DETAILS. ARCHITECTURE SEEN IN SECTION

 

The master degree course Architecture and Innovation, from the “Dipartimento di Progettazione e pianificazione in ambienti complessi” is joining the Biennale_Sessions with a project developed by the research unit The Art of Building. The project, open to all Iuav students, has been organized in the form of a seminar, with the aim of investigating the architectural language from the point of view of the constructive detail.

 

Biennale Architettura 2014, Sala delle Armi, Arsenale

Exhibition and seminars

8>10 July 2014

 

 

 

DETAILS. Architecture seen in section

a workshop organized by Umberto Trame (DPPAC) and Marco Pogacnik (DACC), Università Iuav di Venezia

 

 

a project by

Marco Pogacnik, Research Unit Arte del costruire – Art of Building, Università Iuav di Venezia

 

team

Andrea Ambroso, Iuav Venezia

Marco Capitanio, Zurich

Alberto Franchini, Iuav Venezia

Orsina Simona Pierini, DAStU, Politecnico Milano

Luka Skansi, Iuav Venezia

Claudia Tessarolo, Iuav Venezia

 

 

with the collaboration of the Iuav students

Elisa Tedeschi, Elena Rampin, Rodrigo Qyshka, Claudio Vianello, Veronica Zanusso, Fabio Pizzo, Francesca Martinelli, Sara Bortolato, Cristian Visintin, Elena Rampin, Francesca Camerin, Tobia Badoer

 

graphic design Luka Skansi

exhibition set-up Andrea Ambroso

catalogue-Giornale Iuav edited by Alberto Franchini

video Stefano Zara, Valeria Cusinato

 

 

> detail template – kengo kuma and associates

> the exhibition space  1  2  3  4  5

> invitation brochure

 

 

The master degree course Architecture and Innovation, of the Dipartimento di Progettazione e pianificazione in ambienti complessi participates to the Biennale_Sessions with a project developed within the research unit The Art of Building. The project, open to all Iuav students, has been organized in the form of a seminar, investigating the architectural language from the perspective of construction details.

 

Rem Koolhaas’ Venice Biennale, titled “Fundamentals”, deals with the basic components of  architectural language (i.e. door, window, ramp, etc.). Our research, rather than investigating the taxonomy of Fundamentals, focuses on their syntax. We suggest to investigate the syntax of the “architectonic sentence”: the joint where the façade relates to the roof, the window to the wall or the wall to the ceiling

The connection point of architectural elements and structural parts is always of special significance to the architect's work as well as to the observer's eye. The structural soundness of a building and the effectiveness of its expressive articulation depend on this point of connection.

 

The exhibition presents 200 construction details of post World War II buildings of special architectural relevance drawn by Iiuav students. A detail section can synthetically express the constructive and architectural quality of a building: its exterior cladding, skeleton and palette of materials, whether it is a load-bearing wall or a simple infill. The students were asked to work in scale 1:10 redrawing construction details and preparing a series of thematic panels presenting an overview of contemporary architecture.

 

The exhibition includes also original material from many architecture and engineering offices. The designers were asked to make a statement about their notion of details and the role they play in their daily practice. Among the offices that accepted to participate there are: Burkhalter-Sumi, Barkow-Leibinger, Kahlfeldt Architekten, Werner Sobek, Artec Wien, Hermann Czech, Boris Podrecca, Dominique Perrault, Miller & Maranta, Conzett Bronzini Gartmann, Pascal Flammer, Peter Maerkli, Carlos Ferrater OAB, Studio Valle, C+S Architects, Tezuka Architects, Kengo Kuma, Emilio Tuñón, Cino Zucchi Architetti, Bevk Perovic arhitekti, Shim + Sutcliffe, Park associati, Peripheriques Architects, Laps Architecture, Gigon/Guyer Architekten, Walt+Galmarini, Hild und K Architekten, Kahlfeldt Architekten, Labics, Elasticospa, Staufer+Hasler, Navarro Baldeweg Asociados.

 

Discussants to the seminar, 9th July 2014, 3 pm:

Prof. Arch. Pierre Alain Croset, Turin Polytechnic

Arch. Francesco Pagliari, “The Plan”

Ing. Olindo de Luca, Chief Operating Office Permasteelisa

 

All offices involved with the research are invited to join the tree-day event at the Biennale.

 

Mediapartner: “The Plan” architecture magazine, editor Nicola Leonardi