Initiatives / Experiments / Visions

Persistance

Principal author
UNULAUNU
Co-authors (team members)
Tudor Vlasceanu, Liviu Vasiu, Romina Grillo
Architecture office
UNULAUNU
Collaborators (team members)
Matei Vlasceanu, Ciprian Rasoiu, Tudor Vlasceanu, Liviu Vasiu, Romina Grillo
Project year
2018
Location
Belgrade, Serbia
Client
Kolektiv Gallery
Project description
For this exhibition we wanted to build architecture, rather than to exhibit architecture. We want that there is no mediation of representation between the work and the viewer. In architecture, that means scale one to one. This is a persisting thought process that underlines all of our work. Also, we want to challenge the ephemeral character that seems to be inbuilt in the common understanding of any exhibition. We feel that this character is sometimes, somehow to light for the scope at play. In short, our exhibition is an ensemble that will continue its life even after the exhibition is over. The design reflects this idea, thus proposing a montage of primary structural elements that can be put together in different configurations, that can serve either as the backbone of our current exhibition (one of the configurations), or as a daily support of Kolektiv studios activities: a bookshelf, a cabinet, a desk. (another configuration). The structural elements are as big as the current space allows them to be. This size together with their particular shape and the existing space, all work together to allow a few precise and structurally stable positions. In this way, together all the elements join forces to form something larger. Every piece, no matter how small, is indispensable for the whole project, without it, everything would fall. We always thought about this project as permanent addition, and like this the project gained in our minds some of that character we aim to insert in all of our architectural projects. We think our final answer to Kolektivs invitation is very much reflective of our unique way we see architecture to really be.
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For this exhibition we wanted to build architecture, rather than to exhibit architecture. We want that there is no mediation of representation between the work and the viewer. In architecture, that means scale one to one. This is a persisting thought process that underlines all of our work. Also, we want to challenge the ephemeral character that seems to be inbuilt in the common understanding of any exhibition. We feel that this character is sometimes, somehow to light for the scope at play. In short, our exhibition is an ensemble that will continue its life even after the exhibition is over. The design reflects this idea, thus proposing a montage of primary structural elements that can be put together in different configurations, that can serve either as the backbone of our current exhibition (one of the configurations), or as a daily support of Kolektiv studios activities: a bookshelf, a cabinet, a desk. (another configuration). The structural elements are as big as the current space allows them to be. This size together with their particular shape and the existing space, all work together to allow a few precise and structurally stable positions. In this way, together all the elements join forces to form something larger. Every piece, no matter how small, is indispensable for the whole project, without it, everything would fall. We always thought about this project as permanent addition, and like this the project gained in our minds some of that character we aim to insert in all of our architectural projects. We think our final answer to Kolektivs invitation is very much reflective of our unique way we see architecture to really be.
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