negru. In galeriei este amplasata o masa si 2 scaune pentru « consiliere » in probleme legate de dezvoltarea arhitecturala si modalitatile de compunere, recompunere si descompunere spatiala. Spatiul expozitional al Galeriei Icr va fi 99% alb.

PLAYGROUND | the HEADQUARTERS

Pavilionul Mic / Galeria ICR / Descrierea tehnica a proiectului. Volumele albe prezentate in cadrul spatiul expozitional al Galeriei Icr sunt realizate pe support rigid din lemn pe fetele caruia sunt aplicate machetelor realizate din forex. Macheta centrala cu indicarea zonelor de interventie la nivelul tesutului urban este realizata din ipsos alb. Peretii sunt zugraviti in culoare alb mat. Pardoseala Galeriei se pastreaza in forma existenta fara interventii semnificative. Similat interventiei la nivelul pardoselii in Pavilionul Giardini, si acesta va beneficcia de inscrisuri aplicate local prin autocolant si vopseluri reactive la lumina. Tavanul va fi inchis orizontal prin placare cu gips carton si zugravit in alb zapada mat. Iluminatul pieselor prezentate se va realiza printr-o instalatie independenta.

texts: Ana Maria Crisan & Alexandru Crisan