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Enric Ruiz-Geli
Enric Ruiz-Geli
DipWith a degree from the ETSAB in Barcelona, Enric Ruiz-Geli completed
his training abroad (Mississippi State University, USA; Urbino, Italy; Tel
Aviv, Israel) and specialized in set design (Institute of Theatre, Barcelona;
La Villette, Paris). He was assistant to the "Master of Ephemeral Architecture"
(Elisava School and ETSAB), but also worked as an associate with Bob Wilson,
and was co-author of Spek, a "macroplaystation" game creating
new territories. And it's probably in the virtual--place of movement, interactivity
and the ephemeral--that his architecture of the natural finds its bases.
His proposals for the Berlin Zoo thus grapple with essential issues of ecological
architecture: re-creation, imitation and presentation, somewhere between
immersion in "nature" and constructed, educational, managed place.
The biodiversity home extends the idea of Darwinian evolution in its structure,
stringing porticos together like so many significant "events".
The huge aviary puts across a line of thinking about interaction between
people and their environment, observer and observed, inside and out--at
once a huge artificial tree and a new "natural" topography of
seaside dunes.