Milan: FF
2013 – State University of Milan - Interni Hybrid Architecture and Design
installations. One of the main events of Milan FF was in the courtyards of the
State University of Milan, under the aegis of Interni magazine, was the major exhibition-event on the theme
Hybrid Architecture and Design, focusing on the idea of métissage in
architecture and design. This concept, seen as hybridization, is interpreted as
an encounter of cultures and technologies. The approach to the theme is made by
a group of internationally acclaimed architects and designers, whose work
stands out for its content of research and innovation. They express their
visions in an evocative, spectacular way, through installations, experimental
micro-architectural pavilions or macro-objects, with the support of companies
in the avant-garde in the fields of materials, technology and environmental
sustainability.
Above:
Golden River – Speech Tchoban and Kuznetsov and Marco Bravura with Arch-Skin. A
pair of long undulated elements that float into each other, forming a large
arch: entirely clad in gold mosaic, the work is then decorated with “cotissi”
blocks of glass left over from the crucibles of Venetian glassworks, to combine
art, architecture and design in a single entity.
Interni
Hybrid Architecture and Design installations. Beyond the Wall (detail) – Daniel
Libeskind with Cosentino Group. “Architecture is a language capable of telling
the story of the soul.” The installation is based on the infinite possibilities
of the spiral: a polycentric structure reaching upward amidst dynamic grafts of
geometric planes. The facing is in the
special Silestone bacteriostatic quartz in the new Suede finish, with a fractal
motif similar to the Golden Section: a modern concept.
Interni
Hybrid Architecture and Design installations. Sguardi Indiscreti – Michele De
Lucchi with Safilo. A wooden house with beams and posts in lamellar fir, to
express the potential of interaction between classicism and technology, with
one hundred bas reliefs on the outside, in plaster, of faces, bands and noses,
reproduced from masterpieces of classical sculptures: some of the wearing
eyeglasses, through which it is possible to look at the technological heart of
the installation, which narrates the world and production of eyewear.
Interni
Hybrid Architecture and Design installations. Inversion – Steven Holl with
Pimar, Teuco Guzzini and Ferragamo Parfums.
Six sculptures, weighing over one ton each, made with blocks of Lecce
stone. Digitally cut with five-axis
numerically controlled machine, the forms correspond to hollow blocks and their
removed solids: a reflecting pool shows
the forms upside-down.
Interni
Hybrid Architecture and Design installations. Hooked Up – Dean Skira with
iGuzzini. A passage with a double truncated pyramid form where light is applied
as in a ‘tissue of contact' between inside and outside, present and
future. The structure functions as a
device with a series of vertical and horizontal openings, designed to let
natural light enter, while at the same time projecting columns of intangible
light into the space, transforming the environment into a delicate light
source.
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