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IaN+ | Luca Galofaro (*1965) | Carmelo Baglivo (*1964) | Stefania Manna (*1969) |
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INTERZONE There is a common matrix in the movement of culture, which at a certain point makes paint, music, dance move in the same form as the ones in which the sciences are moving. Einstein writes that in the new physics there is no place for matter, as the field (that is energy tensions) is the only reality and there is nothing else, nothing else to talk about. Architecture is a whole of energy fields connected to time, their organisation produces space. Some years ago during a lesson Dino Formaggio reasoned on the idea of architecture as the art of time trying to overcome the idea of architecture as the art of space. Usually the architectonic space has always been considered as a static space, static in it's being an object and container. At this point time enters as a mere control variable which encloses in its deeper meaning the conquest of movement, therefore space has to be conceived in a different way, as a structure in the process of becoming. The planning process has to be considered in it's essence, that is in transformation, tied to different parameters able to highlight the incessant and continuous metamorphosis, to indicate and underline this movement and these transformations; it enriches the architectonic product with new and unexpected qualities ; the substance is shown through deeper and rooted reasons ; life is again the main concern of the man who organises space ; the architect regains his role. To think of an architecture in movement is restrictive, it is the process which has to be considered in movement. The notion of time changes within us as has the concept of form, passing from the culture of being to the one of becoming. The form does not represent neither a starting point nor a finishing point, but a managing system ; the direction is to fix some parameters through which to prime a self producing dynamic, to introduce in the project elements capable to start the process. These elements are the activity zones : which represent the daily actions, and the fluxes : which point out the real and virtual movements between the activities, both are in tight correlation and able to shape the space. The different activities are separated, interconnected through the limits. Seen as crossing and meeting points, the limits circumscribe the field of action ; they are not lines defined by constant thickness but expand becoming exchange interzones. The interzone becomes the point of maximum visibility, of coagulum and concentration of experiences. Once these parameters are indicated it is necessary to regulate and organise them in the void, transforming the traces of movement into architectonic spaces.(…)These invisible elements exist and are the true matrix of the buildings, of the cities and of the space surrounding us, all we have to do is find them and seize every passage so as to render them visible in the end. IaN+ |
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The initial gesture in the project for Goethe's House was a formal reflection on the space of the house, not on the static shape or form of the architecture, but a study of the possible variations of the spaces of the house through transformations of form. In fact, in his work in scientific research, Goethe studied the metamorphosis of form. Conscious of the historical signification of this term, IaN+, however, take Goethe's interest in changing form as a starting point whereby they might reflect on the transition of form from one shape to another. They use the action of the transition of form to define the space of the house. The building starts as a simple abstract container that distends, contracts, in continual change through human use, as a registration of human presence and desire. IaN+ have sought to de-emphasize the force of gravity by eliminating the clear division between floors, ceilings and walls. The spatial continuum expresses the flux of vital forces in the house as a living organism might. |
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The building is open even if its perimeter is not completely permeable but flexible and unstable, permitting an adjustable connection with the surrounding city. On the front side of the building the screen wall represents the strongest mean of communication. Meeting the demands of the tender which required a plenary session hall for about 10 000 persons, without using the principal hall of 3 000 seats, IaN+ transformed the whole building into an assembly hall. At each floor there is a part of service areas, conference halls, vertical connections, orga-nised as a solid block, and a flexible area free to be organised in a different way according the needs and the type of congress. The overlapped levels at variable heights in front of the services areas becomes a terraced system that will permit the 10 000 participants to take part to the plenary assembly by means of its projection on a screen. The hall is organised in a vertical way as the Italian theatres. In its interior solid and void have the same value, as both locate an exact field of action, where the acti-vities guide the configuration of the architecture. |
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The "white-hot magma" is a whole constituted by points of energy continuously rising up and disappearing. The never-ending flowing of lava escaves and shapes a matter always changing so that it's the energy to model space. Like inside the magma, flows entail the taking shape of this architecture and they give order to the space. Order looses its character of permanence and becomes one of the pos-sible interpretations, an instantaneous and subjective reading, a fragile sureness co-ming out from unforseeability and chaos. The space into which one move is defined by superimposition of orders, by juxtapo-sition of changeable frequency sources. Borders disappear, edges becomes mobile, reality is ruled by flows, intersections are points of accumulation. Regarding the buil-ding spatial organization, there are three main zones which are put near and in relation by mutual exchanges of energy and flows. Spatial separation makes every zone autonomous but at the same time lets the different zones have a physical and mental exchange between offices functions and entertainment functions of the Spatial Agency. |
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In this project, IaN+ mix low-density single family homes, each with their own garden, with high-density housing. Rather than the separate elements appearing as a heterogeneous mixture of different types, the various elements are then reassembled in a 7-meter thick slab. Open landscape and gardens and the high and low density residential elements are combined within this block. As an urban strategy, this system of landscape levels is best considered as a high density system and not as an isolated building ; in fact by increasing the density of the single slabs, the buildings are transformed into vertical landscapes. The solid and void are merged into the one element and are equally important. Like John Cage who discussed the presence of silence in his compositions as the "nothing in between", IaN+ consider that void and solid have the same importance. In this project, the gaps in the structure are not simply an absence in the presence of the matter but actual force fields. These fields would enable the building to blend. |
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Fondation
Mies van der Rohe |
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In this project, IaN+ used topological maps to analyze activities. They are not used to provide exact locations for singular activities divided into horizontal bands of use which correspond to separate floor plans. In fact, the diagrams indicate that the activity areas flow from level to level, as if the reference coordinates do not obey the force of gravity. This flowing vertical system, where one activity flows into another vertically as well as horizontally, in a non-specific indication of spatial activities is seen as a metaphor for working in a way that follows the fluidity of Miesian space. Our project is therefore a vertically developed building where all activities are distributed throughout the entire given space and expands in all directions. The building is a void that is filled with human activity. The void becomes the real substance of the dynamic space, in a dissolution of dialectial opposite. |
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Luca Galofaro (1965) 1990
– Diplôme d'Architecture, Université de Rome "La Sapienza"
Principaux projets et réalisations 2000
– "Siège administratif de l'Agence Spatiale Italienne"
Rome (concours international) ; "Edifice pour la recherche scientifique"
Université de Rome "Tor Vergata" (en cours) ; "Quartier Résidentiel"
64 unités résidentielles, Rome (en cours)
Principales publications de IaN+ 2000
– "Rem Koolhaas. Avant-pop architecture" Kappa Edition, Rome (à
paraître) ; "Eero Saarinen" éditions Bruno Zevi -Testo &
Immagine, section architecture (à paraître) ; "GSW Headquarter,
Berlin" L'industria delle Costruzioni n°341
Bibliographie récente 2000
– "Vision d'avenir" Il Progetto n°6, Rome |
