The Swarm Project is a proposal for a new architecture for the times to come. It is a eulogy to lightness for a sustainable, conscious and respectful future. The exhibition, conceived by the architecture studios blueArch and Arkpabi in collaboration with metro Q Engineering, stages a simple but, at the same time and in its own way, revolutionary guiding thought.
The Swarm represents an innovative, energetically sustainable, non-destructive and non-intrusive settlement model, in general for beautifully unspoilt places and in particular for the natural territories of Africa to come. A geologically ancient territory, but at the same time a unique and unrepeatable human, anthropological and cultural laboratory to be preserved and respected. The Swarm Project, in fact, does not alter or injure, nor does it change or intervene on the natural morphology, it simply approaches it with the respectful delicacy of a flock of large birds, ready to take flight for other future destinations.
The exhibition is divided into two large rooms: in the first room a model of the ‘Nomad‘ house is displayed, resting on a large mirrored steel plate and surrounded by two L-shaped walls made entirely of mirrors. Here we also find 11 backlit glass panels on which are transparently printed concepts, drawings, images and renderings explaining The Swarm project. The second room houses large watercoloured pictorial style prints of projects by the Arkpabi and blueArch architecture studios, and other highly polished aluminium depictions on which photographs and renderings are displayed. The shop windows in the location have been covered with a coloured film: blue/blue for those facing the seafront and red/orange for those facing Corso Garibaldi. Inside, the lights are also blue and orange to give the exhibition a metaphysical atmosphere.
blueARCH – Alessandro Costanzia di Costigliole and Alberto Montesi architects
blueARCH – Alessandro Costanzia di Costigliole and Alberto Montesi architects, has been committed since its foundation to the central theme of man in his habitat and in his vital space, which rotates from the small dimensions of individual furnishings to those of interior design, from themes from office design and retail, up to large residential themes such as individual villas and larger real estate development complexes, in the urban and tourist fields, in Italy and abroad, up to the recent themes of sustainable urban planning large in Canada and, recently, in Florida.
ARKPABI | GIORGIO PALU’ E MICHELE BIANCHI ARCHITETTI
ARKPABI – Giorgio Palù and Michele Bianchi architects was born in ’94, realizing public and private works, tackling projects with an approach based on architectural research, technical-material experimentation and technological innovation. He deals with architecture, creating buildings for the tertiary sector, hospitality, industrial and residential architecture. The DelleArti design Hotel project in London in 2002 won the Architectural Award as Best New Hotel in the international competition The European Hotel Design Award ’02. In 2016 the studio won the XXIV ADI Compasso d’Oro Award with the “Giovanni Arvedi Auditorium”.
METRO Q ENGINEERING
It operates in the field of integrated design, a sector where it carries out the activities of design, construction supervision, design of survey campaigns and monitoring of structures, structural and anti-seismic design, plant engineering, energy saving, cost and procedural analysis . Metro Q has developed its own organizational structure to ensure business results through the effective and efficient use of company resources, sharing with its customers the objective of carrying out the assigned projects in accordance with their wishes, in compliance with the times and costs.
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Official Vernissage: Friday 26 MAY 4.00 p.m.
LOCATION
Gallery Castello 1636 30122 – Venice (Riva degli Schiavoni)
OPENING HOURS
from 23-05-23 to 12-08-23 11.00 – 19.00 Tuesday to Sunday
